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Africa-Related Web Resources for Primary Schools
You may be interested to see our page on African
children's literature. We were surprised to find very few pages available on this
topic elsewhere on the web.
The following links may be useful for locating resources to develop other Internet
projects related to Africa. These examples are meant only to demonstrate the variety (and
limitations) of resources currently available. It is not intended to be comprehensive.
- Academy for Educational Development
- "An independent, nonprofit service organization committed to addressing human
development needs in the United States and throughout the world." One of their
offices, the Africa Bureau
Information Center, provides a number of full-text documents (in PDF format, which
requires use of the free Acrobat
reader) related to educational development issues in Africa on its web page.
[ABIC and links from USAID site map were down when checked May 28, 2004].
- African
Resources for the Classroom, BU
- To order a copy of the packet of handouts send $4.00 to Outreach, Studies Center, B.U.,
270 Bay State Road, Boston, MA 02215. Make checks payable to the African Studies Center.
- AfricaOnline:
African Schools
- A useful general information source for Africa in its own right, AfricaOnline is an important provider of Internet
services in several African countries (it is affiliated with Prodigy).
- Commonwealth of Learning
- "The Commonwealth of Learning is an international organisation created by
Commonwealth Heads of Government to encourage the development and sharing of open
learning/distance education resources and technologies. COL is helping developing nations
improve access to quality education and training."
- Corresponding with other
classes
- "My name is Sue Albrightson. I'm a teacher from the city of Pietermaritzburg in the
province (state) of Natal, South Africa. I would very much like the children in my class
to correspond with other children of a similar age/grade. The school where I teach at is
called Scottsville Primary School. It has about 1,000 pupils, ranging in age from 5-13
(Grade 0-7). My class is Grade 7 with 34 pupils whose average age is about 12 and a half.
The aim of this exercise is for my pupils to exchange ideas and find out about differing
lifestyles. If you teach a class of a similar age and would like the children in your
class to exchange the same information, I would love you to hear from you."
- Fowler Museum of
Cultural History
- Educational Resources at UCLA's Fowler Museum of Cultural History.
- K-12
Electronic Guide for African Resources on the Internet
- This site, created by Ali B. Ali-Dinar, Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania is
deservedly well-known as an excellent starting-off point for Web explorations of Africa.
- Lesson
plan for African art
- The Personal and Useful Objects in Daily Life of Central and Southeastern Africa, for
grades 3-5
- Stanford University
Libraries
- A compilation of several education-related sites, by Karen Fung.
- UNESCO Education Information
Service
- Includes a link to the Conference of Ministers of Education of African Member States and
the World Conference on Higher Education
- UNICEF's Progress of Nations 1996:
Education
- A table comparing the percentage of primary school age girls out of school. While the
information may be of some interest to students and teachers, it does not compare boys'
and girls' attendance records in each country or discuss possible reasons that such
differences exist.
- The Western Cape Schools' Network
- Includes projects such as "A Child's Western Cape", "Rainbow
Revolution", "UWC BioEd Project", "Project First Byte", and links
to more than 130 schools.
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