Contents How this course works ................................................................................................. 6 Section 1 Guidelines to teaching in the Senior Phase


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The National Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statements ..................................... 8 Instructional time allocation ........................................................................................ 9 Learning in the Senior Phase ....................................................................................... 9


Section 2 Planning and assessment 10


Overview .................................................................................................................... 10 Teaching plan for Social Sciences Grade 8 ............................................................... 10 Assessment ................................................................................................................. 20 Formal Programme of Assessment ............................................................................ 21 Overview of specific aims and skills for Social Sciences ......................................... 27


Section 3 Teaching and learning Social Sciences 30


What is Social Sciences? ........................................................................................... 30 Grade 8-specific skills for Social Sciences ................................................................ 31 Inclusive teaching ...................................................................................................... 32


Section 4 Teaching Social Sciences


Term 1 Module 1 Maps and globes


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Unit 1 Maps and atlases… ......................................................................................... 36 Unit 2 The globe…. ................................................................................................... 44 Unit 3 Satellite images………… .............................................................................. 48 Revision and formal assessment ................................................................................ 49


Module 2 The Industrial Revolution in Britain and southern Africa from 1860


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Unit 1 Changes during the Industrial Revolution in Britain… ................................. 52 Unit 2 Southern Africa by 1860… ............................................................................ 59 Unit 3 Diamond mining in Kimberley: 1867 onwards……. ..................................... 64 Revision ..................................................................................................................... 67


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