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Sos Children's Villages: Our Africa Poverty

For Students 6th - 8th
Our Africa is a project that allows the children of Africa to film their lives and their country the way they see them. This section offers a sobering reminder of the absolute poverty that plagues Africa and the causes of this way of...
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Sos Children's Villages: Our Africa Geography and Wildlife

For Students 5th - 7th
Our Africa is a project that allows the children of Africa to film their lives and their country the way they see them. This section summarizes the geography and wildlife and includes videos about forestry, the Nile, Lake Naivasha, and...
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Sos Children's Villages: Our Africa Climate

For Students 5th - 8th
Our Africa is a project that allows the children of Africa to film their lives and their country the way they see them. This section describes the varied climate of Africa and includes videos on agriculture, the Kalahari Desert, and...
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Soft Schools

Soft Schools: Flags of Africa Quiz

For Students 3rd - 8th
Test your knowledge over the flags of African countries. Identify each flag, and check your answers at the end of the quiz.
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Peace Corps

Peace Corps: Working With Environmental Issues

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Water is a concern for the health through parasites and diseases in West Africa. This lesson emphasizes the importance of clean water.
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Adventure Learning Foundation

Adventure Learning Foundation: Southern Africa

For Students 3rd - 8th
Explore the geography, culture, history, and people of Southern Africa in this site. It includes journal excerpts, pictures, maps, and classroom activities.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: South Africa History and Timeline Overview

For Students 1st - 9th
Kids learn about the history and timeline of the country of South Africa including early tribes, Dutch settlers, British rule, Boer Wars, apartheid, and Nelson Mandela.
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Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation

Guggenheim Museum: Southern Africa

For Students 3rd - 8th
A simple explanation of the Southern Africa region of Africa, with information on the cultural history and examples of artwork.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Geography for Kids: South Africa

For Students 1st - 9th
The history, capital, flag, climate, terrain, people, economy, and population of South Africa is on this site.
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Digital Dialects

Digital Dialects: Geography Games: Countries of Africa

For Students 3rd - 8th
Study a map showing the countries in Africa, and then try to match their names to their locations on a blank map.
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Lizard Point Quizzes: Eastern Africa: Countries Quiz

For Students 3rd - 8th
Take this eleven question interactive map quiz to practice and test your knowledge of Eastern African geography.
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National Geographic Kids: Africa: South Africa

For Students 3rd - 8th
Welcome to South Africa ! Follow this interactive overview of the country's history, geography, people, government, nature, and more.
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Online Expeditions: African Adventure

For Students 3rd - 8th
Use this site to explore several regions of Africa, without having to leave the classroom.
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National Geographic Kids

National Geographic Kids: Kenya

For Students 3rd - 8th
Even if you've never been to Kenya, chances are you know what it looks like. Kenya's savanna is familiar from movies, TV shows, books, and commercials. It's the landscape many people imagine when they think of Africa.
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Cool Math

Coolmath: Coolmath Games: Map Snap: Africa

For Students 4th - 8th
You are presented with an outline map of Africa and you must place each country in its correct position. It clicks into place if you're in the right spot. You may want to start with the practice mode which has the shape outlines of the...
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National Geographic Kids

National Geographic Kids: Ghana

For Students 3rd - 8th
Click-through facts-and-photo file about Ghana's geography, nature, history, people and culture, and government. Includes a map of the country that pinpoints its African location.
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National Geographic Kids

National Geographic Kids: Morocco

For Students 3rd - 8th
Click-through facts-and-photo file about Morocco's geography, nature, history, people and culture, and government. Includes a map of the country that pinpoints its North African location and a video about a daily festival of sights and...
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National Geographic Kids

National Geographic Kids: Tanzania

For Students 3rd - 8th
Click-through facts-and-photo file about Tanzania's geography, nature, history, people, culture, and government. Includes a map of the country that pinpoints its African location and a video that describes the lives of giraffes that live...
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The History Cat

The History Cat: Geography: Places: Africa's Serengeti

For Students 4th - 8th
Discusses the wildlife of Africa and how many species are being threatened by poaching as well as by those who hunt them for food. Some countries try to protect their wildlife, recognizing that it is a rich natural resource that attracts...
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National Geographic Kids: Nigeria

For Students 3rd - 8th
Welcome to Nigeria! Follow this interactive overview of the country's history, geography, people, government, nature, and more. A map and video are included.
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of African Art: Where Do I Come From?

For Students 3rd - 8th
Find out where each African pot was made. Watch the country light up on the map and read a little bit about how it was created.
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Bbc Newsround: Guinea Is Free of Ebola

For Students 2nd - 8th
Article reports that Guinea is now free from ebola, which broke out in the West African country in 2013.
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University of Iowa

University of Iowa: Arts and Life in Africa: Ghana (The Gold Coast)

For Students 6th - 8th
A record of statistics for modern-day Ghana, up to 1998. The history section near the end provides a brief, but informative look at British control of Ghana.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: World Regions

For Teachers 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is designed to quiz students about their general understanding of regions around the world and includes countries that are in many of these regions. Use as a pre-test or review with...

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