Africa: Rivers and Lakes - Lesson!

This interesting and highly-stimulating lesson enables students to describe and understand the key aspects of Africa’s major rivers and lakes. Whilst gaining a wide range of knowledge about the rivers and lakes, students also become familiar with a wide range of vocabulary pertinent to the geography curriculum.

The lesson follows a clear, logical, bite-size learning journey, which guides students towards relevant and constructive learning objectives. Over the course of this journey, they become able to:

-Remember key facts about the African continent to contextualise their learning;
-Identify African rivers and lakes on a map, and identify the countries and regions within the continent;
-Learn about the Nile and Lake Victoria - modelled in the presentation;
-Retrieve, share, and describe key information about various rivers and lakes in Africa, through a researching activity.
-Peer assess each others’ descriptions using the learning objectives.

The lesson requires access to atlases and/or web-searching devices.

This resource pack includes:
-A visually engaging whole-lesson PowerPoint presentation (16 slides);
-A blank map for the atlas activity;
-Research template for the main activity;

The resources within this lesson can be easily adapted to suit home/remote learning.