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Topic: African Geography
Objectives
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Students will be able to use a political map of Africa and correctly locate different countries, comprised by the facilitator.
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Students will be able to describe from a teacher-selected region of African at least three examples of how the selected group has interacted with and adapted to their environment.
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Students will be able to use a physical map of Africa to correctly name at least five major rivers and two major lakes (of their choice), and the Sahara Desert.
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Students will be able to locate the Nile River on a map of Africa.
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Students will be able to accurately describe the importance of the Nile River to Egypt through a short answer format.
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Students will be able to accurately identify, from memory, key European countries that came to colonize Africa.
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Students will be able to compare and contrast similarities and differences that the African geography has with the United States.
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Students will be able to identify a minimum of five important natural resources to Africa.
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Students will be able to identify at least two characteristics of Africa's main regions, as identified by the instructor in class.