The following map activity serves as a good review activity for various features of Africa learned during Semester 1. It also introduces some new features found in Sub-Saharan Africa that will be studied in greater detail as the semester progresses.
For this project you will need:
- Africa Grid Map
- Crayons or colored pencils
- Stickers, R-17a
- Scissors
- Glue stick
- Plastic page protector
- Example of completed Sticker Map, R-17b
Color items in the order identified below:
- Find Lake Victoria. Color it blue.
- Trace the Nile River in blue.
- Color the African continent green, including Madagascar.
- Color the Red Sea red and the Mediterranean Sea pink.
- Color the Atlantic Ocean blue and the Indian Ocean purple.
- Color Spain brown.
- Color the Arabian Peninsula (to the East of Africa) yellow.
Now, let’s add stickers to designate some specific geographical features found in Africa.
The stickers will be cut out one-by-one as listed below and then glued to the map.
- Place a long sticker on the lines representing the Equator and the Prime Meridian.
- Use stickers to designate North (“N”), South (“S”), East (“E”), and West (“W”) on the map.
- Cut out two long stickers and place on the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn.
Next:
- Place the sticker with yellow diagonal lines on the area of the Sahara Desert.
- Place a sea animal sticker in the Atlantic Ocean.
- Place a lemur sticker on the island of Madagascar.
- Place the “I” sticker on the Indian Ocean.
- Place the “M” sticker on the Mediterranean Ocean.
- Place the “R” sticker on the Red Sea.
- Place an “S” sticker over the Strait of Gibraltar.
- Place an “S” sticker over the Suez Canal/Sinai Peninsula.
And finally:
Note: for the following, use a physical map of Africa for the specific locations of the following features.
- Place the mountain sticker over Morocco/Algeria to signify the Atlas Mountain range.
- Place a triangle sticker on Mt. Kilimanjaro in eastern Tanzania. [Mt. Kilimanjaro is the highest mountain in Africa.]
- Place a pyramid sticker on Egypt.
- Place a Safari animal sticker over the area of the Serengeti. [The word “serengeti” means “endless plain” in the language of the Masaai people. The Serengeti is a grassland region located in Northern Tanzania and extends into Southern Kenya.]
- Place a tree sticker over the Democratic Republic of Congo to signify the Congo Rainforest. [The Congo Rainforest is the second largest rainforest in the world, second to the Amazon Rainforest in South America. This rainforest covers the area from Cameroon to the Democratic Republic of the Congo.]
- Place the “rick rack” sticker on the region of The Great Rift Valley. [The Great Rift Valley is a long, continuous geographic trench, over 3000 miles in length. It runs through the center of Ethiopia and along the western border of Uganda and Tanzania.]
Once this project is completed, it can be placed in a page protector or hole-punched and placed behind the “Geography” section of the student notebook.