Integrated Literacy Assignment

SST 309-02Seth Martin

Winter, 2014

GLCE’s

7-G2.1.1: Describe the landform features and the climate of the region (within the Western or Eastern Hemispheres) under study.

I chose to focus my study on the continent of Africa.

Websites

http://exploringafrica.matrix.msu.edu/teachers/curriculum/m16/activity1.php◦ This website is filled with beneficial information about the

different landform features of Africa. http://

www.worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/afland.htm◦ This website has a few maps of Africa that labels where some

of these landforms are located and also gives brief descriptions about these landforms.

http://education.nationalgeographic.com/education/encyclopedia/africa-physical-geography/?ar_a=1◦ Another filled with beneficial information and also a variety of

different pictures from all over the continent.

Lesson Plan

Lesson Plan

http://gomaisa-public.rubiconatlas.org/Atlas/Browse/View/Map?BackLink=Atlas_Browse_View_Curriculum&_bl_BrowseByItemType=&_bl_BrowseByItemID=&_bl_CourseFilter=&_bl_NowViewing=Atlas_Browse_View_Curriculum&_bl_OrderBy=&_bl_OrderDirection=&CurriculumMapID=790&YearID=2014&SourceSiteID=

Books

Poetry

Across the Sahara

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/across-the-sahara/

Primary Sources

Sahara Desert, 1910-1915

Primary Sources

Nile River, 1890-1900

Video

Video that shows the surrounding land features of the Nile River.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjdOlv82kPE

Maps

Maps

Songs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJhfYZwQbWc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1PuMBcmtDI

Videos from a 6th grade class about the Nile River to the soundtrack of Drake’s “Started From the Bottom” and Ylvis’s “What the Fox Say”

Games

Interactive game to test students knowledge of different landform features of Africa

http://www.purposegames.com/game/africa-landforms-and-waters-quiz

Citations

http://exploringafrica.matrix.msu.edu/teachers/curriculum/m16/activity1.php http://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/afland.htm http://education.nationalgeographic.com/education/encyclopedia/africa-physical-geography/?

ar_a=1 http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/across-the-sahara/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJhfYZwQbWc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1PuMBcmtDI http://www.purposegames.com/game/africa-landforms-and-waters-quiz http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ggb2004010738/ http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/ppmsca.03029/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjdOlv82kPE http://

www.teachtci.com/programs/middle-school/geography-alive-textbook/regions-and-people/table-of-contents.html

London, J. (1997). Ali: Child of the desert. New York, NY: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books. http://gomaisa-public.rubiconatlas.org/Atlas/Browse/View/Map?

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