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African Voices Web
Cast
60 Minutes
Requires
QuickTime
"African Voices celebrates Africa as a historic and living entity
with contemporary and future relevance. It demonstrates how African
cultures have spread worldwide becoming a part of the very fabric of
American life and encourages people to look beyond the existing
stereotypes and assumptions about Africa and Africans."
In
this EFT, students learn about central themes in Africa’s
vast, rich history and contemporary vitality. Special emphasis is
placed on:
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Contemporary Music
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Africa's Historic struggle for self determination
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Diversity + vitality of contemporary life in Somalia
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Valuable goods, ideas and relationships as examples of wealth in
Ghana today.
African Voices
Audio Visual Clips
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Supporting
Lessons |
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Ngorongoro Food Web Lesson Plan
NYS Standards: MST #4
Key Idea: #6
ELA Standard: #1
Students will learn the various components of a food web;
primary consumer, secondary consumer, third order consumers,
scavengers, and decomposers.
Students will study the various animals living in the Ngorongoro
Students will understand the effects of man and climate on the
animals living in the Ngorongoro
Debate About the
Ngorongoro
NYS Standards
ELA Standard #1
ELA Standard #4
Social Studies Standard #3
MST Standard #2
Students will
learn about the conflict between the Maasai and the Tanzanian
government.
Students will learn about the role of the NCAA in preserving the
Ngorongoro crater area.
Threads
of Meaning
Grade Level:
7 - 10
National Art Standard 1:
Understand and apply media.
National Art Standard 5:
Reflect upon and assess characteristics and merits of the work
of others.
National Family and
Consumer Sciences Education Standard 16.3:
Demonstrate apparel and textile design skills.
National Family and
Consumer Sciences Education Standard 16.4:
Demonstrate skills needed to
produce, alter, or repair textiles products and apparel.
As a result of this lesson students will be able to:
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analyze the artistic symbols and meaning of African cloth.
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design cloth based on proverb or story using combination of
traditional African symbol and original symbol designed by
student.
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produce drawstring bag fusing original cloth.
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School & Classroom Activities |
Pen Pals in Africa
Includes Sample
Letter, Rubric, Lesson & Standards
Performance Task Assessment, Character Web, Map, Shillings &
Dollars, Letter from Prompeh College in Kumasi, Ghana and letters
exchanged between grade 6 students and students in Africa.
An African
Festival
Includes a
planning guide, event program, and photos |
