2024 YEARLY PLAN SENIOR 2A Social Studies
2024 YEARLY PLAN SENIOR 2A Social Studies
YEARLY PLAN
Senior School 2024
MAIN AIMS:
● To learn the general characteristics of the USA and relate their culture in our daily lives.
● To understand the world’s changes in terms of population growth and how it increases the demand for natural
resources.
● To be able to use satellite images to compare regions and its changes during different periods of time.
● To be able to innovate and present new ways of managing and preventing environmental pollution due to
overpopulation.
● To understand the importance of human rights and be able to identify their most relevant historical advances.
● To be able to synthesise main ideas, produce written texts and communicate them orally.
FIRST TERM
TIMING LEARNING GOALS ACTIVITIES / PROJECTS USE OF ICT EVALUATION (Type
FUNCTION, SKILLS & CONCEPTS and tools)
Unit 1: USA - Brainstorming words that reminds us of the USA - Video and Kahoot Class activities
- Reading and watching video about USA’s geography, history, (motivation) and oral
March-April - The USA: Facts, Geography, economy and government. - Google Docs presentation
(3 weeks) History, Economy and Government - Completing file fact (activities)
- Designing a journey through the USA – presenting it orally
-Educaplay (exe.) Oral presentation
- Reading and exercising about the history of music and sports.
April-May (3 - USA Sports and Music -Digital
-Investigating and preparing presentations of your favourite
weeks) athlete or artist of the USA Presentation app
October (2 -Globalization: Oil and -Reading and investigating the importance of oil as a global - Video (intro) Metacognition
weeks) transformation in the Middle East natural resource. Middle East wealth - Google earth and infographic
-Debating how primary recourse dependence can affect a - Canva or Genially
country’s economy (infographic)
- Dubai: Making an infographic with google earth images to
show changes to oil wealth
Unit 4: Human Rights Class activity
- Google Docs.
October- - Democracy, Constitutions and
November (2 Human Rights: - Reading and summarising main ideas
Timeline and
weeks) - Understanding terms by practice
summary
-Making timeline of the most important advances in human - Timeline app
November (2 - History of Human Rights.
rights UNIT
weeks)
- Investigating and writing a summary about the Universal WRITTEN
Declaration of Human Rights EXAM
Teacher’s Resources:
- Dufort Brian, and others (2018) “World Geography”. Michigan open book project
- Government of Samoa - MINISTRY OF EDUCATION, SPORTS AND CULTURE (2004). “Social Studies” book 1, year 9. Egan-Reid Ltd
- Government of Samoa - MINISTRY OF EDUCATION, SPORTS AND CULTURE (2001). “Social Studies” book 1, year 10. Egan-Reid Ltd
- Government of Samoa - MINISTRY OF EDUCATION, SPORTS AND CULTURE (2004). “Social Studies” book 2, year 10. Egan-Reid Ltd
- Several web sites.
Students’ resources:
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