I know it's halfway through the month already, but I wanted to share a few
great resources for studying African American history.
Black
History Month at FactMonster
Black
History Month at Education
World
Awesome Stories:
"Enjoy an interactive learning experience as you see thousands of hand-selected
and relevant links to pictures, artifacts, manuscripts, documents and other
primary sources, IN CONTEXT, within each story." This is a huge site
with tons and tons of information! If you haven't seen it, it is well worth
looking at. You have to sign up for a free membership to access everything on
the site. I signed up for the academic
membership without any problems. Here are some of the Awesome Stories links
related to Black History Month:
Amazing
Grace: The Story Behind the Movie
Slave
Voices
Black
History Month (some of these will link to chapters in the above topic
- it is a "focused topic" list, which is a new feature of the site)
Slavery
(another focused topic list)
Civil
Rights (a focused topic list)
American
Civil War (a focused topic list)
For Older Students:
PBS: Africans
in America: This is a very informative PBS website. I was amazed at the
amount of information here! There is also a PBS video series by this name
that I was able to obtain from my local library.
PBS:
African American World: Your guide to African American history and culture
The
Underground Railroad (interactive National Geographic site)
The Interesting
Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African:
If you saw the movie "Amazing Grace," this is the autobiography
of Olaudah Equiano, one of the characters featured in the movie.
For Younger Students:
Educational
Bookmarks for Black History Month
Culture
and Change: Black History in America (Scholastic site)
Famous
African Americans
About Africa:
PBS: Wonders
of the African World
PBS: Africa for Kids
PBS: Kids
Africa
Xpeditions
Printable Map of Africa (You knew I would have to get at least one map
in here! You can customize this one for printing.)
You can tell that I'm really impressed with what PBS has to offer for African
American history. If you are interested, you can find a lot of wonderful information
by doing a Google search. I haven't completely gone through all of these sites,
so please use discretion and do some previewing!
Although this post highlights free resources for Black History Month, I would
be remiss if I didn't mention that Belinda,
one of the bloggers here at HSB, has written a Christ-centered literature-based
curriculum that focuses on African American history. Her products and samples
are available at A
Blessed Heritage. We are currently studying the Age of Exploration, Renaissance
and Reformation using Tapestry of Grace, and I have been adding in and/or substituting
some of Belinda's literature recommendations. I think her curriculum is going
to be a valuable addition to our history studies.
Enjoy!
~Andrea
Wow , thank you for sharing all this !! I will have to come back and really take the time to go through all this. What a blessings.
Praying Blessings and ((hugs)) in Him<><
-Mary
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