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Africa: K-12 Studies
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K-12 Africa Guide
The aim of this guide is to assist K-12 teachers, librarians, and students in locating on-line resources on Africa that can be used in the classroom, for research and studies. This guide summarizes some relevant materials for K-12 uses available on Pe
nn African Studies WWW site.
Africa Access
This electronic guide to children's materials on Africa is provided by
Africa Access, a bibliographic and review service that specializes in the
analysis of children's materials on Africa.
AFRICA: One Continent. Many
Worlds
This site is designed to provide the educator with the knowledge and
tools to bring the experience to the classroom.The web site includes scores
of classroom activities, and handouts.
Videotapes: Media
Catalog. UW-Madison Digital Collections: Africa Focus: Sights and Sounds of a Continent.
Africa Focus brings together, in digital form, two categories of primary and secondary resources: research and teaching materials collected by University of Wisconsin faculty and staff; and unique or valuable items related to these fields held by the University of Wisconsin Libraries.
The Educator's Reference Desk
The Educator's Reference Desk provides access to a resource collection with links to over 3000 resources on a variety of educational issues; more than 2000 unique lesson plans written and submitted by teachers from all over the United States and a question archive which is a collection of over 200 responses to popular questions on the practice, theory, and research of education.
ERIC Database
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC), sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education, produces the world’s premier database of journal and non-journal education literature. The ERIC online system provides the public with a centralized ERIC Web site for searching the ERIC bibliographic database of more than 1.1 million citations going back to 1966.
Discovery Channel School
Discovery Channel School features hundreds of pages of lesson ideas
and activities for 30 hours of commercial-free classroom television programming
airing this season on Discovery Channel and the Learning Channel.
The W.E.B. Du Bois Virtual University
The W.E.B. Du Bois Virtual University is a series of pages detailing various aspects of Du Bois
studies. It is hoped that the University will serve as a clearinghouse for information on Du
Bois and spur intelligent scholarship and discussion of his life, legacy, and works.
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.
South Africa:
Can a Country Overcome its History?
In this exhibit, find out more about South Africa's past and what people
are doing to ensure a good future. Through five interactive timeline puzzles,
you'll learn about the events that shaped the country, from its first colonization
to the discovery of diamonds and gold and the turmoil of the apartheid
years. You can also explore a wealth of related Web sites.
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