Objectives
Students will:
•Be able to name and locate the five featured African countries
•Be able to name and locate a geographic feature that influenced human activity in each featured country and describe the nature of that influence
•Appreciate the range of physical and cultural diversity found in Africa
•Employ visual thinking to deepen their understanding of each featured object
•Be able to identify a variety of types of historical sources and use them to draw conclusions about each featured object
•Understand how interactions between cultures contribute to cultural change over time and illustrate that point with examples from the featured objects
Standards
MN Social Studies Standards: Geography
Eyes on Africa addresses the following substrands and standards:
Substrand 1: Geospatial Skills
Standard 1 People use geographic representations and geospatial technologies to acquire, process and report information within a spatial context.
Substrand 2: Places and Regions
Standard 3 Places have physical characteristics (such as climate, topography and vegetation) and human characteristics (such as culture, population, political and economic systems).
Substrand 3: Human Systems
Standard 6 Geographic factors influence the distribution, functions, growth and patterns of cities and human settlements.
Substrand 4: Human Environment Interaction
Standard 9 The environment influences human actions; and humans both adapt to, and change, the environment.
MN Social Studies Standards: History
Substrand 1: Historical Thinking Skills
Standard 2 Historical inquiry is a process in which multiple sources and different kinds of evidence are analyzed to draw conclusions about how and why things happened in the past.
Substrand 2: Peoples, Cultures and Change Over Time
Standard 4 The differences and similarities of cultures around the world are attributable to their diverse origins and histories, and interactions with other cultures throughout time.
Substrand 3: World History
Standard 9 Post-Classical and Medieval Civilizations and Expanding Zones of Exchange: 600-1450
Standard 10 Emergence of the First Global Age
Standard 11 The Age of Revolutions: 1750-1922
Standard 12 A Half Century of Crisis and Achievement, 1900-1950
Standard 13 The World After World War II: 1950-1989
Standard 14 The New Global Era: 1950-Present