LESSON PLAN

Learning Area: Social Sciences - History Grade: 9 Lesson: Module 4: Current affairs Duration:
Learning Activities: Learning outcome: Assessment Standards:

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Teaching methods and Lesson Progression: Resources: Assessment:

Activity 1: The learner will be able to apply research skills, demonstrate knowledge and understanding of history and interpret aspects of history: UNITY IN SOUTH AFRICA

1.2:

LO 1 HISTORICAL INVESTIGATION The learner is able to use research skills to investigate both the present and the past.

1.3: 1.4:

asks significant questions to evaluate the sources (e.g. to identify bias and stereotypes, omissions and gaps) [working with to sources]; analyses the information in the sources [works with sources]; presents an independent line of argument in answering questions posed, and justifies (using evidence) the conclusions reached [answering the question];

Activity 1: The learner will be able to apply research skills, demonstrate knowledge and understanding of history and interpret aspects of history: UNITY IN SOUTH AFRICA

LO 2 KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF HISTORY The learner is able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of history.

2.2:

2.4:

identifies categories of cause and effect (e.g. immediate and long-term, direct and indirect) [cause and effect]; recognises that change and development does not always mean progress [change and continuity].

Learning Activities: Activity 1: The learner will be able to apply research skills, demonstrate knowledge and understanding of history and interpret aspects of history: UNITY IN SOUTH AFRICA

Learning outcome:

Assessment Standards:

Teaching methods and Lesson Progression:

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Assessment:

3.2:

LO 3 INTERPRETATION OF HISTORY The learner is able to interpret aspects of history.

3.3:

constructs an interpretation based on sources, giving reasons for own interpretation [source interpretation]; analyses issues which influence the way history has been written [influences on interpretation].

1.2:

Activity 2:

LO 1 HISTORICAL INVESTIGATION The learner is able to use research skills to investigate both the present and the past.

1.3: 1.4:

investigates a topic by asking key questions and identifies a variety of relevant sources to explore this topic [finds sources]; analyses the information in the sources [works with sources]; presents an independent line of argument in answering questions posed, and justifies (using evidence) the conclusions reached [answering the question].

Activity 2:

LO 2 KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF HISTORY The learner is able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of history.

2.2:

2.4:

identifies categories of cause and effect (e.g. immediate and long-term, direct and indirect) [cause and effect]; recognises that change and development does not always mean progress [change and continuity].

Learning Activities:

Learning outcome:
3.2:

Assessment Standards:
constructs an interpretation based on sources, giving reasons for own interpretation [source interpretation]; analyses issues which influence the way history has been written [influences on interpretation].

Teaching methods and Lesson Progression:

Resources:

Assessment:

Activity 2:

LO 3 INTERPRETATION OF HISTORY The learner is able to interpret aspects of history.

3.3:

Activity 3: The learner will be able to apply research skills, demonstrate knowledge and understanding of history by making use of correspondences and differences: CHILDREN IN AFRICA Activity 3: The learner will be able to apply research skills, demonstrate knowledge and understanding of history by making use of correspondences and differences: CHILDREN IN AFRICA

1.1:

LO 1 HISTORICAL INVESTIGATION The learner is able to use research skills to investigate both the present and the past.

1.3: 1.4:

investigates a topic by asking key questions and identifies a variety of relevant sources to explore this topic [finds sources]; analyses the information in the sources [works with sources]; presents an independent line of argument in answering questions posed, and justifies (using evidence) the conclusions reached [answers the question].

LO 2 KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF HISTORY The learner is able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of history.

2.3:

explains and analyses the reasons for the results of events in history [cause and effect].

Learning Activities: Activity 4: The learner will be able to apply research skills, demonstrate knowledge and understanding of history by making use of correspondences and differences, cause and effect and chronology: AIDS AND AFRICA Activity 4: The learner will be able to apply research skills, demonstrate knowledge and understanding of history by making use of correspondences and differences, cause and effect and chronology: AIDS AND AFRICA Teacher reflection:

Learning outcome:
1.3: 1.4:

Assessment Standards:
analyses the information in the sources [works with sources]; presents an independent line of argument in answering questions posed, and justifies (using evidence) the conclusions reached [answers the question]; communicates knowledge and understanding by constructing own interpretation and argument based on the historical sources (including extended writing, artwork, graphics and drama); uses information technology where available and appropriate [communicates the answer].

Teaching methods and Lesson Progression:

Resources:

Assessment:

LO 1 HISTORICAL INVESTIGATION The learner is able to use research skills to investigate both the present and the past.

1.5:

2.1:

LO 2 KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF HISTORY The learner is able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of history.

2.2:

2.3:

places events, people and changes in the periods of history studied within a chronological framework [chronology and time]; identifies categories of causes and effects (e.g. immediate and long-term, direct and indirect) [cause and effect]; explains and analyses the reasons for the results of events in history [cause and effect].