This site was made possible by a Grosvenor Grant from the National Geographic Society Education fund.

Site created and maintained by:
Fred Kunze and Jesse Johnson

Director of MAGE
Dr. David Lanegran

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This site was made possible by a Grosvenor Grant from the National Geographic Society Education fund.

Site created and maintained by:
Fred Kunze and Jesse Johnson

Director of MAGE
Dr. David Lanegran

 

Welcome to the Africa Download page

Click on any blue, underlined title on the file list below to download the file to your desktop. Some files require a particular program to be on your computer before you can use them.

Programs and Files: Click once on the blue underlined words to download a geography program or file about Africa (not a lesson).
  1. Download a quiz on Africa. BasicAfricaTFQuiz.html.sit
  2. Download an article about MindTools from MindTools author Jonassen. MindTools.pdf.sit
  3. Download the 2/9/02 notes from Colleen and Cecil Keen's PowerPoint presentation on South Africa.
  4. Download a HyperCard based game on the north of Africa. northern-africa-game.sit
  5. Download a shareware program for collecting information about Africa. Africa Notebook.sit
  6. Download a nice Windows drag and drop program for learning the countries of Africa mpafinst.zip
  7. Africa Map Puzzle (Windows 3.1, 95 or 98 only) You must download it from their site (click on title). It is a free download.
  8. Africa Tutor (Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP) You must download it from their site (click on title). This free software helps students learn the countries of Africa. It has a study mode and two types of quizzes. Fairly fast download on a 56k or faster connection.

Lesson Template

Lesson Template in MS Word (created by Aaron Doering). This is the lesson format used by Project Africa to "package" the lessons. The format is based on "authentic pedagogy". Click on this title to download the format in Microsoft Office Word 2001 format.

Lesson Template in RTF Click on this title for a Rich Text Format which will open using AppleWorks 5 and many other programs.

Africa Lessons from the Project Africa seminar members :

You may preview these lessons on the " Africa Lessons" page.

Please go to the "Lessons" page to preview and read about each lesson. This page is to download the lesson to your computer.

Click on the Africa continent icon in the left panel to return to the top of this page.

 

Africa Regions by Ann DeHoff. DeHoffAfriLesson.sit (format is MS Word).

Introduction to East Africa by Sharon Myran Marcotte. The format is MS Word. There are three downloadable parts:

Swahili Coast by Bob Manning of Stillwater. MS Word 2001 format.

 

Central African Rainforest- The Green Abyss: by Jane Conlin from Nativity of Our Lord School. MS Word 2001 format.

 

Djénné- Eternal City of West Africa by Chris Ripken and Christian Gould of Centennial Middle School.You will also get a PowerPoint presentation of "PIGEARS" (may be viewed on line on the lessons page). MS Word 2001 format.

 

Reaching Across Borders in Southern Africa is a lesson by Dave Hedenstrom who teaches at Franklin MS. MS Word 2001 format.

 

Lessons from a Unit on Africa by Eden Prairie's Anna Hoppe, Tamara Sather and Lindsay Gaida. These include: Five Themes Template; Africa Travel Brochure; Using Pictures to Tell a Story: Trekking Through the Green Abyss. MS Word 2001 format.

 

Africa Unit: Geography and Politics, by Deana Jaeschke from Central Middle School inWhite Bear Lake. This unit has six parts and you will get all of the parts when you download the file. It is in MS Word 2001 format.

 

You Want to Do What With My Forest? and a second lesson,To be a Nation State or Not to be a Nation State? from Kelly Swanson from Johnson MS. MS Word 2001 format.

Download Kelly's Demographic Transition (lesson is in HTML form) by clicking on the title.

 

Ten Lesson Unit on Africa by Jill Torres of Patrick Henry HS. Get all 10 in one download! MS Word 2001 format.

 

Five Africa Lessons for grades 9-12 by Rebecca Biel of Johnson HS in St. Paul, MN.

  • Lessons 1-2 Comparing Colonial and Current Africa.
  • Lessons 3-4 Imperialism.
  • Lesson 5 Apartheid in South Africa. Get all five lessons by clicking on the blue, underlined title above.

 

Libya, a by Kim Campbell, has a lesson and a PowerPoint slide show. The lesson is in AppleWorks 6 format.

 

Five Africa Lessons for grades 8 by Richard Jensen of Battle Creek Middle School in St. Paul, MN.(format is MS Word and you get all five lessons and supporting materials with one click).

  • Africa: Location
  • Africa: Climate and Vegetation
  • Making a Textbook Chapter from a Magazine
  • Problems of Independence
  • MANCALA

 

NGS Africa Map: “Africa Today” This critical thinking lesson was developed for grades 6-12 by several of the "Master Teachers" for the Project Africa Seminar based on Dr. Lanegran's deconstruction of a map demonstration. The teachers are: Mary Crampton (Eden PrairieSchools), Bob Marcotte (MAGE), Maureen Trepp (Field School in Minneapolis), and JoAnn Trygestad (Rosemount Middle School). The format is MS Word.

 

Geography and Culture in Africa (Click on the title to get all five HS lessons with supplemental charts/worksheets/materials). The lessons are by Tom Odendahl of Roosevelt HS, St. Paul, MN, and are an introduction to a larger unit on Africa and early human history. The format is MS Word.