Search Over 150,000 Teacher Reviewed Lesson Plans and 75,000 Worksheets
- Grade Range
- 6th - 12th
- Rating

Students research five hundred years of social, economic, territorial, and political history in South Africa, with a focus on the apartheid system. They present their research in the form of a timeline. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 12th
- Rating

Students research important issues in Africa and how the concerns are being addressed both nationally and internationally. They prepare briefing presentations for the American President to influence concerns of foreign policy. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
- Rating

Students, after using maps to locate Africa on a world map, and individual sub-Saharan nations on a map of Africa, examine charts and graphs to find and compare data about AIDS in Africa, the world, and the United States. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 7th
- Rating

Students plan a one-week, three country trip through Africa and create a travelogue of places they visit. They create an electronic scrapbook of highlights of the trip. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 4th - 6th
- Rating

Students see how events in South Africa have affected other areas of the world both through the use of economic sanctions and truth and reconciliation commissions. They analyze significance of this election in light of South Africa's recent history Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 12th
- Rating

Students work in pairs to research assigned African countries. They compile their research to label a continent map of Africa, present their research to the class and design a game of trivia using their findings. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 8th
- Rating

Students discuss African childhood, explore family traditions, customs, and beliefs, examine African recipes, discuss differences or similarities in food preparation between the U.S. and Africa, and prepare a dish with adult supervision. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 4th - 5th
- Rating

Students examine different cultures while making doll sculptures. Using tinfoil, they make the doll, paint them and give them hair and props related to that specific culture. They also compare and contrast different dolls as they review the cultures. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 7th
- Rating

Students research a culture and art produced by the people of that culture. They create a PowerPoint presentation to explain their findings. Students make a sand painting depicting the art of that era. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 10th
- Rating

Students are presented with a hypothetical scenario with a problem that needs to be solved: You are an analyst for the State Department and look at various countries to determine their threat to world peace. The report is to be given to the president. The scenario calls upon students to be observers and active problem solvers. Full Review »

