Create your own country/ South Sudan Independence

Identity

Key words

Google Earth - or consider Atlas - depending on students’ locational knowledge and skills

Video with a few comprehension questions - AFL

Images, Atlas, Split, Latitude images/ information available - explanation available if needed.

South Sudan - questions about placement etc. (in lesson plan)

Timeline reading
Mind map ideas - from timeline prompts - you may want to explain, draw etc.
I used Iraq as an example (about the war and religion) - and linking it to humanities - affecting this independence and conflict etc.

Design your own country - questions to ask to check understanding
Include prompt questions in instructions – e.g., do you want the capital city to be in the mountains or near the river? Why?/ do you want them to speak the same language or something different and why?
Questions about their new country - students to justify
They label their country
Challenges included

Random sharing - wheel of fortune included in PPT. Adjust names.