East Africa PDF

East Africa is the fourth unit in the People & Place geography course. In East Africa you will learn about rich and poor countries and rich and poor individuals and then the countries of Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, and Madagascar.

Each East Africa unit includes a skill section about human populations, government, or economics followed by a focus on a specific region of the world. By the time you complete the entire four year cycle of Layers of Learning Geography you will have covered the entire world and learned the skills and knowledge needed to analyze and understand maps, cultures, people, governments, and the planet all over the world.

This unit is a guide for the mentor to use in creating lessons and directing discussions and learning. It is not a textbook for the student.

This unit includes sections on:

• Rich & Poor
• Kenya
• Tanzania
• Mozambique
• Madagascar

Hands-on Learning

This is an activity based curriculum. You pick activities to do as you read books and watch videos about the countries of East Africa. Here are some of the activities found in this unit:

• Learn about GDP and then compare the GDP of various countries around the world
• Make a piggy bank craft showing the factors that make a country rich
• Color and label a map of the countries of East Africa
• Make a Maasai style necklace craft
• Use glue and paint to make your own kanga cloth on a piece of cotton fabric
• Cook ugali, a common food in East Africa
• Make a drum and play it along to music from Mozambique
• Craft a paper timeline of major events in the modern history of Mozambique
• Make Malagasy cake with vanilla from Madagascar
• Map the seven eco regions of Madagascar
• Plus much more!

See Inside

This is double page spread of the inside of the East Africa unit:

Each Layers of Learning Geography unit includes library lists of books, a family read-aloud suggestion, hands-on activities, printables and paper crafts, sidebars for extra learning, and tools to help you assess student’s progress and mastery. Learn more about how Layers of Learning works.

Flexibility

This unit was written to be used for a month but contains plenty of content for many more weeks of learning if you choose. This is a pick-and-choose curriculum, meant to be cycled back to in the future when your child is older. As such, it intentionally includes far more material than you can possibly cover in a month.

East Africa is also part of the overall People & Place course, the fourth Year of the four-year Layers of Learning Geography cycle. If you use the program in order, it will take you though the geography of the world from continents and the physical planet in Year One, to mapping skills in Year Two, then to cultures in Year Three, and finally, to government and society in Year Four.  Every year is also a tour of the whole planet, making stops on every continent. However, each unit stands alone and can be used independently of any other unit.

Printable Pack

This unit comes with a downloadable Printable Pack that includes all the student worksheets. The printables can be copied as many times as needed for your family or class.

You can download the Printable Pack from your receipt or from your account at Layers of Learning.

Extra Resources

This unit comes with extra weblinks and a YouTube video playlist on the People & Place Resources page.