| Boston University African Studies Center 270 Bay State Road Boston, Massachusetts 02215 (617) 353-3673 email: africa@bu.edu www.bu.edu/africa |
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| Boston University African Studies Center 270 Bay State Road Boston, Massachusetts 02215 (617) 353-3673 email: africa@bu.edu www.bu.edu/africa |
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www.bu.edu/africa/outreach
a wide
range of resources organized by grade level: lesson plans, teaching tips, videos
(which can be borrowed), bibliographies for teaching, plus a great poster “How
Big Is Africa” for sale. Also ready for direct classroom use from our home
page is our interactive tutorial:
“Africa: true or false?: Come explore!”
a lively set of activities covering geography, history and politics.
www.allafrica.com
the best site for reading news + editorials
from across
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/ed.html
probably the best “mega site” for accessing
an enormous range of information, from very basic to highly specialized. Hot
links to many other sites and resources.
http://exploringafrica.matrix.msu.edu/teachers/curriculum
a fine set of lesson plans (with evaluation
built in) for teaching about Africa in middle school Co-developed by classroom
teachers and
http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/AfricaFocus/
sights and sounds from
www.africaaccessreview.org
the best database of book reviews for children
+ young adults, searchable by author, title, country, grade level as
well as level of recommendation (from “highly recommended”
to “not recommended”).
http://www.africa.upenn.edu/K-12/menu_EduKNTR.html
a website with many enry points and lesson plans
www.artsiteafrica.com
ArtsiteAfrica is a great guide to African Studies in the area of art and art History. There
is an excellent African American section and another section call "Lesson Plans."
Barbara B. Brown,
Director,
10/05