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AfricanAmericans.comhas a variety of information for teachers of grades K-12. These resources are kept up-to-date in order to provide general and in-depth information about Africa and African Americans. Below are some of the available materials that are relevant to K-12 schools and education.
Africa Stories Project
Ten ninth-grade students wrote fictional short stories, set in a continent where they had never been: Africa. Before writing, the students studied African culture, geography, and practiced fiction- writing as part of their interdisciplinary studies at Huron High School in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
http://www.umich.edu/~aaps/africa_stories/
African & African American Studies
Information on Teaching African and African American History. Managed by the African & African American Studies Department, the School District of Philadelphia, USA. The Department serves public, private, and parochial schools; administrative offices; and local community organizations (parent groups, universities, museums, newspapers, communication media, etc.).
http://www.phila.k12.pa.us/ll/curriculumsupport/aastudies/african&american.html
African Odyssey Interactive
The African Odyssey Interactive (AOI) site is aimed towards promoting the interactive exchange of ideas, information, and resources between artists, teachers, and students of African art and culture.
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/aoi/
African Festivals in American Schools
African Festivals in American Schools has evolved out of Arthur Hall's years of experience (and discipline and technique) in transposing these traditional concepts to the concert stage and the classroom. The sense of community comes from meaningful dances, appropriate for each student's age and ability, adapted to express the reality that the school is, in fact, a coherent community, albeit one which perhaps never before experienced itself as an African village.
http://www.agate.net/~ile/ahp/afias.html
Article, Papers and Abstracts (Ali Dinar)
These are published articles, papers and abstracts of general interest to African Studies that deal with issues of African economics, development, health, politics, and Afrocentricity.
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Articles_Gen/menu_Articles_Gen.html
Ask Eric: Lesson Plans
A searchable database for lesson plans, (try "Africa").
http://ericir.sunsite.syr.edu/
How Big is Africa?
Resources produced by the Outreach Program at Boston University includes a full-color poster of the map of Africa, and has also produced an introductory 30-minute videos discussing and dispelling stereotypes while providing a basic overview of Africa's geography, culture, and history (includes a
detailed curriculum guide).
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/K-12/buafr.html
K-12 African Studies (Ali Dinar)
These resources are suitable for K-12 teaching about Africa, and include African curriculum materials (see Appendix A for a sample menu), sample lesson plans (see Appendix B), library resources (see Appendix C), film reviews (see Appendix D), model lessons (See Appendix E), African history, African languages, teaching resources about Africa, and Africa in the Diaspora.
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/K-12/menu_K-12.html
K-12 Educational Resources (U of Wisconsin-Madison)
These resources include internet links that are geared toward K-12 students and teachers interested in bringing Africa into their classes and studies. Some of the materials, however, will be of interest to the general public as well.
http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/afrst/outreach/k-12.html
K-12 Schools in Africa
This include a list of K-12 Schools in some African countries, and internet links with some schools.
http://www.intlschools-k12.com/regions/africa.html
K-12: South Africa
The South African School Directory is the Internet guide to all K-12 schools, providing information and communication for teachers, students, parents, local communities and families planning a move.
http://www.sasd.com/sasdhome.htm
African Food etc.
This section includes listings of African restaurants and African recipes.
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Miscellany/menu_Miscellany.html
African Folk Tales And Mayan Myth
Includes curriculum unit for teaching African myths, legends, and Mayan myths, legends and folktales.
http://www.cis.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1996/1/96.01.03.x.html
Project Cape Town: Education and Integration in South Africa
Project Cape Town is a multimedia teaching case designed to encourage reflective practice in teachers. The case draws its material from three schools that were among the first to become integrated in South Africa. The events were filmed in November 1993 immediately before the approval of the constitution that governed elections which brought Nelson Mandela and the
African National Congress into parliamentary control.
http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/capetown/
Zimbabwe Education Outreach Project
This documentary tells the stories of six teenage students who won a merit/need-based scholarship that allows them to finish their secondary education in a government boarding school in Zimbabwe. The scholarship was originally named for Zimbabwe's late first lady, Sally Mugabe. It is sponsored by Students for Students International and is supported in Zimbabwe by the Child Survival and Development Foundation.
http://www.ibiblio.org/zimbabwe/
Culture Connection Cable Series
A monthly series of programs hosted by the Office of African and African American Studies. The program highlights topics, issues and themes that reflect the diverse African and African American cultural and historical experiences. Each session features unique resources which help to reconnect
the roots of African past to the richness of African American modern reality. To view a list of all the previous year programs and the script of each program that includes guest information, the vocabulary words and the Culture Connection questions click below.
http://www.phila.k12.pa.us/it/EC/IMedia/culconmore.html
Africa in the Classroom
A collection of on-line resources
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/K-12/chill.html
Directory: African History
This directory is compiled by "LookSmart" and currently has over 1,500 African history sites. Researchers can now look for African history resources by specifying an individual country, empire, kingdom, or historic figure.
http://www.looksmart.com/eus56155/
National Resource Centers (NRCs) for African Studies
Like UW-Madison, these centers have funding from the US Department of Education to support outreach to K-12 teachers and their students.
Boston University
http://www.bu.edu/afr/
Indiana University
http://www.indiana.edu/~afrist/
Michigan State University
http://www.isp.msu.edu/AfricanStudies/
Ohio State University
http://aaas.ohio-state.edu/
Ohio University
http://www.ohiou.edu/~african/main.htm
Stanford University
http://www-portfolio.stanford.edu/103667
University of California, Berkeley
http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~africa2/
University of California, Los Angeles
http://www.isop.ucla.edu/jscasc/
University of Florida
http://web.africa.ufl.edu/
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
http://wsi.cso.uiuc.edu/CAS/
University of Pennsylvania
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/AS.html
Yale University
http://www.cis.yale.edu/ycias/african/
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