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TCSS Africa Content Map
Unit Essential Question: How do geographic, government, economic,
and historical understandings influence Africa?
Standard(s): SS7G1a-b; SS7G2a-c; SS7G3a; SS7G4a-c; SS7CG1a-c;
SS7CG2a; SS7CG3a-b; SS7E1a-c; SS7E2a-b; SS7E3a-d; SS7H1a-d
Concept 1:
Geography
Concept 2:
Government/Civics
Concept 3:
Economics
Concept 4:
History
Lesson Essential Questions:
Lesson Essential Questions:
Lesson Essential Questions:
Lesson Essential Questions:
EU: Location
1. Where are the major physical
features and nations of Africa located?
EU: Governance; Distribution
of Power
5. What are the similarities and
differences in leadership, voting
rights, and personal freedoms in
Kenya and South Africa? (SS7CG2a)
(SS7G1a-b.)
EU: Human Environment
Interaction
2. How do environmental issues
impact Africa? (SS7G2a-c.)
3. How do physical features impact
the people of Africa? (SS7G3a.)
EU: Culture
4. How are Africa’s diverse cultures
similar and different? (SS7G4a-b.)
6. How did political, economic, and
social conflict result in the
independence of South Sudan?
(SS7CG2b)
7. How does gender affect access to
education in Kenya and Sudan?
(SS7CG3a.)
EU: Production, Distribution, and
EU: Conflict and Change
11. How did European partitioning
Consumption
9. What are the similarities and
affect Africa? (SS7H1a.)
differences of the economic systems in
South Africa and Nigeria? (SS7E1c.;
12. How did nationalism lead to
SS7E2c.)
independence in South Africa,
Kenya, and Nigeria? (SS7H1b.)
10. How do economic factors
influence African countries?
13. What role did Nelson Mandela
a. specialization (SS7E2a.)
and F.W. deKlerk play in the end
b. trade barriers (SS7E2b.)
of apartheid in South Africa?
c. physical/human capital, natural
(SS7H1c.)
resources, and GDP (Nigeria and
South Africa) (SS7E3a-d)
14. What is the impact of the Pand. literacy rate (SS7G4c.)
Africa movement on the continent
e. entrepreneurship (SS7E3d)
of Africa? (SS7H1d.)
8. How does government stability
impact Africa’s fight against AIDS
and famine? (SS7CG3b.)
TCSS 7th Grade Social Studies
Document last changed: 16 June 2015
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TCSS Africa Content Map
Vocabulary 1:
Essential*
Sahara
Sahel
savanna
tropical rainforest
Congo River
Niger River
Nile River
Lake Tanganyika
Lake Victoria
Atlas Mountains
Kalahari Desert
Egypt
Kenya
Nigeria
South Africa
South Sudan
Irrigation
Sudan
Unequal distribution Sub-Saharan Africa
desertification
Rainforest
Bantu
Ashanti
Swahili
deforestation
ethnic group
Arab
religious group
Muslim
Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire)
Supplemental**
Overabundance
Harvesting (trees)
Agriculture
Inanimate objects
Natural phenomena
Vocabulary 2:
Essential*
Republic of Kenya
Republic of South Africa
South Sudan
Federal
Unitary
Confederation
Voting rights
Personal freedoms
Parliamentary democracy
Presidential democracy
Supplemental**
President
Prime Minister
Chief of State
Head of Government
Vocabulary 3:
Gender
AIDS
famine
Autocratic
Oligarchic
Essential*
South Africa
Nigeria
Diamonds
Gold
Uranium
Oil
Pure market
Pure command
Mixed economy
Continuum
literacy rate
standard of living
Specialization
Trade barriers
Tariffs
Quotas
Embargos
Currency
Investment
Exchange
Entrepreneurship
Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
Human capital (education/training)
Capital (factories, machinery, technology)
Vocabulary 4:
Essential*
Partitioning
Kenya
Nationalism
Nigeria
Apartheid
South Africa
Nelson Mandela
F.W. deKlerk
Artificial Political boundaries
Pan-African Movement
Unusable soil
Ancestors
Christianity
*Essential Vocabulary are listed directly in the state standards
**Supplemental Vocabulary are listed in the State Frameworks and/or another state document
EU – Enduring Understanding (Theme)
Red Indicates new vocabulary to the unit; Vocabulary listed in black are taught in a previous unit
TCSS 7th Grade Social Studies
Document last changed: 16 June 2015
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