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• CULTURE
• TEACHING AFRICA
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PEN PAL & GLOBAL PROJECTS
ePals
http://www.epals.com
• Interactive Index to ePals Around the World
http://www.epals.com/search/maps/africa
World Map
ePALS states that it is the worldʼs largest online classroom community because of its easy-to-use tools,
innovative projects and, their members.
(If youʼre looking to offer these kinds of resources and more to an entire school or district, consider
www.epals.com/schoolmail ePALS SchoolMail The Leading Solution for K-12 Student Safe Email!)
Kid’s Space
Connections
http://www.ks-connection.org
Kidsʼ Space Connection states that it is an international meeting place for children and schoolteacers.
Find pen pals from around the world. Check out projects to which one can contribute and clubs to join.
Use KS Messaging Center as a safe tool for communication. It was designed so that both teachers and
children under 13 years of age can benefit from the Internet, free from worry.
Windows on
the World
http://www.wotw.org.uk
Windows on the World is a free, easy to use resource for schools and colleges seeking
international links.
Teachers can search the database for details of thousands of schools worldwide and may register their
own school details for others to view.
Letter or Email
Exchange
Project
People to People International
http://www.ptpi.org/programs/school_class_proj_letter.html
The PTPI School and Classroom Program encourages classrooms to build the foundation of their relationship with a project that acquaints students with those of their partner classroom.
Transparent
Language
http://www.transparent.com
Listen to/Learn Survival Phrases in the language of your choice
.
Arabic • http://www.learn-arabic-language-software.com/phrases/FSArabic.htm
Swahili
French
• http://www.transparent.com/languagepages/swahili/FSSwahili.htm
• http://www.learn-french-language-software.com/phrases/FSFrench.htm
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CULTURE
Culture
UNESCO’s Culture sector
http://portal.unesco.org - then click on “Culture”
Links Include: World Heritage, Tangible Heritage, Intangible Heritage, Cultural Diversity,
Normative Action, Intercultural Dialogue, Culture and Development, Cultural Industries,
Arts and Creativity, Copyright, Museums, Cultural Tourism, and Special Focus.
UNESCO is the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
The Culture
Concept
http://fga.freac.fsu.edu/academy/culture.htm
Marsha Yoder and Maureen Robinson
The Culture Concept is a 3 week unit designed for Middle Schoolers.
Table of Contents: What is Culture?, Groups and Institutions, Learning about People,
Cultural Change.
Part of the Florida State University Geographic Education and Technology Programʼs
collection of lesson plans.
Culture
Matters
What is
Culture?
http://www.peacecorps.gov/wws/students/culturematters/index.html
An on-line, six-chapter, cross-cultural training workbook for 8th grade to college readers.
Washington State University, Pullman, WA
http://www.wsu.edu:8001/vcwsu/commons/topics/culture
Explore the Learning Topic, Culture, in any order you like. College reading level
with quite a few images and other graphics that add interest.
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TEACHING AFRICA: LESSONS & RESOURCES
African
Studies
Center
University of Pennsylvania K-12 Electronic Guide
http://www.africa.upenn.edu • click K-12 link under General Resources
Links include: K-12 Information, Country-Specific, Multimedia Archive, Africa in the
Library, Environment in Africa, Travel in Africa, African-American, General Resources,
Lesson Plans, and K-12 Workshops.
See the African Web Links: Annotated Resource list at
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Home_Page/WWW_Links.html
African
Studies
Resources
Art & Life
in Africa
Project
Africa—
Related Links
Princeton University Library
http://www.princeton.edu/~pressman/africa.html
Links include: General African Sites, Facts on Africa, Electronic Indexes & Journals, News &
Listserves, Library & Newspaper Catalogues, Organizations, and Princeton Resources.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~africart
Links include: Art and Life in Africa Online, Searchable Index of Streaming Video, African
Pottery Forming & Firing, The Art of Burkino Faso, People Resources (107 African Cultures
Profiled), Countries Resources, Databank of Lesson Plans (K-12), and many more.
African Studies Program - University of Wisconsin
http://africa.wisc.edu/links/index.htm
Covers a wide variety of topics.
Sub-Saharan
Africa
Internet Resource Library
http://tlc.ousd.k12.ca.us/library/africa/index.html
Links include: Sites for Kids, Maps & Timelines, Geography & Maps, African Art,
Educational Projects, Internet Workshop, History: West, Africa, Ethiopia & Zimbabwe,
African Culture, Curriculum Guides, Additional Resources.
The Story
of Africa
Teaching
Africa:
Activities and
Resources
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica/index.shtml
African History from the Dawn of Time told from an African perspective.
http://www.sonoma.edu/projects/nbisp/africa/index.html
Link headings include: The Africa Inquiry Conference 2001, Resources Links for African
Studies, Lesson Plans for Teaching Africa, Resource Links for Teachers.
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VIRTUAL FIELD TRIPS
National
Geographic
Adventure and Exploration Index
http://www.nationalgeographic.com
Expedition: Ancient Egypt
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/egyptjournal
Egypt: Secrets of an Ancient World
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/pyramids
Congo Trek
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/congotrek
The Odyssey:
Africa Stage
Utah LINK
http://www.worldtrek.org/odyssey/africa/timeaf.html
The trip was taken in 1999. The interactive site remains but students cannot contact
trip members or leaders. Links include: South Africa to Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe Stay,
West Africa & Mali Stay, Morocco to Egypt, and Egypt Stay.
Utah Education Network Virtual Tours
http://www.uen.org/utahlink/tours/ ]http://www.uen.org/utahlink/tours
Religion of Ancient Egypt
http://www.uen.org/utahlink/tours/tourFames.cgi?tour_id=18039
Tunisia Today
http://www.uen.org/utahlink/tours/fieldtrips2.cgi?core_area_id=4
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OTHER RESOURCES
Africa
Bibliography
Internet School Library Media Center’s
Multicultural Resources for Children
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/mulafrican.htm
Africa Resources: Folktales, Biography, Poetry, Nonfiction
African
Voices
Smithsonian Natural History Web
http://www.mnh.si.edu/africanvoices
Smithsonian: In this web site, explore objects that attest to Africaʼs striking diversity and long
history. Listen as Africans talk about their lives and cultures. Discover your connections to
Africa.
African
Voices
Archived
Web Cast
African
Voices
Project
African
Governments
on the Web
Africa—
Country
Overviews
for Teachers
All Africa.com
Apple’s Learning Interchange
http://ali.apple.com/ali_sites/ali/exhibits/1000690/
Two versions of the web cast are available. Choose the one most suited
to your Internet connection speed.
Schenectady City School District, NY
http://www.projectview.org/afvo.htm
See especially the section “Pen Pals in Africa”
http://www.projectview.org/afvo.penpals.htm
http://africangovernments.tripod.com
Each link takes you to the official government site for that countryif the link is active.
Several were not active.
http://www.africacentre.org • click K-12 under Internet Resources
“The Foundation for African Resources is a non-profit program aimed at increasing social
awareness and knowledge of Africa by providing information, materials and services to
local and national, schools, libraries, media and communities. By providing comprehensive
information the Foundation hopes to, motivate individuals and organizations towards positive
action and support of sustainable policies, as well as fostering an understating an appreciation
of a complex continent.”
http://www.allafrica.com
All Africa Global Media is a multi-media content service provider, systems technology
developer, and the largest electronic distributor of African news and information worldwide.
Registered in Mauritius, with offices in Johannesburg, Dakar, Lagos and Washington, D.C.,
All Africa is one of a family of companies that aggregate, produce, and distribute news from
across Africa to tens of millions of end users.
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African
Recipes &
Cooking
Tips
Knowledgehound. com
http://www.knowledgehound.com/topics/africanr.htm
Example: From Tanzania, Ugali - stiff, steamed porridge usually made from maize.
(a.k.a. South Africa: Mealie-meal, Zimbabwe: Sada, and West Africa: Banku)
• 1 L (1¾) water or water and milk combine,
• 60 g (2 oz) butter,
• Salt to taste (optional),
• 500 mg (1 lb) corn (maize), millet, gari (coarse cassava powder)
or sorghum flour.)
If you cannot find the link at the Knowledge Hound site, a direct link to Ugali is
http://www.doth.com/kwanzaa/africa/facts1/recipes1.htm#TANZANIA
BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/default.stm
—Africa
British Broadcasting Company - World Edition - Africa Page
Channel
Africa
http://www.channelafrica.org/english/dateline.html
Content Standards
Programs in English. Listen to archived or live broadcasts from Channel Africa
in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Ohio Department of Education
English Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, Arts,
Foreign Language, Technology, Library
http://www.ode.state.oh.us/Academic_Content_Standards
Work and Family Life
http://www.ode.state.oh.us
CIA - The
World
Factbook
Countries of
the World
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook
Home Page of the CIA World Factbook. See the drop down menu
to select a country. Also, see other available links.
http://www.theodora.com/wfb
Data from the CIA World Factbooks from the past 15 years. Also has data from the United
Nations Statistical Office, the Library of Congress Country Studies and other sources.
Human
Development
Reports
Statistics
http://hdr.undp.org/statistics
Download Adobe Acrobat Files on thirty different themes for specific countries or for regions
of the world. See the small search window on the upper right of the web page to make your
choices. Some of the themes are: Education, Gender, Democracy, Poverty, Human Rights,
Peace & Security and many more.
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The Index
on Africa
The Norwegian Council for Africa - in English
http://www.afrika.no/index
Major headings include: Countries, News Sources, and Subjects—At Large, Business,
Conflict, Culture, Development, Education, Environment, Health, History, Human Rights,
Information Technology, Politics, Tourism, Trade Unions and Labor Issues, and United nations.
NewsHour
Online:
Africa
The Long
Walk of
Nelson
Mandella
Secrets of the
Pharaohs
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/africa/africa.html
Archived Africa: Background Reports—from the PBS show The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
Frontline - PBS
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/mandela/
The site chronicles the life of South Africaʼs first democratically elected president,
from boyhood to retirement from public life.
Other PBS Shows About Africa
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/pharaohs/
Headings include: About the [PBS] Series, Timeline of the Pharaohs, Historical Maps,
Digging Deeper, Secrets and Science, and Additional Resources
Hopes on the
Horizon
National
Museum of
African Art
http://www.pbs.org/hopes/audio.html
Use Real Player to listen to an archived thirty minute radio broadcast: South Africa:
The Womenʼs Anti-Pass Campaign 56k and DSL/Cable versions are available.
Smithsonian Institution
http://www.nmafa.si.edu
http://www.pbs.org/hopes/video.html • click Nigeria link
Use Real Player to view an archived segment from the show Hopes on the Horizon.
The segment is about Nigeraʼs militant youth members of the United Action for Democracy,
a coalition of pro-democracy group that planned a five million man march in the southern
city of Lagos in 1998.
Water in
Africa
Peace Corps
http://www.peacecorps.gov/wws/water/africa
Headings include: About the Project, Resources, Lesson Plans, and a map of the continent
with links to many countries in Africa including South Africa, Tanzania, and Kenya.
Go to a country and click on “Stories” to read comments on that countryʼs water by
Peace Corps volunteers.
What is
Africa
to Me?
http://www.pbs.org/wonders/fr_wh.htm
Read what people have said on the topic “What is Africa to Me?” Respondents include
African-Americans, tourists, and citizens of Africa.
Part of the PBS web site about their series Wonders of the African World.
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RELIGION
Africa:
Religious Studies
Belief Systems
in Africa–
WorldViews
Islam Primer
African Studies Center - University of Pennsylvania
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/About_African/ww_relig.html
http://worldviews.igc.org/awpguide/relig.html
Indigenous, Islamic, Christian
Factmonster.com
http://www.factmonster.com/spot/islam.html
Headings include: Introduction to Islam, Islamic Beliefs, Muhammad: Prophet of
Islam, Glossary of Islam, Islam in America, Islamic Holidays, 2002-2006, Ramadan,
Quiz: Islam, Islamic Religion; Philosophy, Literature and the Art of the Islamic
World, and Recommended Sites.
The Maasai
Religion
Religion in
Africa
St. Martins College, Division of Religion and Philosphy
United Kingdom
http://philtar.ucsm.ac.uk/encyclopedia/sub/maasai.html
Teacher’s Curriculum - Michigan State University
http://ex.matrix.msu.edu/africa/curriculum/lm14/intro.html
See the rest of MSUʼs African Curriculum for teachers at:
http://ex.matrix.msu.edu/africa/curriculum
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SERVICE LEARNING
National
Service–
Learning
Clearinghouse
Charity
Navigator
http://www.servicelearning.org
The national site for Service-Learning information.
http://www.charitynavigator.org
• Charity Navigator bills itself as an independent charity evaluator that works
to advance a more efficient and responsive philanthropic marketplace by
evaluating the financial health of Americaʼs largest charities.
• Charities listed below were found in the Charity Navigator search results
for the category International.
Africare
http://www.africare.org
Charity Navigator Rating – 5 stars
Americares
http://www.americares.org/main.asp
Charity Navigator Rating – 5 stars
Books for Africa
http://www.booksforafrica.org
Charity Navigator Rating – 5 stars
CARE
http://www.careusa.org/campaigns/index.asp
Charity Navigator Rating – 3 Stars
Children’s Hunger Fund
http://www.childrenshungerfund.org
Charity Navigator Rating – 5 stars
International Medical Equipment Collaborative
http://www.imecamerica.org/index.cfm
Charity Navigator Rating – 5 stars
Project Hope
http://www.projecthope.org
Charity Navigator Rating – 5 stars
UNICEF
http://www.unicef.org/whatwedo/index.html
Charity Navigator Rating – 3 stars
World Education
http://www.worlded.org
Charity Navigator Rating – 5 stars
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CRITICAL THINKING
K-12
Critical
Thinking
Library
Critical
Thinking
Consortium
Critical
Thinking
Resources
Center for Critical Thinking
http://www.criticalthinking.org/K12/K12libdir.html
The Library provides primary and secondary educators with a range of articles on critical
thinking. Headings include: Fundamentals of Critical Thinking, The Role of Questioning,
and Micropublications
Classroom Material
http://www.criticalthinking.org/K12/k12class/trc.html
Tactics that Encourage Active Listening
http://www.criticalthinking.org/K12/k12class/tactics.html
Longview Community College
http://www.kcmetro.cc.mo.us/longview/ctac/toc.htm
Headings include: Indroductory Level Resources, Core Concepts, Establishing the Truth of
a Premise, Informal fallacies of Reasoning, Additional Topics, and External Resources
Critical
Thinking
Skills
NCREL - North Regional Educational Laboratory
Evaluating
Web
Resoruces
Widdner University—Wolfgram Memorial Library
http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/envrnmnt/drugfree/sa3crit.htm
http://www2.widener.edu/Wolfgram-Memorial-Library/webevaluation/examples.htm
The site includes a checklist for evaluating different types of web pages, a PowerPoint
presentation of Web Resource Evaluation Techniques, and selected web sites lists to use
as a basis to teach skills such as Authority, Accuracy, Objectivity, Currency, Coverage, etc.
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TEACHING STUDENTS HOW TO
CONDUCT RESEARCH PROJECTS
Helping Students to
Avoid Plagiarism
and Academic
Dishonesty
Online Research
Guide
Teaching Students
How to do Online
Research
Writing Research
and I-Search
Papers
Texas A&M University
http://library.tamu.edu/vgn/portal/tamulib/content/renderer/footer/
0,2876,1724_1001628,00.html
Sprinfield Township High Shool Virtual Library, Pennsylvania
http://www.springfield.k12.pa.us/rguide
Techlearning.com
http://www.techlearning.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=10810514
Web English Teacher
http://www.webenglishteacher.com/research.html
FIRDOZE BULBULIA
About
Firdoze Bulbulia
http://www.ohiou.edu/aas/happenings/conf/firdoze.html
ADDITIONAL MATERIALS
National Resource
Center for Africa
PBS
Ohio Universityʼs Africa Studies Program, a U.S. Department of Education funded
National Resource Center for Africa, is developing lending library materials to
complement the Pen Palsʼ series. These materials will be available in October, 2004.
For more information visit the African Studies web sit at:
http://www.ohiou.edu/african/main.htm
PBS Teach/Source
http://www.pbs.org/teachersource
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