Interactive Websites for Use in the Classroom

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.

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.

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.

Brown University's Animated Atlas of African History http://www.brown.edu/Research/AAAH/ The Animated Atlas of African History (AAAH) is a Flash Animation that presents the changing map of Africa year-by-year from 1879 through 2002.  It uses symbols and color coding to depict selected events in political and economic history.  Users control the speed and direction of the animation and choose which features to display.  It can be downloaded or operated through a web interface.

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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