B6 Our World And Our People · Term 2 Week 2: Map Making and Land Marks

Lesson notes

Learning Objectives

Indicator: B6.2.3.1.1 - Identify the political regions on a sketch map of Ghana

By the end of the lesson, learners can:

Name all sixteen political regions of Ghana and their capitals from memory.
Locate and label the sixteen regions on a blank sketch map of Ghana accurately.
Identify the countries that border Ghana to the North, East and West using a map of Africa.
Create a simple song or rhyme that lists the regions of Ghana in a logical order to aid memory.
Compare a sketch map with a real map and explain the importance of symbols and labels in map reading.

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Curriculum details

Strand: All Around Us (Strand 2)
Sub-strand: Map Making and Land Marks (2.3)
Content standard: B6.2.3.1 - Demonstrate understanding of the map of Ghana
Indicator: B6.2.3.1.1 - Identify the political regions on a sketch map of Ghana
Suggested placement: Term 2, Week 2 (Week 14 of the year)
Our suggestion, laid out in curriculum order across three terms of twelve weeks. NaCCA does not fix the week, so follow your school's scheme of learning.
Curriculum reference: Our World and Our People Curriculum (Basic 4-6), 2019, p. 51
Transcribed from the official NaCCA publication. Check this page against the source.

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

Learners talk about the political regions of Ghana e.g. the sixteen regions, their names and capitals.
Learners show the locations of the political regions on a sketch map of Ghana.
Observe a map of Africa and write out the countries, which border Ghana to the North, East and West.
Compose a song that locates the position of Ghana in relation to other countries along the Coast of West Africa. "From Senegal to Gambia…Benin to Nigeria".