K-12 On-line Resources for Teaching

A bunch of web sites can help to keep you and your students current on news about the world's newest country, the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire).

Teachers in grades K-8 can use folktales to bring Africa alive in their classrooms. The site, developed by teacher Phillip Martin while serving as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Liberia, West Africa, includes lesson plans, the folktales, plays, African r ecipes, links to other African resources, and ideas for students to create and produce their own plays.

An annotated list of Internet sites with K-12 educational standards and curriculum frameworks documents

News Groups, Mailing Lists:

• Miscellaneous Educational Issues
  Do you have a question about classroom management? Discipline? Cooperative learning? Need a job?
• Moderated History Newsgroup
  All types of topics dealing with historical themes are discussed by people from around the Internet.
• Talk About History
  Talk About History is an interactive forum sponsored by HistoryNet devoted to discussion of history and history-related topics. Titles of the discussion areas to which you can post messages include: Talking History, Book Talk, Travel Talk, The Civil War, and Military History.
• H-Net's Electronic Discussion Lists
  The site provides links to a wide variety of internet mailinglists of interest to social studies teachers and students. The lists enable users to share information and ideas and are moderated and maintained by H-Net's editors.

For Kids:

• Deep in the Tombs of Egypt
  Check Message #1:Mumification; Message #2: Rosetta Stone's
• Ancient Egypt
  Grade Five and Six students from The International School of Amsterdam have worked on several investigative projects in 1996-97 and 1997-98. In Spring 1997 grade six students spent a month studying Ancient Egypt. They worked in pairs or in threes stud ying different aspects: the geography, the history, religion, the social structure and daily life and technology.