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TERM/WEEKS: 2 YEAR LEVEL: 4 LEARNING AREA/TOPIC: Humanities and Social AUSTRALIAN CURRICULUM
Science – Geography
General Capabilities:
Literacy Numeracy ICT Critical and creative Ethical Behaviour Personal and social Intercultural
thinking Competence Understanding
Cross-curriculum priorities:
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and Asia and Australia’s engagement with Asia Sustainability
Cultures
 West Australian SPECIFIC LESSON
Curriculum OBJECTIVE
WEEK/ LINKS
LESSON
Week 2 ACHASSK087 Recognise that Africa is made
Lesson up of many different countries.
1 Each student must select either
Egypt, Tanzania or Kenya to
explore.
Identify and discuss in groups
their knowledge about Africa and
create a word cloud via group
collaboration, and post it to the
classroom Google Slides
website.
Create a map of Africa outlining
the students’ country they have
selected to research and post it
to the classroom Google Slides
website.
ASSESSMENT TEACHING & LEARNING RESOURCES = ICT and
(what & how) EXPERIENCES other
(Introduction, Body and Conclusion)
Introduction: First lesson in the series Introduction: YouTube video
15 facts about Africa [Video
Welcome to Africa file]. Retrieved from:
o Over the next three lesson the students will each plan a https://www.youtube.com/wa
trip to Africa. During these three lessons the students will tch?v=
create a detailed project about Africa, including where qb8VebjRfBk
Africa is located, the types of landforms and animals
found in Africa and how they would get there from Perth. Word cloud, using a word
Formative The fourth lesson will be a presentation were students cloud creator such as Word
Assessment: will present their online project to the class. Art. *Students are to save
and screen shot a copy of
Word Art snipped o Ensure students can differentiate between countries and their word cloud and add it
and recorded on continents – refresh their memory by having a world map to their Explain Everything
the online class up on the screen. App and to the shared online
power point o Begin a teacher led whole classroom discussion classroom PowerPoint. They
will use a snipping tool.
(Google Slides).  Has anyone been to Africa before?
 Was anyone born in Africa or have family members Online PowerPoint such as
who were? Google Slides to be utilised
by the entire class
 What are some things that come to mind when you throughout all three lessons.
think of Africa? Teacher will also refer to this
 Watch a video about Africa for assessments.
Body:
Diagnostic Activity 1
Assessment: o Students will in groups create a word cloud outlining Interactive online quiz:
Results recorded everything they think they know about Africa. The word Kahootz quiz
in a quiz. Used at cloud needs to be in a shape that they associate with
the beginning of Africa.
the lesson to o Students will then participate in a short Kahootz Quiz
determine testing their knowledge of Africa.
students’ prior
knowledge of the Activity 2: Interactive world map
topic. o Direct students to the National Geographic MapMaker information:
and ask them to locate Africa. https://mapmaker.
nationalgeographic.org/
o Begin a teacher-led discussion:
 What do you notice about the continent of Africa?
Formative
 How many countries do you think Africa has? Google maps website links
assessment: of the three countries that
 What oceans surround Africa?
Observe student students can choose from
 What other continents are close by? for their project:
responses to
o Students will be asked to select an African country from
questions posed
during discussion the three options provided (Egypt, Tanzania or Kenya).
Kenya:
time. Assess o Based on their choice, students will then explore the URL https://www.google.ie
participation link associated with that country which is found on the /maps/about/behind-the-
levels and lesson page (the link will direct them to an interactive scenes/streetview/treks/sam
website where they can watch a video, see images and buru-kenya/
whether
scaffolding is go on a virtual tour of their chosen country). Egypt:
o Using the Explain Everything Application ask students to https://www.google.ie