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LESSON PREPARATION FOR SOCIAL SCIENCES
GRADE 8 SUBJECT: GEO WEEK LESSON TOPIC: Settlement and landuse
1-2 5 SUBTOPIC: Rural Settlement
LESSON SUMMARY FOR: DATE STARTED DATE COMPLETED
LESSON CONCEPTS
OBJECTIVES Learners will have a sound knowledge of a rural area and its fuctions. Uni-functional
Multi-functional
Dispersed/Isolated
Nucleated/Clustered
Subsistance farming
Commercial farming
Migration
Kraal
Hamlet
Argriculture
Cash crops
Monoculture
TEACHER ACTIVITIES TIMING LEARNER ACTIVITIES TIMING RESOURCES NEEDED
1. Introduction. Learners activity. See previous lessons
1.1 Learners do corrections of the 10 min Learners do corrections. memorandums.
previous lesson. See memorandum 10 min Note books
1.2 Before starting with the next Pictures of rural areas.
lesson do a basline assessment on
the following to test learners pre-
knowledge. Learners discuss answer
Key questions? orally.
1.2.1What is a rural settlement? 1.2.1. Rural area are smaller
1.2.2 Where do we find rural areas/ settlements in the country
settlements? side/ villages and farms
1.2.3 What type of fuction do you find 1.2.2 Country side/ vilages or
in a rural area? farms
1.2.4 What do understand with the 1.2.3 Primary –like farming
terms dispersed and nucleated? forestry, mining, hunting and
fishing.
2. Body 15 min 1.2.4 Dispersed when farm 15 min
Teacher explain the following are far from each other.
information . Nucleated/ cluster when
There two types of rural settlement farms or houses are near/
with examples close together.
Apart (dispersed)/ isolated
Close (nucleated)/clustered
Types of rural setllement
(functions)
Farming
Mining primary
Forestry
Fishing
5 min
3. conclusion 5 min Learners complete the
classwork in their work
Learners should draw/copy the table books
on the board and ask learners to
complete the activity in their
workbooks.
See attached activity
References:
Settlements > landuse
[Link]/.../landus...In rural areas (countryside) land use can include forestry and farming. In urban
areas (towns and cities) land use could be housing or industry. Land use in urban
South Africa: Urban settlement - Encyclopaedia Britannica
[Link]/.../topic/.../Urban-settlement
Urban area - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[Link]/wiki/Urban_area
Rural area - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[Link]/wiki/Rural_area
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