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Africa for Kids

An interactive website that uses images, audio, and fun activities where kids can listen to songs, make masks, and more to learn about African culture. (Learn more)

Format: website/lesson plan

Provided by: PBS Kids

Art and Life in Africa Project

Provides information and images related to art and life throughout Africa. The site includes maps of Africa navigating even the most novice user to information regarding specific countries and peoples, complete with demographics and settlement histories. (Learn more)

Format: website/general

Provided by: The School of Art and Art History at the University of Iowa

Exploring Africa - Africa in the Classroom

Information about African countries, lesson plans and thematic units covering geography, culture, politics, and history. (Learn more)

Format: website/lesson plan

Provided by: Michigan State University and MSU Global Access

Wonders of the African World

A site about the Africa that existed long before any Europeans set foot there. The site utilizes audio and video recordings, as well as text and photographs. You can download hands-on craft activities to do at home or at school. There is a section for the... (Learn more)

Format: website/lesson plan

Provided by: PBS

Africa Focus: Sights and Sounds of a Continent

A searchable collection of African sounds including greetings and songs as well as images of cities, buildings, artisans, and other cultural and natural subjects. (Learn more)

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Provided by: University of Wisconsin - Madison Libraries

Africa Access Review

Annotations, critiques, and teaching ideas about children's literature from Africa. (Learn more)

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Provided by: Africa Access

African Voices

An online exhibit of historical and modern materials from Africa, as well as selections from contemporary interviews, literature, proverbs, prayers, folk tales, songs, and oral epics that reflect the diversity, dynamism, and global influence of Africa's peoples... (Learn more)

Format: website/general

Provided by: Smithsonian Institution

Education Place Outline Maps

Provides outline maps of the world including Africa, Asia & the Pacific, Europe, South America, North America, the United States, and historical maps for free printing and downloading. (Learn more)

Format: website/general

Provided by: Houghton Mifflin Education Place

Adventure Learning Foundation

Photographs and travel journals from Southern Africa, Peru, Mexico, Guatemala, Baja California, Alaska and Yukon. Interested teachers may register their class to track the travelers on their next trip. (Learn more)

Format: website/lesson plan

Provided by: QuestConnect.org

National Museum of African Art

"The Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art fosters the discovery and appreciation of the visual arts of Africa, the cradle of humanity." This site contains African Art of many mediums: sculpture, painting, masks, multimedia and more. An added component... (Learn more)

Format: website/general

Provided by: National Museum of African Art at the Smithsonian Institution

Odyssey Online

Explore the ancient Near East, Egypt, Greece, Rome, and 19th - 20th century sub-Saharan Africa through museum objects in this comprehensive and informative site from the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia and the Memorial Art... (Learn more)

Format: website/lesson plan

Provided by: Michael C. Carlos Museum of Emory University

Afro-Americ@: Kids Zone

The Afro-Am News Kids Zone provides games, brain teasers, myths and fables and more for kids to learn about Africa. (Learn more)

Format: website/activity

Provided by: African America News

Peace Corps World Wise Schools

Visit the Global Cafe and learn what life is like for teens in other countries. Learn about the culture, geography, government, and economy of other countries and lots more. Also find out what life is like as a Peace Corps volunteer. Teachers, you will find... (Learn more)

Format: website/lesson plan

Provided by: Peace Corps

The Elephants of Cameroon

Explore elephant migratory and land-use behaviors and sustainable use policies for managing Cameroon's remaining elephant habitat areas by participating in this online project. (Learn more)

Format: website/lesson plan

Provided by: Field Trip Earth

One World Journeys: Where People and the Planet Connect

This unique website, sponsored by Fusionspark Media, enables visitors to experience exquisite photo-documentary expeditions around the world. Travel to the remote mountain forests of the former Soviet Georgia, track jaguars in Mexico, dive on pristine coral... (Learn more)

Format: website/lesson plan

Provided by: One World Journeys

African Wildlife Foundation

Detailed information about Africa's wildlife, geographical regions, and the African Wildlife Foundation's conservation projects (Learn more)

Format: website/general

Provided by: AWF

Congo Trek: A Journey Through the Heart of Central Africa

Take an online adventure into the wild, wild Congo in Africa with interactive maps, virtual journeys, and dispatches from a real life biologist trekking through the thick forest. (Learn more)

Format: website/activity

Provided by: National Geographic Society

Zoom School

An on-line school room with facts and images about geographic, scientific, and language-related themes. Pages of information and activities including printouts and quizzes for each topic. (Learn more)

Format: website/lesson plan

Provided by: Enchanted Learning

Teaching World Cultures & Global Issues

This online course provides an opportunity to learn about world cultures complemented by related area studies experts on Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, as well as Slavic and Eastern European countries. (Learn more)

Format: website/general

Provided by: The Ohio State University

Global Education

Explores the issues that are becoming more and more important in a globalized world. (Learn more)

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