Lesson Plan SP Grade 7 SS Geography T1 W7&8

Directorate: Curriculum GET: LESSON PLAN TERM 1 - 2021
SUBJECT and GRADE SOCIAL SCIENCE – GRADE 7 GEOGRAPHY

TERM 1 Week 7-8
TOPIC Current events
AIMS OF LESSON To develop learners who are curious about the world they live in.
Learners who care about their planet and the well-being of all who live on it.
INTRODUCTION • Educator will put a map of the world on your classroom wall. Learners can bring cuttings of news items from
around the world to class. Pin each news item on the board surrounding the world map and run a string from
news item to the place on the map where it happened.
• Educator can also remind learners about lines of Latitude and longitude as they have learnt in grade 6.
SKILLS/CONCEPTS ✓ Collect and refer to information (including newspapers, books and where possible)
✓ Engage with issues relating to the planet, its people and
✓ Act responsible towards people and the environment
CONCEPTS
1. Current events-news about people and places that takes place in the present
2. Meridian- a specific line of longitude running down the globe
3. Nuclear-the use of energy produced by changes taking place in atoms.
4. Intensified-to become stronger, in this case, worse
5. Evacuated-to be to leave a place, usually in an emergency.
6. Tsunami – an enormous wave of sea water caused by an earthquake.
ACTIVITIES/ASSESSMENT ➢ Learners will make current events news board

➢ Record their own world events
➢ Locate places in the news using latitude and longitude
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CONSOLIDATION
Ask these questions about each of your news events and write down the answers. Here is an example above:
1. What happened?
=An explosion at a nuclear plant
2. Where did it happened?
= Fukushima, near Sendai, Japan
3. When did it happen?
= 14 March 2011
4. Why did it happen?
=Because of the earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan three days before.
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RESOURCES Paper based resources Digital resources
(if necessary) • Newspapers Refer to the relevant digital resources
• Books
• textbooks https://www.thelearningtrust.org/asp-treasure-box
NOTES
SUBJECT SOCIAL SCIENCE GEOGRAPHY TERM 1

GRADE 7 DATE 10- 19 March 2021
Teaching Methodologies/
Resources / LTSM
Skills Approach
(WHAT I am going to use to
(WHAT I am going to teach/guide/support…) (HOW I am going to
teach/guide/support…)
teach/guide/support…)
-Define concepts (like word scale, represent, Worksheet and Notes
globe) -Use IT to make your lesson IT, You Tube videos
-Ask learners to copy concepts in their books. more fun and enjoying Textbooks
-The teacher will put a map of the world on -Define all new concepts
your classroom wall. You can bring cuttings of
news items from around the world to class. Pin
TEACHER’S each news item on the board surrounding the
ACTIVITIES world map.
-Engage the learners in class discussions.
-Guide learners on activities that need to be
completed in the classroom or at home.
Similar to what teachers would teach, etc. as Could include tips to parents, magazines, newspapers,
indicated above – this could be a repeat of the e.g. Help your child search for a dictionary,
teacher’s info – just so that parents are aware of map to use with the weather
content. Keep it simple. report
-Learners must make use of

PARENT’S -Make time to listen to your child or children reads their personal dictionaries all the
ACTIVITIES and help them with their reading time when dealing with Social
-Ask them generally what they understand about Sciences concepts.
current events. (This is what is happening in their
daily lives.)
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-They can also look at YOU
TUBE videos about current
events.
Learner activities
➢ Learners will make current events news board

➢ Record their own world events
➢ Locate places in the news using latitude and longitude
LEARNERS
ACTIVITIES
ACTIVITY 1: Record your own world events
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Do this activity as a class:
1. Each week in class, select and talk about any recent world events or topics of interest.
2. Make a small card or label for each, like the ones shown on the map above, and stick the label onto a large map in your
classroom so everyone can see it
Activity 2: Locate places in the news using latitude and longitude

In Grade 6 you learnt how to give the position of places using latitude and longitude co-ordinates. Coordinates help us to locate
position more accurately on maps
1. Name a country where the 40°N and 100° E lines of longitude meet. What current events happened in this country that you
know?
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2. Which countries have the following coordinates?
a) 40° N 0° ____________________________________________________________
b) 10° S 50° W ____________________________________________________________
c) 20° S 50° E ____________________________________________________________
3. Which of these countries are in the news at present? Explain why?

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4. The country where the 10° N and the 50° E lines of longitude meet is often in the news. Name this country. Give one reason
why this country is in the news.
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5. Find a news story about a country in Africa.
a) Give the latitude and longitude of this country.
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b) Place your story on the news board.
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Directorate: Curriculum GET: LESSON PLAN TERM 1 - 2021

SUBJECT and GRADE SOCIAL SCIENCE – GRADE 7 GEOGRAPHY

ACTIVITIES/ASSESSMENT ➢ Learners will make current events news board

SUBJECT SOCIAL SCIENCE GEOGRAPHY TERM 1

-Learners must make use of

➢ Learners will make current events news board

ACTIVITY 1: Record your own world events

Activity 2: Locate places in the news using latitude and longitude

3. Which of these countries are in the news at present? Explain why?

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