Geography - Scheme of Work 2012-2013 Scheme of Work – Form 2 ...

Geography SOW – Form 2 St Joseph School Blata l-Bajda 2014-2015Topics: Life in The SaharaLesson Title Objectives ActivitiesLatitude andLongitudeHelp studentsidentify and locatedeserts around theworld using latitudeand longitude- Students are given 10minutes to explore the Atlas and identify what lines on maps show – note thenumbers, names, letters, degrees, etc.- They will be then given an empty world map where they will mark the important lines ot latitudeand longitude (7 lines – Equator, 2 tropics, 2 circles, Prime Meridian and Data line). Also the Poles.The location ofDeserts in theWorldClimate andLandscape of theSaharaHelp studentsidentify and locatedeserts usinglatitude andlongitudeExplore the climaticand geomorphicfeatures of theSahara Desert- The teacher provides the students with atlases and the students have to find the world map whichshows the various deserts. Students list the deserts according to continent and investigate thecommon aspects regarding their location, (i.e. between 10⁰ and 30⁰ North and South of the Equatoron the western margins of continents), in relation to the latitudes and longitudes.- Another handout could include the following exercises:a) Teacher provides students with a list of places such as Timbuktu, Nouakchott,Marzuq, Agades,Gabarone and Medina. By the use of Google Earth or an atlas, the students have to fill in a table toprovide information on the continent, country, name of desert as well as latitude and longitude foreach named location.b) Identify the Equator on a map or globe and name a few countries that lie in the Northern andSouthern Hemisphere. They can locate the Sahara Desert on a map.- The teacher presents statistics of monthly average temperatures and rainfall for various locationswithin the Sahara Desert. Working in pairs the students examine these statistics to draw theirconclusions about the main climatic characteristics of hot deserts.- Teacher asks students to draw and describe their mental image of a desert. By using relevant photosand video clips the teacher then introduces the students to the local terms used namely erg, hamadaand reg.- The teacher then gives a list of terms related to desert landscapes namely sand, rocks, stones, vastplains, large towering cliffs, salt flats, dried clay or mud. The students have to research the internetto link these terms with related photos of the Sahara Desert and associate the above mentioned threetypes of desert landscape with the corresponding terms used.