Welcome to CiC’s CAPS-aligned, practical and creative, EdTech inspired modules for Grade 6 that are learner-centred and skills based. Each termly module offers 8 weeks of awe-inspiring and engaging lessons aimed at growing and developing 21st century thinking.

21st Century Skills:

  • Creative thinking
  • Critical Thinking
  • Problem-solving
  • Communication
  • Collaboration
  • Digital Literacy

We have swapped the DBE suggested module-order to link the content in the three subjects and create themes for each term.

Each lesson consists of:

  • A teacher’s guide video
  • A downloadable lesson plan
  • All materials such as worksheets, videos and digital resources
  • Options that are ZedTech, TechLight and TechLoaded

Term 1

NST: Life and Living/ Structures

  • Photosynthesis
  • Nutrients in food
  • Nutrition
  • Ecosystems and food webs
  • Food processing

 

 

 

 

 

 

Geography: Trade: South Africa and the World

  • Why people trade
  • What people trade
  • Resources and their values
  • Fair trading

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

History: An African Kingdom long ago in Southern Africa: Mapungubwe

  • Changes in societies in the Limpopo Valley between 900 AD and 1300 AD
  • Settlements in the Limpopo Valley before Mapungubwe: K2 and Schroda
  • Mapungubwe: 1220 – 1300
  • Change and continuity in East Coast trade with inland settlements
  • Great Zimbabwe
  • European explorers in Asia at the same time as Mapungubwe at its height

Term 2

NST: Matter and Materials/ Processing

  •  Solids, liquids and gases
  • Mixtures
  • Solutions as special mixtures
  • Dissolving
  • Mixtures and water resources
  • Processes to purify water

Geography: Map skills: The World

  • Latitude and longitude
  • Scale
  • Atlases, global statistics and current events

 

 

 

History: Explorers from Europe find Southern Africa

  • Reasons for European exploration
    • The European Renaissance 15th and 16th centuries
    • New ideas and knowledge
    • Inventions
    • Spreading the Christian religion
    • Trade and making a profit

Term 3

  • NST: Energy and change/ Systems and control 
  • Electrical circuits
  • Electrical conductors and insulators
  • Mains electricity

 

 

 

 

Geography: Population: Why people live where they do

  • People and provinces in South Africa
  • Why people live where they do (South Africa)
  • People around the world

 

 

 

 

History: Democracy and citizenship

  • How people govern themselves in a democracy: our national government
  • Rights and responsibilities of citizens in a democracy
  • Children’s rights and responsibilities
  • National symbols since 1994
  • History Research Project: Biography of a South African who has contributed to building democracy

Term 4

NST: Planet Earth and Beyond/ Systems and control

  • The Solar System
  • Movements of the Earth and the planets
  • The movement of the Moon

 

 

Geography:  Climate and vegetation around the world

  • Climate around the world
  • Tropical rainforests
  • Hot deserts
  • Coniferous forests

 

History: Medicine through time

  •  Indigenous healing in South Africa
  • Some modern Western scientific medical discoveries
    • Case study: A breakthrough surgery: the first heart transplant
  • Link between holistic and Western forms of healing today