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Africa Homeschool Study Guide

A six-week, ready-to-teach unit study on African geography, history, art, language, and innovation — with daily lessons, activities, vocabulary, and assessments.

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Learning objectives

◆ Locate Africa's 54 countries and 5 regions on a map
◆ Identify major rivers, deserts, mountains, and lakes
◆ Explain how geography shaped trade and settlement

Daily plan

Day 1: Africa's regions: North, West, Central, East, SouthernActivity: Label a blank map of the 5 regions
Day 2: Rivers and lakes: Nile, Congo, Niger, Zambezi, Lake VictoriaActivity: Trace each river and name 2 countries it crosses
Day 3: Deserts and highlands: Sahara, Kalahari, Ethiopian HighlandsActivity: Compare climates in a two-column chart
Day 4: Flags and capitalsActivity: Play The Africa Memory Game™ — flag matching round
Day 5: Review and narrationActivity: Draw Africa freehand from memory and label 10 countries

Vocabulary

continent · region · savanna · delta · plateau

Assessment

Blank-map quiz: 15 countries, 4 rivers, 2 deserts.

Materials for this unit

The lessons work on their own, but the games and bilingual books make them richer — especially the map, flag, and folktale weeks.

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