Guns, Germs, and Steel Lesson Plan

Route to Madagascar

Kind of Activity:

Technology

Objective:

Students will retrace the possible paths of early explorers by plotting hypothetical sailing routes to Madagascar

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.11-12.7, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.11-12.4, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.11-12.5

Structure:

As a class, read the section in Chapter 19 that begins: "Before we trace the Khoisan survival beyond the Bantu tide, let's see what archaeology tells us about Africa's other great prehistoric population movement—the Austronesian colonization of Madagascar" and ends with "Thus, some mystery remains about Africa's most surprising fact of human geography."

Divide students into...