I used the Platinum Social Sciences Grade 6 Book as guideline for our Geography Curriculum for this year, but I expanded it a little by adding my own extra books and activities.
The topics covered in our curriculum are the following:
- Map skills (Latitude, longitude, hemispheres, scale, our province)
- Trade
- Resources and their value
- Climates around the world:
- Tropical Rainforests
- Hot Deserts
- Cold Deserts
- Coniferous Forests
- Temperate Deciduous Forests
- Temperate Grasslands
- Tropical Grasslands
- Lowland Tundra
- Highland Tundra
- People and Provinces in South Africa
- Why people live where they do
- Rural and Urban Areas
- People around the World
- Research Project: Brazil
- The City of Rio de Janeiro
I created a complete Notebooking set to go with this curriculum, and also short daily lessons that are easy for my son to follow and complete on his own (though he will need me for some tasks and discussion topics).
In the outline you will see that there are Target Worksheets and Formal Assessments scheduled. These are found in the Teacher’s Guide that I purchased together with the Learner’s Book. The Teacher’s Guide also has the memorandums for the formal assessments/tests/exams, and other discussion topics. My outline is custom-made according to our other subjects, and scheduled mostly for 2 lessons per week, except where we hit Climate and vegetation around the World, when there are more experiments to be done (we’ll use Science around the World by Janice VanCleave), so the lessons are scheduled for 5 days a week (for 9 weeks). Our Geography curriculum totals to 94 lessons for the year.
Books used or referred to in this year’s curriculum:
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You can download my files here:
Grade 6 Geography Outline
Grade 6 Geography Lesson Plans
Grade 6 Geography Book Cover
Notebooking Pages:
00 Latitude and Longitude
01 Scale
02 Mapping picture dictionary
03 Limpopo Province
04 Limpopo Province Continued
05 Trade
06 Raw vs Manufactured
07 Medupi Power Station
08 Manufactured vs raw
09 Mining gold for jewellery
10 Biomes
10 Rainforests
11 Hot deserts
12 Cold deserts
13 Coniferous forests
14 Tundra
15 Temperate Diceduous Forests
16 Grasslands
17 Temperatures
18 Precipitation
18 Precipitation2
19 Population
20 Population of the World
20 Rural vs urban
21 Brazil
21 Rio
22 Vocabulary
As with my son’s Grade 5 Geography (and History), I compiled the notebooking pages in a display folder so that the pages could be displayed back to back:
