African and South African Links
Pagee
(Scroll down the page for lesson plans)
General African Links:
Aardvark (an African Internet search engine)
Afrol.com (Your portal
to Africa!)
History
of Africa (World History Archives)
African Geography
Africa (a long list of links)
Africam
Africa:
Country-Specific Information
All Africa.com (a good source for news and
information)
The Africa Quiz (an on-line
African geography quiz)
Africa South of the Sahara
An Abstract History of Africa South of
the Sahara
African
Diaspora (A brief overview)
Exploring the African
Diaspora (More information than the above site)
South African Links:
South African Embassy in Washington D. C.
South African Internet Resources (a
well-indexed directory)
Countries: South Africa
(information on a long list of topics)
Links2Go: South Africa
Museums Online: South Africa
South African
Apartheid (history, timeline, etc.)
A Brief History of South Africa
(an excellent site)
A South
African Timeline
Project Cape Town (a multimedia
project on integration in South African schools)
Spotlight on Parliament
(information on South Africa's Parliament)
African National Congress (homepage of the
majority political party in South Africa)
The Mandella Page (information
and resources for Nelson Mandella)
Desmond Tutu - A
Man with a Mission
Lesson Plans and Units for Teaching About Africa:
African Studies: K-12
Educational Resources
Resources, units, and lesson plans.
Africa:
It's not a Country
A large collection of elementary lesson plans.
Africa: One Continent,
Many Worlds
A nice collection of lesson plans and resources for a variety of grade levels.
African Geography and Culture
One of the categories of lesson plans from Africa: One Continent, Many
Worlds.
Africa
A lesson for grades 4-6 in which students locate geographical features on a map of Africa.
African
Geography
A high school lesson plan.
African
Geography
Another high school lesson plan. This one is designed to introduce French students to
Francophone Africa.
The
Sahara Desert
An early elementary lesson plan in which students create a watercolor picture of the
Sahara Desert and label it.
Rivers of Africa
Six lesson plans for the 6th grade.
The
Seven Natural Wonders of Africa
Another early elementary lesson.
South African Apartheid
A high school lesson plan.
Appreciating
Freedom: An End to Apartheid in South Africa
A 2nd-grade lesson plan.
South
Africa: The Day the Apartheid Ended
A lesson plan for the primary or intermediate grades.
Indian
Migration to South Africa and the Struggle Against Racial Discrimination
A lesson plan from National
History Day.
The Atlantic Slave Trade
An on-line simulation.
Early African Kingdoms
A 4th-grade lesson plan.
Deep in the
Bush Where Teachers Rarely
A lesson plan on African folktales for grades 4-6.
The 19th Century World
A secondary lesson on colonial rule of Africa by European nations.
What is
Currency? Lessons from Historic Africa
Three lesson plans for grades 3-8.
Unfolding the Mystery of
Timbuktu
A 6th-grade unit examining the the history of the ancient African city of Timbuktu.
Countries
of Africa
An Internet-based high school lesson plan.
What Is It Like to Live
in a Village in Kenya?
Sixth-grade lesson plans. For other lesson plans on specific African countries, click here, then scroll
down the page.
Oral
Traditions in Africa
A lesson that can be adapted to a variety of grade levels.
African
Safari
An Internet-based lesson.
African Animals: Can
They Survive?
Seven lesson plans for 6th grade.
African Deforestation
and Desrtification
More lesson plans for 6th grade.
Africa
Falls Prey To H.I.V.
A lesson plan for grades 6-12.
African Art
An elementary lesson plan on African masks, shields and "Kente" Placemats.