SLM - Unit 6 – Africa
Key Learning
Governments are organized differently in each nation; can impact a nation’s economic, cultural, and historical development; influence
the impact society has on its environment; exercise some control over production, distribution and consumption of goods/services
produced by society (which are also affected by location, customs, and beliefs).
Unit EQ
1. How are governments organized differently in each nation?
2. What impact can a government have on a nation’s economic, cultural, and historical development and how is society
influenced?
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Concept
Concept
Concept
Geography/Environmental
Issues/Culture
(SS7G1, SS7G2, SS7G3, SS7G4)
History
(SS7H1)
Government/Economics
(SS7CG1, SS7CG2, SS7CG3,
SS7E1, SS7E2, SS7E3)
Lesson EQ’s
Lesson EQ’s
Lesson EQ’s
Where are the following geo-political
features located on a map: the Sahara,
Sahel, savanna, tropical rain forest, Congo
River, Niger River, Nile River, Lake
Tanganyika, Lake Victoria, Atlas
Mountains, Kalahari Desert of Democratic
Republic of the Congo (Zaire), Egypt, Kenya
Nigeria, South Africa, Sudan, and South
Sudan ?
How do water pollution and the unequal
distribution of water impact irrigation and
drinking water?
How have the characteristics in the Sahara,
Sahel, savanna, and tropical rain forest have
affected the population in terms of where
people live, the type of work they do, and
how they travel?
What is relationship between poor soil and
deforestation in Sub-Saharan Africa?
What is the impact of desertification on the
environment of Africa from the Sahel to the
rainforest?
How do the religions compare between the
various ethnic groups in Africa?
How has the literacy rate in Africa affected
the standard of living?
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How did European partitioning across Africa
contribute to conflict, civil war, and artificial
political boundaries?
How did nationalism lead to independence
in South Africa, Kenya, and Nigeria?
How did the Apartheid begin and end in
South Africa and what role did Nelson
Mandela and F.W. de Klerk play?
What was the Pan-African movement?
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.How do governments distribute power?
How do governments determine citizen
participation?
What are the characteristics of the two
primarily democratic governments?
How do the republic systems of government
in the Republic of Kenya and the Republic of
South Africa, distinguishing the form of
leadership and the role of the citizen in
terms of voting rights and personal
freedoms compare?
How did political, economic, and social
conflicts result in the independence of
South Sudan?
How do various factors, including gender,
affect access to education in Kenya and
Sudan?
What impact has the government stability
made on the distribution of resources to
combat AIDS and famine across Africa?
How do the economic systems of South
Africa and Nigeria compare to one another?
How does the how the distribution of
diamonds, gold, uranium and oil affect the
economic development of Africa?
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Vocabulary
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
Sahara, Sahel, savanna, tropical rain forest,
Congo River, Niger River, Lake Tanganyika, Lake
Victoria, Atlas Mountains, Kalahari Desert of
Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire), Egypt,
Kenya Nigeria, South Africa, Sudan, and South
Sudan. water pollution unequal water
distribution, silt, fertilizer, Aswan Dam,
deforestation, over-grazing, famine, drought,
Sub-Saharan Africa, desertification, Nile, Delta,
Green Line, nomads, caravans, oasis, semi-arid,
subsistence farming, Arab, Ashanti, Bantu,
Swahili, animism, Golden Stool
Partitioning, imperialism, colonization, indirect
rule, assimilation, Pan-African movement,
nationalism, Pan-African Congress, apartheid,
Nelson Mandela, F.W.de Klerk, African National
Congress
Dowry, civil war, AIDS, antiretroviral drugs
barter, free-enterprise, capitalism, laissez-faire,
continuum, corruption, political instability, tax,
protective tariff, exchange rate, CFA Franc,
Central African and West African, investment,
human capital, capital resources, poverty,
uranium, gold, diamonds, conflict diamonds,
command, market, traditional, mixed economy,
trade barrier, tariff, embargo, quota,
specialization, GDP