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Grade 9 Social Sciences: modules and lessons

Explore Grade 9 Social Sciences: 22 modules and 74 lesson entries. Use the dorKk lesson guide to plan revision and catch-up study.

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Source: dorKk English lesson list dated 21 January 2026. Catalogue entries may differ from current app availability.

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CONTOUR LINES

  1. 1.1.CONCEPT OF CONTOUR LINES
  2. 1.2.STEEP AND GENTLE SLOPES
  3. 1.3.RIVER VALLEYS AND SPURS

ORTHOPHOTO MAPS

  1. 2.1.VERTICAL AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS
  2. 2.2.ORTHOPHOTO MAPS MADE FROM AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS
  3. 2.3.HOW HEIGHT IS SHOWN ON ORTHOPHOTO MAPS

1 TO 50000 TOPOGRAPHIC MAPS

  1. 3.1.READ MAP SYMBOLS TO IDENTIFY FEATURES
  2. 3.2.HEIGHT CLUES ON TOPOGRAPHIC MAPS
  3. 3.3.CONTOUR PATTERNS SHOWING RIVER VALLEYS, HILLS, MOUNTAINS, RIDGES AND SPURS
  4. 3.4.SCALE AND MEASURING DISTANCE ON TOPOGRAPHIC MAPS USING LINE SCALE AND RATIO SCALE

INFORMATION FROM MAPS AND PHOTOGRAPHS

  1. 4.1.COORDINATES TO LOCATE FEATURES
  2. 4.2.INTEPRETING INFORMATION FROM TOPOGRAPHIC AND ORTHOPHOTO MAPS AND AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS

THE RISE OF NAZI GERMANY

  1. 5.1.THE END OF WORLD WAR 1
  2. 5.2.HITLER AND THE NAZIS 1920S
  3. 5.3.THE GREAT DEPRESSION OF 1929 IN GERMANY
  4. 5.4.FAILURE OF THE WEIMAR REPUBLIC OF GERMANY
  5. 5.5.PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR THE NAZI PARTY AND THE 1932 AND 1933 ELECTIONS
  6. 5.6.ENABLING ACT OF 1933 AND DICTATORSHIP
  7. 5.7.NUREMBERG LAWS AND LOSS OF BASIC RIGHTS OF JEWISH PEOPLE 1935
  8. 5.8.PERSECUTION OF POLITICAL OPPONENTS
  9. 5.9.NAZI GERMANY; AN EXAMPLE OF A FASCIST STATE

WWII IN EUROPE

  1. 6.1.NAZI FORGEIGN POLICY; LEBENSRAUM
  2. 6.2.OUTBREAK OF WWII; ALLIES VS AXIS
  3. 6.3.EXTERMINATION CAMPS, GENOCIDE, THE HOLOCAUST AND THE 'FINAL SOLUTION'
  4. 6.4.RESISTANCE TO NAZI GERMANY
  5. 6.5.THE END OF WWII IN EUROPE

WWII IN THE PACIFIC

  1. 7.1.AMERICA VS JAPAN

DEVELOPMENT

  1. 8.1.MEANING OF DEVELOPMENT
  2. 8.2.WAYS OF MEASURING DEVELOPMENT
  3. 8.3.THE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDEX
  4. 8.4.DIFFERENCES IN DEVELOPMENT AROUND THE WORLD
  5. 8.5.FACTORS AFFECTING DEVELOPMENT; REASONS FOR DIFFERENCES (PART 1)
  6. 8.6.FACTORS AFFECTING DEVELOPMENT; REASONS FOR DIFFERENCES (PART 2
  7. 8.7.DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES; ALTERNATIVE DEVELOPMENT
  8. 8.8.DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES; MORE EQUITABLE TRADING RELATIONSHIPS

THE NUCLEAR AGE AND COLD WAR

  1. 9.1.USSR (COMMUNISM) VS USA AND THE WEST (CAPITALISM)
  2. 9.2.HOW DID THE SECOND WORLD WAR COME TO AN END
  3. 9.3.DEFINITION OF THE SUPERPOWERS AND THE MEANING OF COLD WAR
  4. 9.4.ARMS RACE
  5. 9.5.SPACE RACE
  6. 9.6.DIVISION OF GERMANY 1946 AND THE BUILDING OF THE BERLIN WALL 1961
  7. 9.7.THE END OF THE COLD WAR 1989; THE FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL AND USSR

WEATHERING

  1. 10.1.CONCEPT OF WEATHERING
  2. 10.2.PHYSICAL WEATHERING
  3. 10.3.CHEMICAL WEATHERING
  4. 10.4.BIOLOGICAL WEATHERING
  5. 10.5.IMPACT OF HUMAN ACTIVITIES ON WEATHERING

EROSION AND DEPOSITION

  1. 11.1.DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WEATHERING ,EROSION AND DEPOSITION
  2. 11.2.RIVERS
  3. 11.3.THE POWER OF WAVE ACTION AND TYPICAL LANDFORMS
  4. 11.4.MOVING ICE; GLACIATED LANDSCAPE
  5. 11.5.WIND

THE IMPACT OF PEOPLE ON SOIL EROSION

  1. 12.1.HUMAN CONTRIBUTION TO SOIL EROSION; AGRICULTURE, CONSTRUCTION AND MINING

THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS

  1. 13.1.THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AFTER THE SECOND WORLD WAR

DEFINITION OF RACISM

  1. 14.1.THE EVOLUTION OF MAN AND OUR COMMON ANCESTRY
  2. 14.2.APARTHEID AND THE MYTH OF 'RACE'

1948 NATIONAL PARTY AND APARTHEID

  1. 15.1.RACIAL SEGREGATION BEFORE APARTHEID
  2. 15.2.APARTHEID LAWS

1950S; REPRESSION AND NON VIOLENT RESISTANCE AGAINST APARTHEID

  1. 16.1.SACP BANNED
  2. 16.2.ANC PROGRAMME OF ACTION
  3. 16.3.THE RESISTANCE CAMPAIGN
  4. 16.4.FREEDOM CHARTER AND HIGH TREASON TRIAL
  5. 16.5.WOMEN'S MARCH

THE USE OF NATURAL RESOURCES

  1. 17.1.RENEWABLE AND NON RENEWABLE RESOURCES
  2. 17.2.EFFECTS OF UNWISE USE OF RESOURCES

SUSTAINABLE USE OF RESOURCES

  1. 18.1.CONCEPTS OF SUSTAINABLE AND UNSUSTAINABLE RESOURCE USE
  2. 18.2.WAYS RESOURCES MAY BE USED SUSTAINABLY
  3. 18.3.ROLE OF CONSUMERS

FOOD RESOURCES

  1. 19.1.CONCEPT OF FOOD SECURITY; LOCAL, REGIONAL AND GLOBAL
  2. 19.2.ROLE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
  3. 19.3.SUSTAINABLE FARMING

1960; THE SHARPEVILLE MASSACRE AND THE LANGA MARCH

  1. 20.1.EMERGENCE OF THE PAC, CAUSES, LEADERS, EVENTS, AND CONSEQUENCES

1976 SOWETO UPRISING

  1. 21.1.CAUSES, LEADERS, THE EVENTS OF JUNE 16

1990; RELEASE OF NELSON MANDELA AND THE UNBANNING OF THE FREEDOM MOVEMENTS

  1. 22.1.EVENTS LEADING UP TO THE 1994 ELECTION (BROADLY SPEAKING)

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