1. How is the Nile River important to Africa?
SS7G1: The student will locate selected features of Africa.
Sahara, Sahel, savanna, tropical rain forest, Congo River, Niger River, Nile River, Lake Tanganyika, Lake Victoria, Atlas Mountains, and Kalahari Desert
Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Sudan, & South Sudan
Africa’s Geography

2. Where is the Nile River located?
Watch the video: People of the Nile: Life on the World’s Longest River
Read the Nile River Passage

3. How is the Nile River important to Africa?
Ticket Out the Door
How is the Nile River important to Africa?

4. How do people, live, work, and travel in the Sahara Desert, savanna, and Sahel?
How do you think these words relate to today’s essential question? Make a prediction on your paper.

5. What is the Sahara?
Characterisitics of the savanna, the Sahel, and Sahara in Africa
Video: Fearless Planet: Sahara

6. Graffiti Write
How do people live, work, and travel in the Sahara Desert?
Directions:
Each row/group has a sheet of white paper.
Everyone in the row/group must write on the paper.
Be sure everyone has room!
Once everyone has written an answer to the EQ, one person from the group will add the sheet to the chart paper on the board.

7. The Sahel Crisis - One Year On
How do people, live, work, and travel in the Sahara Desert, savanna, and Sahel?
Read the article:
The Sahel Crisis - One Year On
Each group will be assigned one topic to illustrate and explain to the class.
Article:

8. Summarize the lesson… 3 characteristics of the Sahel
2 things learned from the article the beginning of class
1 sentence to summarize how the article related to the video

9. How do people, live, work, and travel in the Sahara Desert, savanna, and Sahel?
SS7G3: The student will explain the impact of locations, climate, and physical characteristics on population distribution in Africa.

10. What is the savanna?
Using your knowledge of the Sahara and the Sahel, make a prediction of what may set the Savanna apart from these two physical features found in Africa.
You may write a definition or create an illustration to represent your idea of a savanna.

11. Compare & Contrast… Can you distinguish the similarities and differences in the Sahel, savanna, and Sahara?
Think back over the past few days in Social Studies.
Review your notes, reading materials, and worksheets.
Identify specific characteristics of the following:
The Sahel
Savanna
Sahara

12. How do people, live, work, and travel in the Sahara Desert, savanna, and Sahel?
SS7G3: The student will explain the impact of locations, climate, and physical characteristics on population distribution in Africa.

13. Why is it important to understand the characteristics of physical features in Africa?
Use the graphic organizer provided by the teacher to highlight specific characteristics of the Sahel, savanna, and Sahara.
How people dress
What animals are found in these areas
The water supply in these areas

14. Now it’s your turn…
Imagine if you lived in one of the areas discussed this week in class.
Choose one of the regions of Africa and write a narrative as if you live there.
What would your life be like?
How would you travel?
What would you eat? How would you get your food?
What is your way of life like in this area?