Download Ethiopian new Curriculum grade 10 geography Teacher's Guide PDF

The Grade 10 Geography Teacher’s Guide is designed to support teachers in delivering Ethiopia's new competency-based curriculum. It emphasizes Africa-focused content and practical teaching strategies while helping students understand global geography through an African perspective. This guide helps teachers engage students with real-world applications of geography, including natural resource management, urbanization, climate change, and data interpretation using geospatial tools.

Teacher’s Guide Summary

• Country: Ethiopia
• Publisher: Ministry of Education (MoE)
• Published Year: 2022
• Subject: Geography
• Grade Level: Grade 10
• Curriculum type: Ethiopian New Curriculum
• Book Type: Teacher’s Guide
• Total Units: 8 units
• Total Pages: 214
• File Size: 3.4 MB
• Format: PDF

This Teacher’s Guide written by:

• Wondafrash Genet Degu
• Kenate Worku Tabor (Ph.D.)

The Ethiopian New Curriculum Grade 10 Geography Teacher’s Guide consists 7 units. Each unit provides teachers with background knowledge, practical strategies, and assessment ideas to explore geography in a way that connects students to their continent and the wider world.

Unit 1: Land forms of Africa

Teachers help students understand major global land forms, focusing on Africa’s geographic features such as mountains, plateaus, and rift valleys. This connects physical geography with human settlement patterns.

Unit 2: Climate of Africa

This unit guides teachers to explain world and African climate zones, their impact on life and agriculture, and how climate change affects development. Teachers are equipped to make climate education relevant to local contexts.

Unit 3: Natural Resource Base of Africa

Teachers introduce Africa’s drainage systems, water bodies, mineral resources, and ecosystems. Strategies include mapping exercises and discussions on conservation within African contexts.

Unit 4: Population of Africa

Teachers explore demographic trends, age structures, urbanization, and rural life. Lessons help students understand how population dynamics shape Africa’s present and future.

Unit 5: Major Economic and Cultural Activities of Africa

This unit helps teachers deliver lessons on African employment sectors, economic strategies, Agenda 2063, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and cultural diversity. The guide includes methods for integrating debates and project work.

Unit 6: Human–Natural Environment Interactions

Teachers encourage critical thinking about how humans affect and adapt to their environment, including indigenous conservation practices and the consequences of population growth.

Unit 7: Geographic Issues and Public Concerns in Africa

This unit equips teachers to guide student inquiry into urbanization, migration, and related social issues. Real African case studies are recommended to make learning more relevant.

Unit 8: Geo-spatial Information and Data Processing

Teachers introduce students to GIS, satellite imagery, map reading, and data visualization. The guide offers practical classroom activities like graph interpretation and digital map making.