West Africa Geography

April 8, 2015

Let’s Decorate!

• Drawing of your flag- make it BIG!• Name of country• Using your iPad, research 5 facts

about your country and put them on the back.

Alfan- Cape Verde Isabella- AlgeriaBraden- Botswana Diego- Cote d’IvoireBruce- The Gambia Malcolm- Guinea BissauZavyer- Sierra Leone Jessica- SomaliaEmilee- Senegal Hannah- MauritaniaSpencer- Guinea Gabe- LiberiaRayne- Mali Jarreth- GhanaEric- Burkina Faso Carter- NigeriaRyan- Togo Britney- NigerEmily- Benin Basim- Sierra LeoneLauren- Egypt Lola- KenyaBrook- Morocco Jacob- Rwanda

• Nicole- Swaziland Paige- Seychelles• Sarah- Burundi Vivian- Zambia• Matt B- Cameroon Laura- Angola• Braydyn- Kenya Kyra- Somalia• Hanna- Senegal Emma- Mozambique• Grace- Congo Matt- Liberia• Dom- Malawi Erin- The Comoros• Marissa- Mauritius Lilly-Uganda• Rachel- Sao Tome Megan- Algeria• Jared- Sudan Sammy- Nigeria• Spenser- Tanzania Liam- Mali• Yosef- Ethiopia

Johannesburg City, South Africa

Lagos, West Africa

Africa (my guess) Africa (actual #) Canada

Population

Area

Price of McDonalds combo $8.50

Price of a bag of apples (1kg) $3.29

Price for a movie ticket $12.00

Price for rent of a one bedroom apartment (in the middle of a city)

$1019/month

Read Pages 157-159 Objective: to identify, locate, and map West Africa; to list examples of its major geographical features.How does Africa compare to North America and the other continents?

Name _____ Lesson #1 - The Location Gr. 6__ And Geography of Africa

Read Pages 157-159 Objective: to identify, locate, and map West Africa; to list examples of its major geographical features.How does Africa compare to North America and the other continents?• Africa is 2nd largest in both size and population; only Asia is larger. North America is 3rd in size.

Name _____ Lesson #1 - The Location Gr. 6__ And Geography of Africa

Read Pages 157-159 Objective: to identify, locate, and map West Africa; to list examples of its major geographical features.How does Africa compare to North America and the other continents?• Africa is 2nd largest in both size and population; only Asia is larger. North America is 3rd in size.How far to the North and South of the Equator does Africa stretch?

Name _____ Lesson #1 - The Location Gr. 6__ And Geography of Africa

Read Pages 157-159 Objective: to identify, locate, and map West Africa; to list examples of its major geographical features.How does Africa compare to North America and the other continents?• Africa is 2nd largest in both size and population; only Asia is larger. North America is 3rd in size.How far to the North and South of the Equator does Africa stretch?• Africa stretches about 4 000 km north and south of the Equator.

Name _____ Lesson #1 - The Location Gr. 6__ And Geography of Africa

Read Pages 157-159 Objective: to identify, locate, and map West Africa; to list examples of its major geographical features.How does Africa compare to North America and the other continents?• Africa is 2nd largest in both size and population; only Asia is larger. North America is 3rd in size.How far to the North and South of the Equator does Africa stretch?• Africa stretches about 4 000 km north and south of the Equator.\What does “Sub-Saharan” Africa mean?

Name _____ Lesson #1 - The Location Gr. 6__ And Geography of Africa

Read Pages 157-159 Objective: to identify, locate, and map West Africa; to list examples of its major geographical features.How does Africa compare to North America and the other continents?• Africa is 2nd largest in both size and population; only Asia is larger. North America is 3rd in size.How far to the North and South of the Equator does Africa stretch?• Africa stretches about 4 000 km north and south of the Equator.\What does “Sub-Saharan” Africa mean?• Sub-Saharan Africa means is the region in Africa south of the Sahara Desert. Sub-Saharan Africa is divided into 4 regions:1) East Africa 2) West Africa 3) Central Africa and 4) Southern Africa.

Name _____ Lesson #1 - The Location Gr. 6__ And Geography of Africa

Read Pages 157-159 Objective: to identify, locate, and map West Africa; to list examples of its major geographical features.How does Africa compare to North America and the other continents?• Africa is 2nd largest in both size and population; only Asia is larger. North America is 3rd in size.How far to the North and South of the Equator does Africa stretch?• Africa stretches about 4 000 km north and south of the Equator.\What does “Sub-Saharan” Africa mean?• Sub-Saharan Africa means is the region in Africa south of the Sahara Desert. Sub-Saharan Africa is divided into 4 regions:1) East Africa 2) West Africa 3) Central Africa and 4) Southern Africa.• Africa has 54 countries and more than 2 000 languages!

Name _____ Lesson #1 - The Location Gr. 6__ And Geography of Africa

Group Teaching

• Land• Climate• Rivers and Lakes• Population Density• Fauna

6ALAND CLIMATE RIVERS &

LAKESPOPULATION DENSITY

FAUNA

Group 1 Alfan Hannah Jarreth Lauren Basim

Group 2 Isabella Emiliee Spencer Ryan Jacob

Group 3 Braden Jessica Eric Carter Brook

Group 4 Diego Zavyer Gabe Britney **

Group 5 Bruce Malcolm Rayne Emily Lola

6/7BLAND CLIMATE RIVERS &

LAKESPOPULATION DENSITY

FAUNA

Group 1 Sarah Lilly Jared Spenser Megan

Group 2 Matt B Matt M Erin Laura Emma

Group 3 Braydyn Kyra Liam Marissa Sammy

Group 4 Dom Hanna Nicole Yosef ***

Group 5 Rachel Vivian Grace Paige ***

Your Task

• Read the paragraph you have been assigned.• After ~5 minutes, share what you read with

your group.• As a group, create a page of notes. Feel free

to use text and illustrations.• This will be photocopied and used while

studying for your quiz.