{"id":444,"date":"2010-10-04T14:17:42","date_gmt":"2010-10-04T18:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/outreach\/tips\/wildlife\/"},"modified":"2023-02-16T10:18:48","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T15:18:48","slug":"wildlife","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/outreach\/teachingresources\/elementary-2\/wildlife\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching About African Wildlife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/africa\/files\/2020\/11\/Do-Africans-See-Wildlife.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/africa\/files\/2020\/11\/Do-Africans-See-Wildlife-429x636.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"234\" height=\"347\" class=\"alignright wp-image-18139\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/files\/2020\/11\/Do-Africans-See-Wildlife-429x636.png 429w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/files\/2020\/11\/Do-Africans-See-Wildlife-691x1024.png 691w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/files\/2020\/11\/Do-Africans-See-Wildlife-768x1138.png 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/files\/2020\/11\/Do-Africans-See-Wildlife.png 805w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 234px) 100vw, 234px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Students in the U.S. generally have a fascination with animals. While this is wonderful, it is a serious problem when they associate Africa with animals only. Perhaps your students would be interested in contextualizing animals. You\u00a0could start out your unit without any of the expensive materials with a simple,\u00a0provocative and true statement for discussion: Most Africans have never seen\u00a0wild animals. The next step would be to ask your students to hypothesize why\u00a0animals are so big in our imagination of Africa and why we in the U.S. focus so\u00a0much attention on animals when we look at Africa. This will lead your students\u00a0to an important question: how do we get our ideas about the world, especially\u00a0about Africa?<\/p>\n<p>It might interest your students to know that many and probably most African capitals have zoos.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Having said all this, your first response as a teacher may be a chagrined &#8216;I didn&#8217;t know that!&#8217; I want you to know that I hear this frequently because rarely have we gotten the chance to really learn about Africa and to unlearn the stereotypes that are still in the air we breathe.<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"\/africa\/files\/2016\/02\/Brown-Wildlife-2008.pdf\">&#8220;Beyond Wildlife: Teaching About Africa and Stereotypes&#8221; <em>Social Studies and the Young Learner<\/em> Article (2008)<\/a><\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"\/africa\/files\/2016\/02\/Brown-Wildlife-2008.pdf\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/outreach\/ordering\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/africa\/files\/2021\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-08-11-at-10.59.55-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"332\" height=\"106\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-19658 size-full\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students in the U.S. generally have a fascination with animals. While this is wonderful, it is a serious problem when they associate Africa with animals only. Perhaps your students would be interested in contextualizing animals. You\u00a0could start out your unit without any of the expensive materials with a simple,\u00a0provocative and true statement for discussion: Most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":19423,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/444"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23005,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/444\/revisions\/23005"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}