Video:
The Salt Road
Book:
Treasures of the World,
Scott Foresman, 1991
The State of the Earth Atlas
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African Stories
http://www.umich.edu/
~aaps/africa_stories/
Description: This site, developed by Huron
High School students, retells African stories from ancient and modern times.
The site also offers an opportunty for students to e-mail their responses
to these stories.
Comments: This is a model for the type of
student project other schools could do.
Resource Type: Literature/Story
Graphics Content: High
Annenburg/CPB Projects Exhbits Collection:Collapse
of Empires
http://www.learner.org/
exhibits/collapse/
Description: Explore the collapse of four
ancient civilizations, including the Maya and Mali and Songhai. Are there
common reasons for such collapses? Written in student friendly text with
links to related and valuable resources.
Comments: Also connects to Mesoptamia, Chaco
Canyon, and some difficult primary sources.
Resource Type: Mix of Text and Graphics
Graphics Content: High
Kennedy Center African Odyssey Interactive
http://artsedge.kennedy-
center.org/odyssey.html
Description: This site, developed through
the Kennedy Center, has material on African history and culture from early
times through modern. It is a little difficult to navigate.
Comments: Reading is dense for many students
so it would be best to break it into small sections.
Resource Type: Secondary Text
Graphics Content: High
Mali
http://www.xula.edu/~
jrotondo/Kingdoms/Mali/
MaliHistNarr.htm
Description: This site includes a short history
of Mali, information on its African neighbors, interactive tests, links,
an art gallery, maps and links to Songhay.
Comments: A good source for teachers and students.
Interactive tests!
Resource Type: Other
Graphics Content: High
Multi-media Africa Archives
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/
African_Studies/K-12/menu_
EduMEDI.html
Description: Here are pictures and maps of
modern and historical Africa.
Resource Type: Compilation of Links
Graphics Content: High
Tabala Wolof: Sufi Drumming of Senegal
http://www.rootsworld.com/
rw/villagepulse/tabala.html
Description: Learn more about the Sufi of
the Wolof tribe and their musical style of drumming.
Comments: To download the audio you will need
to follow directions closely.
Resource Type: Sound or Music
Graphics Content: High
Adinkra Cloth Symbolism
http://www.erols.com/kemet
/adinkra.htm
Description: This site gives the background
of Adinkra cloth and the symbols found within it.
Comments: Good information for a report or
hands-on assignment.
Resource Type: Mix of Text and Graphics
Graphics Content: High
African Art Exhibition
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/
dic/exhib/93.ray.aa/
Exhibition.html
Description: This site is an exhibition of
African masks with both photos and information about the masks.
Comments: Thumbnail prints can be enlarged
to full screen.
Resource Type: Mix of Text and Graphics
Graphics Content: High
African Recipes
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/
African_Studies/Miscellany/
African_Recipes.html
Description: Some authentic recipes your students
can make. Also some interesting information on cooking with peanuts.
Comments: Students love to learn about food
and here's a good starting point.
Resource Type: Secondary Text
Graphics Content: Low
Africa: Odyssey Online.
Monuments built by Romans are found throughout
the Mediterranean and beyond. They were a physical connection between the
lands controlled by Rome and Rome herself - "caput mundi" - the capital
of the civilized world.
Description: Many aspects of daily life in
Africa are connected with rituals -- meals are blessed, homes are protected
by gods and spirits, and friends and families meet to celebrate with food
and drink. The daily court life of a Cameroon Grasslands kingdom is a good
illustration of how everyday activities and objects (like clothing, food
containers, and furniture) may be connected to ritual and prestige. The
physical and political center of every kingdom or chiefdom is the palace
of the Fon (king). The palace is the center of life around the king's court.
Comments: This site was developed by the Michael
Carlos Museum at Emory University.
Resource Type: Mix of Text and Graphics
Graphics Content: High
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Using ěThe Museum
Projectî and other Internet sites, each student will choose an area of
art within a region and develop a poster or mural that contains information
about the specific art as well as some printed
copy of the art. Students will color in
the print
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The Museum Project
http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/
activity/museumproj/
Working in teams by region, you will create
a Museum of African Art. Find art on the web and organize an exhibit for
others to see and learn. Each object must be annotated as to its origin
and significance so the museum so that visitors will come to understand
more about African culture.
Author: Carrie Zinn
Project Helping Hands
http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/
activity/prjhelp.html
In this problem based activity students develop
a program through a nonprofit organization "Africare" to improve the quality
of life in rural Africa by improving health care, growing more food, and
developing water resources while still protecting the environment
Author: Leanne Westphal
African Folktales Unit
http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/
score/afolk/afolktg.html
African proverbs provide insights into traditional
African culture that will expand your study of the African ancient cultures
of Ghana, Mali and Songhay.
Author: Lynn Patterson
Deep in the Bush, Where People Rarely Go
http://members.xoom.com/
PMartin/Bush/
bushhomepage.htm
Former Peace Corps volunteer in west Africa,
Phillip Martin has found that t is hard to get rid of preconceived stereotypes
about Africa It was just as surprising to my friends in America that I
saw no lions in West Africa as it was to my Liberian friends that I'd never
seen a policeman shoot a criminal on the streets of America. These kinds
of misconceptions can be clarified with the activities in this lesson which
draw from West African folk tales. This lesson has multiple activities
that address the curriculum for several grades and appeal to a wide grade
range of students.
Author: Phillip Martin
Unfolding Mystery of Timbuktu
http://multimedia2.freac.
fsu.edu/fga/academy/
aftimb.htm
Re-enact the silent rade and explore the geographic
factors that made Timbuktu an important city during the time of the Mali
and Songhay kingdoms. In this historical geography unit, students follow
the changes in the ancient African city of Timbuktu from its founding to
today.
Author: Ginny White
What is Currency? Lessons from Historic Africa
http://educate.si.edu/
resources/lessons/siyc/
currency/start.html
For more than four-hundred years, the Akan
people of Ghana in West Africa used a currency based on tiny grains of
gold called gold dust. This very desirable currency made the Akan a valued
trading partner to North African traders who crossed the Sahara Desert
by camel caravan and to seafaring Europeans who arrived on Africa's Atlantic
Coast in ships laden with goods. The Akan were able to enrich their own
lives by trading for goods with people of vastly different climates and
cultures. Explore the historic role of gold dust in African trade.
Author: Smithsonian in the Classroom
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Art should be pleasing and accompanied by
a written description of the work and
the artist. A simple map of the region should be included.
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