Africa's Vegetation Regions

Vegetation Regions of Africa

This week, after writing some very excellent vocabulary short stories, (more on those tomorrow), and doing some "Impression Busting" (more on this tomorrow, too!), the students used their textbooks to complete their own vegetation maps of Africa. 

One of the impressions the students had about Africa was that Africa is mostly desert--hot and dry everywhere. Although we "busted" that initial impression during our impression busting activity (kind of like the television show Mythbusters), I wanted the students to see that Africa is a diverse continent, so the students drew a small picture illustrating the details they found about deserts, rain forests, and savannas.

Here are some hardworking students in 3rd period:

And these very happy ladies from 7th period showing off their zebra striped savanna drawings:

And a completed assignment:

That's all for tonight. I'm excited to share the vocabulary stories and "Impression Busting" activity tomorrow!