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Africa Online - Grades 6-12 - 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 - Teachers and AP students - This artfully crafted 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 - Grades 6-12 - 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 - Grades 6-12 - Source: University of Texas at Austin; last updated 3/98 - Special features: 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 - Grades 6-8 - 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 - Grades 9-12 - 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 - Grades 6-12 - 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 - Grades 9-12 - 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.

 

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