K-12 Resources

• Penpals from around the world
   

• Africa Online -A current events site focusing on African cultures and affairs, with lots of pictures, graphics, short articles and topical information.
   

• Africam - Grades 4-12 - Here's a South African site that offers images and camera feeds from a variety of wildlife parks and refuges in Africa. There's no way to know exactly what you'll find, and the speed of your connection will certainly affect the performance, but you can find great images here.
   

• Civilizations in Africa - This site from Washington State University offers a college-level survey of the evolution of African tribal cultures over the past millennium. The text highlights the blending of nomadic tribal influences, as well as interactions with cultures in India and the mideast. Good information for a serious student, or for teachers who need additional background on the evolution of African cultures.
   

• African Voices - The Smithsonian has created a colorful, if sometimes awkward, resource for studying African history, art, and culture. The site features works by African sculptors and artists, but the African history time-line is the most useful instructional component. It shows African influences in Spain, the New World, and many other places. We hope the content for these sections will expand over time. Still, this is a very useful resource for explaining the evolution and spread of African cultural elements.
   

• Maps Of Africa A great database of African maps for geography/history teachers. This site offers many different maps on African countries …anything from vegetation to political (many political). There is also a range in years; some maps date back as far as 1975. This site may be useful if you’re looking for specific detail (agriculture in 1994); however, the map files are large and may take a while to download.
   

• South Africa History -This site, part of the Annenberg Center's collection of web lessons, offers a basic history of South Africa from early Dutch settlements through the establishment of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. In doing so, it explores the country's efforts to death with the legacy of Apartheid. This is a site that students could easily use on their own.
   

• The Story of Africa - The BBC's presentation of African history works forward from about 200 AD, examining cultures of various African regions and the influences of Islam, colonialism, and the like. There are extensive subdivisions, each with its own presentation, images, timeline, and resources. There's a wealth of information here for any study of Africa and its history.
   

• Time Line - Africa South of the Sahara - This site, part of the Web Chron series, presents a concise time line of events in Sub-Saharan Africa from about the year 1000 forward. There are links to additional specifics, which may involve more detail than secondary students need, but the overall flow of events is sufficient to show the extent to which functioning civilizations and governments were operating in Africa prior to the colonial period.
   

• Virtual Villages - Southern Africa This site from CNN chronicles the role which technology is playing at the local level in helping developing to overcome basic development issues. The site offers four case studies in the ways that the addition of small amounts of technolgy can create major changes in the ways that simple communities work and behave. Lots of interesting "why and how" lesson possibilities in this one.
   

• (African Folktales) Deep in the Bush Where People Rarely Go. Teachers in grades K-8 can use folktales to bring Africa alive in their classrooms. The site, developed by teacher Phillip Martin while serving as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Liberia, West Africa, includes lesson plans, the folktales, plays, African recipes, links to other African resources, and ideas for students to create and produce their own plays.
   

• Art and Life in Africa Project. Based on the project's CD-ROM, the site contains information on106 African peoples, profiles of 27 African countries and an online searchable Catalogue of the Stanley Collection of Africa Art (with images and descriptions of over 500 items). For 47 lesson plans from K-12 teachers in Iowa based on the CD-ROM, click on Data Bank of Unit Designs (Lesson Plans) for K-12 Teachers.
   

• Mr. Donn's Ancient History Page. Designed for middle school students, the site features lesson plans, work sheets, time lines, clip art, and maps for Archeology, Early Man, Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, Rome, China, India, Africa, Inca/Maya/Aztecs/ and others.
   

• Life in Africa
  The Life in Africa Foundation is an Internet based organisation incorporated in Uganda to propagate educational, inspirational and cultural ideas about contemporary life in Africa to a global audience, through presenting literature, art and photography from the African continent, and we support microfinance through guaranteeing low-cost loans for Africans.
   

• Zoom School
  A searchable "on-line elementary school classroom with lessons in geography, biology, language arts, and early childhood activities." Geography covers Africa, Australia, Antarctica, Canada, the Great Wall of China, Japan, and the United States of America. Science/Biology contains astronomy, birds, butterflies, dinosaurs, sharks, whales, other mammals, and the rainforest. Also included is information about the aardvark, alligator, ape, beaver, Ice Age mammals, ladybug, manatee, panda, saber-toothed cat, and tiger. There are several illustrated dictionaries (including a bilingual picture dictionary available also in English-French, -Spanish, -German, or -Portuguese) as well as crafts projects
   

• Africaonline Kids
  Welcome to Kids Only! Here's your chance to learn about Africa.Read Rainbow Magazine-a Kenyan magazine for kids, play games and decode messages, learn about the over 1000 languages in Africa, meet African students on line, find a keypal, or just browse around.
   

• PBS' Kids' Africa
  Explore the world wide web with Anansi, the African spider who loves adventures. So, join Anansi in a treasure hunt called The Quest for the Magic Calabash! You can also find offline activities.
   

• Meet Kids from South Africa
  Get to know kids like you who live in South Africa. You can find out about their interests, sports, histories, and more through this resource by scholastic.
   

• AfriSchool
  AfriSchool is a virtual classroom, educating children around the world about Africa’s beautiful environment and diverse wildlife, and it is free, flexible and available all around the world. AfriSchool was born out of a relationship that developed on the AfriCam chat between a teacher, Diana, in Alberta, Canada, and several dedicated AfriCam community members. A very special thanks to Sandy and Alan Morton who were vital in the formation of what has grown to be the successful AfriSchool as we know it today.
   

• 21st Century Schoolhouse
  Links to schools in Uganda and Botswana
   

• Africa Quest
  Welcome to AfricaQuest! From October 5 through November 13 a team of adventurers and experts bicycled through the Rift Valley in search of answers to Africa's greatest mysteries
   

• Just for Kids
  ... Namib Desert Adventures. Discover Okavango. Colors for Africa --Children's Story. Africa Online: Kids.
   

• RaJean and Co. Cultural Education Concepts
  Themes: PEOPLE AND ENVIRONMENT ,PEOPLE IN SOCIETY , PEOPLE AND THEIR BELIEFS
   

• http://www.kidsdomain.com/down/pc/africass.html
   

• African Crafts Online
  A few ideas for the classroom to get started, but we're hoping to bring many more lesson plans and educational materials in the future. And we're planning on facilitating cooperative projects between schoolchildren in Africa and the rest of the world.
   

• Orientation: the regional search directory
  This is a great directory of information about Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe, and Latin America, organized by subject. Find resources on arts and activities, business and trade, events past and present, facts and information, ideas and institutions, people and cultures, science and technology, and travel and exploration.
   

• Tales, Fables, and Stories from Africa
  The mouse goes everywhere - into rich people's homes and into the poorest people's homes. In the old days the mouse made stories from all that she saw. Stories were her children. Each story-child had its dress - white, blue, red, green, and black. The stories lived in her house and did everything for her. One day a sheep ran against the door of the house where the mouse lived. The door was old, it broke, and all the stories ran out. Now they run up and down over all the earth.
   

• Tropical Rain Forest
  Of all the many and varied natural environments to be found on the earth, perhaps the most awe-inspiring and popular are the tropical rain forests. Although it is the forests of the Amazon which spring most readily to mind, it is important to remember that they also occur in parts of North America, Asia, Australia, and Africa.
  

• Virtual Journey of Togo
  One of the smallest countries in West Africa, never more than 120km wide at any point, Togo is a long narrow country stretching up from the lively maritime region on the Gulf of Guinea to the hot, dry savannahs of the remote North-west.

• Congo Gorilla Forest
  Welcome to the Wildlife Conservation Society's Grand Opening of the amazing, new Congo Gorilla Forest exhibit at the Bronx Zoo. This huge 6.5 acre African rain forest environment explains WHAT a rain forest is, HOW it works, WHICH animals make it their home, WHY it is threatened and HOW people can help save it.