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- Traveling through Africa
- Students will plan a one-week, three country trip through Africa and create a travelogue of places they will visit. The students will create an electronic scrapbook of highlights of the trip (including cultural highlights, historical points of interest, geographic features, etc.)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Social Studies)
- By Ren Bryan.
- Mapping HIV infection in Africa
- Using statistical information and maps, students will note the correlation between socio-economic factors and the impact of HIV/AIDS in the countries of Africa.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Science)
- By Greg Mitchell.
- Physical map of Africa (2007)
- Physical map of Africa.
- Format: image/map
- Maize in Mozambique
- In Mozambique, a woman harvests maize. Maize (or corn) is native to the Americas, but was introduced in Africa in the late fifteen or early sixteenth century, following Spanish exploration of the "New World." The environment of southern Africa proved favorable...
- Format: image/photograph
- Africa
- Africa is a diverse continent not only geographically but also culturally. These rich resources bring African art, history, traditions, folklore and much more into the classroom.
- Format: bibliography/help
- Major African regions contributing to the transatlantic slave trade in the 17th & 18th centuries
- Format: image/map
- Islam in Africa
- Format: image/map
- Africa: Political map (2007)
- Format: image/map
- Wife inheritance and the AIDS epidemic in Africa
- When an African man dies, it is the responsibility of his brother to inherit his widow. This has become a key factor in the spread of the AIDS virus. This plan looks at this tradition and the AIDS epidemic in African countries and students will discuss possible solutions in a Paideia seminar.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Science)
- By Greg Mitchell.
- The Italian Empire, 1939
- Map shows Italian possessions in Europe and Africa on the eve of World War II: Sicily, Sardinia, Albania, the Dolodecanese Islands, Libya, and Italian East Africa (Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Italian Somaliland).
- Format: image/map
- Map of Africa showing natural vegetation
- Format: image/map
- Mother and child figure from West Africa
- Seated mother and child, from the Bamana people of Mali. The figure conveys the importance of motherhood. In this figure, the hat with amulets and the knife strapped to her left arm suggest a strong protector.
- Format: image/photograph
- Guinea corn
- "Guinea corn" is a name for durra, a grain traditionally grown in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and southern Europe. It was typically ground into meal and made into bread. It is also known as Indian millet, African millet, or pearl millet. Guinea,...
- Format: image/photograph
- The slave route
- Maps showing global routes for shipping of African slaves, including the "triangle trade" between Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
- Format: document/map
- Rice field
- Photograph of a rice paddy in Burkina Faso, Africa.
- Format: image/photograph
- Africa: Interpreting physical maps
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade seven, page 4.1
- In this lesson for grade seven, students look at a physical map of Africa and use it to speculate how the geography of a given region might affect human culture in that area.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Mathematics)
- By Mary B. Taylor.Adapted by Kenyatta Bennett and Sonya Rexrode.
- Timbuktu: A Center for Trade
- Map showing Timbuktu and trade routes passing through it to Cairo, Morocco, and West Africa.
- Format: image/map
- Foods of African Countries
- Students study the foods of African countries. In doing so, they learn the geographical locations of specific countries on the continent of Africa, the vocabulary of African food products, and the similarities/differences of food grown throughout the various physical terrains and climates of the continent.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Information Skills)
- By Barbara Gibson.
- "A sickening state of things"
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 9.9
- Letter from Rachel Lazarus of Wilmington, North Carolina, to Eliza Mordecai of Mobile, Alabama. The writer describes the supposed plot of a slave insurrection in southeastern North Carolina and concludes that whites must live in fear until slavery is ended. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: letter
- Current events in Africa
- In this lesson for grade seven, students find two news stories about a current event in Africa: one from an American media source and one from an African media source. Students compare the two to gain an understanding of cultural bias and perspective.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Social Studies)
- By Shane Freeman.
