Classroom Materials on Africa

PBS http://www.pbs.org/wnet/africa This site includes cross-curricular lessons for grades 3-12. It covers topics such as music, geography, science and culture. Downloadable materials are also available. The site includes an interactive section with maps and both interviews and testimonies from the perspective of African children. and Journey with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Wonders of the African World http://www.pbs.org/wonders/main.htm This site has great information for everyone, but is especially great for teachers who have internet access in their classrooms! This incredible site explores six facets of ancient Africa and includes many tools for your classroom activities: lesson plans, video clips, images, interactive games and fun downloads.

Indiana University http://www.indiana.edu/%7Eafrist/artifact.html This site is comprised of images and detailed descriptions of African artifacts.

Ohio University http://oia.osu.edu/cas/outreach_1.htm This site includes information on how to order DVDs for purchase on Somali history and culture and on how to request a powerpoint presentation on HIV/AIDS in Africa.

Teach Global Ed http://www.coe.ohio-state.edu/globaled/home.cfm This site is very user-friendly and provides links with valuable information for global and area studies units. There are links to embassies, African centers and orgranizations, sites from which videos and films can be purchased and sites that aid in connecting American and African students.

Stanford University Africa South of the Sahara http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/history/hisk12.html Part of Stanford's excellent on-line catalog of internet resources on Africa. Exhaustive, searchable, and browsable. The guide also includes an excellent page on grant opportunities.

University of Virginia The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/slavery/ Contains over 1000 images on slavery in Africa, the middle passage, and slave life in the Americas. This is a great source for visual images. It includes maps of pre-colonial and modern Africa, trade routes, the Americas and a variety of other images connecting African to the "New World."

Gender and Cultural Contact in South Africa http://chnm.gmu.edu/wwh/lessons/lesson7/lesson7.php?s=0 This site brings to life and personalizes the African and European encounter in Southern Africa, while focusing on gender dynamics. The site includes primary documents and lesson plans for high school students, as well as the following helpful resources: techniques for analyzing sources, strategies for teaching about gender and culture in Africa, and bibliographies.

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign http://www.afrst.uiuc.edu/Outreach/K-12/teachermaterials.htm This site has numerous links to resources and materials, including interactive visual arts lessons, African newspapers, magazines and radio stations, and reviews of child materials and maps.

Olivier Blot, Journaliste Africaniste http://olblot.free.fr/cariboost1/index.html This French website offers numerous West African images of nature, people and architecture.

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