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HOT LIST African Pen Pals

• PEN PAL & GLOBAL PROJECTS • CRITICAL THINKING • CULTURE • TEACHING AFRICA • VIRTUAL FIELD TRIPS • OTHER RESOURCES • SERVICE—LEARNING • RESEARCH PROJECTS: HOW TO • FIRDOZE BULBULIA

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AFRICAN PEN PALS HOT LIST PEN PAL & GLOBAL PROJECTS ePals

http://www.epals.com • Interactive Index to ePals Around the World http://www.epals.com/search/maps/africa

World Map

ePALS states that it is the worldʼs largest online classroom community because of its easy-to-use tools, innovative projects and, their members. (If youʼre looking to offer these kinds of resources and more to an entire school or district, consider www.epals.com/schoolmail ePALS SchoolMail The Leading Solution for K-12 Student Safe Email!)

Kid’s Space Connections

http://www.ks-connection.org Kidsʼ Space Connection states that it is an international meeting place for children and schoolteacers. Find pen pals from around the world. Check out projects to which one can contribute and clubs to join. Use KS Messaging Center as a safe tool for communication. It was designed so that both teachers and children under 13 years of age can benefit from the Internet, free from worry.

Windows on the World

http://www.wotw.org.uk Windows on the World is a free, easy to use resource for schools and colleges seeking international links. Teachers can search the database for details of thousands of schools worldwide and may register their own school details for others to view.

Letter or Email Exchange Project

People to People International

http://www.ptpi.org/programs/school_class_proj_letter.html The PTPI School and Classroom Program encourages classrooms to build the foundation of their relationship with a project that acquaints students with those of their partner classroom.

Transparent Language

http://www.transparent.com Listen to/Learn Survival Phrases in the language of your choice . Arabic • http://www.learn-arabic-language-software.com/phrases/FSArabic.htm Swahili French

• http://www.transparent.com/languagepages/swahili/FSSwahili.htm • http://www.learn-french-language-software.com/phrases/FSFrench.htm

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CULTURE Culture

UNESCO’s Culture sector

http://portal.unesco.org - then click on “Culture” Links Include: World Heritage, Tangible Heritage, Intangible Heritage, Cultural Diversity, Normative Action, Intercultural Dialogue, Culture and Development, Cultural Industries, Arts and Creativity, Copyright, Museums, Cultural Tourism, and Special Focus. UNESCO is the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. The Culture Concept

http://fga.freac.fsu.edu/academy/culture.htm Marsha Yoder and Maureen Robinson The Culture Concept is a 3 week unit designed for Middle Schoolers. Table of Contents: What is Culture?, Groups and Institutions, Learning about People, Cultural Change. Part of the Florida State University Geographic Education and Technology Programʼs collection of lesson plans.

Culture Matters

What is Culture?

http://www.peacecorps.gov/wws/students/culturematters/index.html An on-line, six-chapter, cross-cultural training workbook for 8th grade to college readers. Washington State University, Pullman, WA

http://www.wsu.edu:8001/vcwsu/commons/topics/culture Explore the Learning Topic, Culture, in any order you like. College reading level with quite a few images and other graphics that add interest.

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TEACHING AFRICA: LESSONS & RESOURCES African Studies Center

University of Pennsylvania K-12 Electronic Guide

http://www.africa.upenn.edu • click K-12 link under General Resources Links include: K-12 Information, Country-Specific, Multimedia Archive, Africa in the Library, Environment in Africa, Travel in Africa, African-American, General Resources, Lesson Plans, and K-12 Workshops. See the African Web Links: Annotated Resource list at

http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Home_Page/WWW_Links.html African Studies Resources

Art & Life in Africa Project

Africa— Related Links

Princeton University Library

http://www.princeton.edu/~pressman/africa.html Links include: General African Sites, Facts on Africa, Electronic Indexes & Journals, News & Listserves, Library & Newspaper Catalogues, Organizations, and Princeton Resources. http://www.uiowa.edu/~africart Links include: Art and Life in Africa Online, Searchable Index of Streaming Video, African Pottery Forming & Firing, The Art of Burkino Faso, People Resources (107 African Cultures Profiled), Countries Resources, Databank of Lesson Plans (K-12), and many more. African Studies Program - University of Wisconsin

http://africa.wisc.edu/links/index.htm Covers a wide variety of topics.

Sub-Saharan Africa

Internet Resource Library

http://tlc.ousd.k12.ca.us/library/africa/index.html Links include: Sites for Kids, Maps & Timelines, Geography & Maps, African Art, Educational Projects, Internet Workshop, History: West, Africa, Ethiopia & Zimbabwe, African Culture, Curriculum Guides, Additional Resources.

The Story of Africa

Teaching Africa: Activities and Resources

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica/index.shtml African History from the Dawn of Time told from an African perspective. http://www.sonoma.edu/projects/nbisp/africa/index.html Link headings include: The Africa Inquiry Conference 2001, Resources Links for African Studies, Lesson Plans for Teaching Africa, Resource Links for Teachers.

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VIRTUAL FIELD TRIPS National Geographic

Adventure and Exploration Index

http://www.nationalgeographic.com Expedition: Ancient Egypt

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/egyptjournal Egypt: Secrets of an Ancient World

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/pyramids Congo Trek

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/congotrek The Odyssey: Africa Stage

Utah LINK

http://www.worldtrek.org/odyssey/africa/timeaf.html The trip was taken in 1999. The interactive site remains but students cannot contact trip members or leaders. Links include: South Africa to Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe Stay, West Africa & Mali Stay, Morocco to Egypt, and Egypt Stay. Utah Education Network Virtual Tours

http://www.uen.org/utahlink/tours/ ]http://www.uen.org/utahlink/tours Religion of Ancient Egypt

http://www.uen.org/utahlink/tours/tourFames.cgi?tour_id=18039 Tunisia Today

http://www.uen.org/utahlink/tours/fieldtrips2.cgi?core_area_id=4

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Internet School Library Media Center’s Multicultural Resources for Children

http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/mulafrican.htm

Africa Resources: Folktales, Biography, Poetry, Nonfiction African Voices

Smithsonian Natural History Web

http://www.mnh.si.edu/africanvoices

Smithsonian: In this web site, explore objects that attest to Africaʼs striking diversity and long history. Listen as Africans talk about their lives and cultures. Discover your connections to Africa. African Voices Archived Web Cast

African Voices Project

African Governments on the Web

Africa— Country Overviews for Teachers

All Africa.com

Apple’s Learning Interchange

http://ali.apple.com/ali_sites/ali/exhibits/1000690/ Two versions of the web cast are available. Choose the one most suited to your Internet connection speed. Schenectady City School District, NY

http://www.projectview.org/afvo.htm See especially the section “Pen Pals in Africa” http://www.projectview.org/afvo.penpals.htm http://africangovernments.tripod.com Each link takes you to the official government site for that countryif the link is active. Several were not active. http://www.africacentre.org • click K-12 under Internet Resources “The Foundation for African Resources is a non-profit program aimed at increasing social awareness and knowledge of Africa by providing information, materials and services to local and national, schools, libraries, media and communities. By providing comprehensive information the Foundation hopes to, motivate individuals and organizations towards positive action and support of sustainable policies, as well as fostering an understating an appreciation of a complex continent.” http://www.allafrica.com All Africa Global Media is a multi-media content service provider, systems technology developer, and the largest electronic distributor of African news and information worldwide. Registered in Mauritius, with offices in Johannesburg, Dakar, Lagos and Washington, D.C., All Africa is one of a family of companies that aggregate, produce, and distribute news from across Africa to tens of millions of end users.

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African Recipes & Cooking Tips

Knowledgehound. com

http://www.knowledgehound.com/topics/africanr.htm Example: From Tanzania, Ugali - stiff, steamed porridge usually made from maize. (a.k.a. South Africa: Mealie-meal, Zimbabwe: Sada, and West Africa: Banku)

• 1 L (1¾) water or water and milk combine, • 60 g (2 oz) butter, • Salt to taste (optional), • 500 mg (1 lb) corn (maize), millet, gari (coarse cassava powder) or sorghum flour.)

If you cannot find the link at the Knowledge Hound site, a direct link to Ugali is http://www.doth.com/kwanzaa/africa/facts1/recipes1.htm#TANZANIA BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/default.stm

—Africa

British Broadcasting Company - World Edition - Africa Page

Channel Africa

http://www.channelafrica.org/english/dateline.html

Content Standards

Programs in English. Listen to archived or live broadcasts from Channel Africa in Johannesburg, South Africa. Ohio Department of Education

English Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, Arts, Foreign Language, Technology, Library http://www.ode.state.oh.us/Academic_Content_Standards Work and Family Life http://www.ode.state.oh.us

CIA - The World Factbook Countries of the World

http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook Home Page of the CIA World Factbook. See the drop down menu to select a country. Also, see other available links. http://www.theodora.com/wfb Data from the CIA World Factbooks from the past 15 years. Also has data from the United Nations Statistical Office, the Library of Congress Country Studies and other sources.

Human Development Reports Statistics

http://hdr.undp.org/statistics Download Adobe Acrobat Files on thirty different themes for specific countries or for regions of the world. See the small search window on the upper right of the web page to make your choices. Some of the themes are: Education, Gender, Democracy, Poverty, Human Rights, Peace & Security and many more.

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The Index on Africa

The Norwegian Council for Africa - in English

http://www.afrika.no/index Major headings include: Countries, News Sources, and Subjects—At Large, Business, Conflict, Culture, Development, Education, Environment, Health, History, Human Rights, Information Technology, Politics, Tourism, Trade Unions and Labor Issues, and United nations.

NewsHour Online: Africa The Long Walk of Nelson Mandella Secrets of the Pharaohs

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/africa/africa.html Archived Africa: Background Reports—from the PBS show The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer Frontline - PBS

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/mandela/ The site chronicles the life of South Africaʼs first democratically elected president, from boyhood to retirement from public life. Other PBS Shows About Africa http://www.pbs.org/wnet/pharaohs/ Headings include: About the [PBS] Series, Timeline of the Pharaohs, Historical Maps, Digging Deeper, Secrets and Science, and Additional Resources

Hopes on the Horizon

National Museum of African Art

http://www.pbs.org/hopes/audio.html Use Real Player to listen to an archived thirty minute radio broadcast: South Africa: The Womenʼs Anti-Pass Campaign 56k and DSL/Cable versions are available. Smithsonian Institution

http://www.nmafa.si.edu http://www.pbs.org/hopes/video.html • click Nigeria link Use Real Player to view an archived segment from the show Hopes on the Horizon. The segment is about Nigeraʼs militant youth members of the United Action for Democracy, a coalition of pro-democracy group that planned a five million man march in the southern city of Lagos in 1998.

Water in Africa

Peace Corps

http://www.peacecorps.gov/wws/water/africa Headings include: About the Project, Resources, Lesson Plans, and a map of the continent with links to many countries in Africa including South Africa, Tanzania, and Kenya. Go to a country and click on “Stories” to read comments on that countryʼs water by Peace Corps volunteers.

What is Africa to Me?

http://www.pbs.org/wonders/fr_wh.htm Read what people have said on the topic “What is Africa to Me?” Respondents include African-Americans, tourists, and citizens of Africa. Part of the PBS web site about their series Wonders of the African World.

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RELIGION Africa: Religious Studies Belief Systems in Africa– WorldViews Islam Primer

African Studies Center - University of Pennsylvania

http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/About_African/ww_relig.html http://worldviews.igc.org/awpguide/relig.html Indigenous, Islamic, Christian

Factmonster.com http://www.factmonster.com/spot/islam.html Headings include: Introduction to Islam, Islamic Beliefs, Muhammad: Prophet of Islam, Glossary of Islam, Islam in America, Islamic Holidays, 2002-2006, Ramadan, Quiz: Islam, Islamic Religion; Philosophy, Literature and the Art of the Islamic World, and Recommended Sites.

The Maasai Religion

Religion in Africa

St. Martins College, Division of Religion and Philosphy United Kingdom

http://philtar.ucsm.ac.uk/encyclopedia/sub/maasai.html Teacher’s Curriculum - Michigan State University

http://ex.matrix.msu.edu/africa/curriculum/lm14/intro.html See the rest of MSUʼs African Curriculum for teachers at: http://ex.matrix.msu.edu/africa/curriculum

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SERVICE LEARNING National Service– Learning Clearinghouse Charity Navigator

http://www.servicelearning.org The national site for Service-Learning information.

http://www.charitynavigator.org • Charity Navigator bills itself as an independent charity evaluator that works to advance a more efficient and responsive philanthropic marketplace by evaluating the financial health of Americaʼs largest charities. • Charities listed below were found in the Charity Navigator search results for the category International. Africare

http://www.africare.org Charity Navigator Rating – 5 stars Americares

http://www.americares.org/main.asp Charity Navigator Rating – 5 stars Books for Africa

http://www.booksforafrica.org Charity Navigator Rating – 5 stars CARE

http://www.careusa.org/campaigns/index.asp Charity Navigator Rating – 3 Stars Children’s Hunger Fund

http://www.childrenshungerfund.org Charity Navigator Rating – 5 stars International Medical Equipment Collaborative

http://www.imecamerica.org/index.cfm Charity Navigator Rating – 5 stars Project Hope

http://www.projecthope.org Charity Navigator Rating – 5 stars UNICEF

http://www.unicef.org/whatwedo/index.html Charity Navigator Rating – 3 stars World Education

http://www.worlded.org Charity Navigator Rating – 5 stars

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CRITICAL THINKING K-12 Critical Thinking Library

Critical Thinking Consortium

Critical Thinking Resources

Center for Critical Thinking

http://www.criticalthinking.org/K12/K12libdir.html The Library provides primary and secondary educators with a range of articles on critical thinking. Headings include: Fundamentals of Critical Thinking, The Role of Questioning, and Micropublications Classroom Material

http://www.criticalthinking.org/K12/k12class/trc.html Tactics that Encourage Active Listening http://www.criticalthinking.org/K12/k12class/tactics.html Longview Community College

http://www.kcmetro.cc.mo.us/longview/ctac/toc.htm Headings include: Indroductory Level Resources, Core Concepts, Establishing the Truth of a Premise, Informal fallacies of Reasoning, Additional Topics, and External Resources

Critical Thinking Skills

NCREL - North Regional Educational Laboratory

Evaluating Web Resoruces

Widdner University—Wolfgram Memorial Library

http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/envrnmnt/drugfree/sa3crit.htm

http://www2.widener.edu/Wolfgram-Memorial-Library/webevaluation/examples.htm The site includes a checklist for evaluating different types of web pages, a PowerPoint presentation of Web Resource Evaluation Techniques, and selected web sites lists to use as a basis to teach skills such as Authority, Accuracy, Objectivity, Currency, Coverage, etc.

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TEACHING STUDENTS HOW TO CONDUCT RESEARCH PROJECTS Helping Students to Avoid Plagiarism and Academic Dishonesty Online Research Guide Teaching Students How to do Online Research Writing Research and I-Search Papers

Texas A&M University

http://library.tamu.edu/vgn/portal/tamulib/content/renderer/footer/ 0,2876,1724_1001628,00.html Sprinfield Township High Shool Virtual Library, Pennsylvania

http://www.springfield.k12.pa.us/rguide Techlearning.com

http://www.techlearning.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=10810514

Web English Teacher

http://www.webenglishteacher.com/research.html

FIRDOZE BULBULIA About Firdoze Bulbulia

http://www.ohiou.edu/aas/happenings/conf/firdoze.html

ADDITIONAL MATERIALS National Resource Center for Africa

PBS

Ohio Universityʼs Africa Studies Program, a U.S. Department of Education funded National Resource Center for Africa, is developing lending library materials to complement the Pen Palsʼ series. These materials will be available in October, 2004. For more information visit the African Studies web sit at: http://www.ohiou.edu/african/main.htm PBS Teach/Source

http://www.pbs.org/teachersource

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