Step 5. Give students Handouts 1, 2, and 3. Look over Handout 1 together and
then set students to work independently, or work through map exercise as a
whole class.
Step 6. Once the maps and Handout 1 have been completed and discussed,
have students look at Handout 2 together. Students should complete Question 1
together in pairs.
Step 7. Check student work together as a whole class. Students should have
made the following distinctions:
Djibouti, Éthiopie, Guinée, Somalie, Soudan, Burkina Faso,
Mali, Mauritanie, Niger, Tchad
Burundi, Kenya, Ouganda, Rwanda, Tanzanie
Cap-Vert, Gambie, Guinée-Bissau, Libéria, Sénégal, Sierra
Léone, Bénin, Côte d' Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria, Togo
Afrique du Sud, Botswana, Lesotho, Namibie, Swaziland,
Angola, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambie, Zimbabwe
Cameroun, Centrafrique, Congo, République
Démocratique du Congo,, Gabon, São Tomé-et-Principe
Step 8. Students should then complete Handout 2 either during the remainder of
class or as homework. Debrief questions together in class afterwards, or the
following day. Some distinctions to make are:
Au niveau de l'équateur, l’Afrique a un climat équatorial caractérisé
par des forêts humides. Le Gabon, le Cameroun, le Centrafrique, et la
Guinée équatoriale en sont quelques examples.
En Afrique, il y a des saisons sèches, et la forêt fait peu à peu place
aux savanes, puis aux zones désertiques. Cela fragilise grandement
l'écologie.
Les pluies se répartissent irrégulièrement sur le continent, avec des
zones où les précipitations sont très importantes et d'autres où elles
restent insuffisantes.
Step 9. Fill out the “L” section of the KWL chart with students for Activity 1.
Materials
Students should have access to atlases and/or computers. Large pieces of
butcher paper and marking pens are needed for the KNL (Know, Want to Know,
Learned) chart. Students will need graph paper to complete Handout 2.