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Africa's struggle with AIDS

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A lesson plan for grade 7 Social Studies

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This Xpeditions lesson is designed to help students understand the enormity of the impact of AIDS on the population of Africa by comparing its effect there with its effect on the population of the world in general, and especially on that of the United States. National Geographic has planned this lesson to assist teachers with the discussion of a sensitive topic and provides helpful web resources that present facts and information in a clear manner.

Students will:

  • locate Africa on a map of the world, find various countries on a map of Africa, and locate on a map the part of the United States that lies east of the Mississippi River;
  • develop their Internet search skills;
  • find information from graphs and charts;
  • make quantifiable distinctions about the impact of HIV/AIDS on the populations of Africa and the United States; and
  • list several cultural and economic reasons for those differences.

Xpeditions provides detailed instructions, helpful links to web resources and map making tools, and suggestions for assessment and extension activities.

North Carolina Curriculum Alignment

Social Studies (2003)

Grade 7

  • Goal 1: The learner will use the five themes of geography and geographic tools to answer geographic questions and analyze geographic concepts.
    • Objective 1.01: Create maps, charts, graphs, databases, and models as tools to illustrate information about different people, places and regions in Africa, Asia, and Australia.
    • Objective 1.02: Generate, interpret, and manipulate information from tools such as maps, globes, charts, graphs, databases, and models to pose and answer questions about space and place, environment and society, and spatial dynamics and connections.
    • Objective 1.03: Use tools such as maps, globes, graphs, charts, databases, models, and artifacts to compare data on different countries of Africa, Asia, and Australia and to identify patterns as well as similarities and differences.
  • Goal 7: The learner will assess the connections between historical events and contemporary issues in Africa, Asia, and Australia.
    • Objective 7.01: Identify historical events such as invasions, conquests, and migrations and evaluate their relationship to current issues.