Links and Resources
List of books & websites for teachers & friends
Note: email addresses can be found in the downloadable .doc version.
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Main Site – Worldwise Schools
This Web site tells how to find a Peace Corps Volunteer to correspond with your classroom and gives examples of activities that help K-12 students understand the concepts of poverty and development, and help them identify with students in far-off countries. Address: Paul D. Coverdell, World Wise Schools Program, Peace Corps, 1111 20th Street, NW Washington, DC 20526 Toll-free tel from within USA: 800-424-8580
Africa for kids – United Nations Cyber School Bus
This kid-friendly United Nations site allows students to search for statistical information for member states of the U.N. and it has activities to allow students to understand their peers all around the world.
African Studies Program
205 Ingraham Hall, UW-Madison, 1155 Observatory Drive, Madison, WI 53706 Phone: (608) 262-2380 The African Studies Program (UW-Madison) offers a range of outreach services, including Curriculum Specialists for Schools, an Instructional Materials Center, Conferences / Workshops for Educators, Audiovisual Materials, a Speakers Bureau, and other Electronic Information. See in particular the extended section on K-12 educational resources, including the wonderful Internet guide “Set Your Sites on Africa.”
African Studies Center | Outreach – Boston University
Director: Barbara B. Brown, PhD, 270 Bay State Road Boston, MA 02215. (617) 353-7303 (617) 353-3673 fax: (617) 353-4975 Barbara Brown is an excellent outreach professional and the well-known center has many resources, workshops, and summer travel opportunities for K-12 teachers.
"How Big is Africa?" Curriculum Guide: Outreach Program
You can order “How Big is Africa? Curriculum Guide and accompanying poster, developed by Deborah Smith Johnston with Barbara Brown for the African Studies Center at Boston University, USA.
International Education
www.internationaled.org
This site, maintained by The Asia Society in New York helps K-12 teachers bring international activities to classrooms. It has a wonderful resource list. It’s a good place to go to find the applications to the Goldman Sachs Prize for elementary, secondary, media, and outreach education outlets that exemplify best practices.
INFORMATION ABOUT LESOTHO ON THE INTERNET
Africa Focus
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries maintain this online collection. It contains more than 3,000 slides, 500 photographs, and 50 hours of sound from 45 different countries in a searchable database.
Finding Past Peace Corps Volunteers from Lesotho
This is the site of the National Peace Corps Association, made up of returned Volunteers. On this site you can find links to all the Web pages of the “friends of” groups for most countries of service, made up of former Volunteers who served in those countries. There are also regional groups who frequently get together for social events and local Volunteer activities.
Friends of Lesotho
This site was created by people who once served in the Peace Corps in Lesotho. Besides keeping past Volunteers in contact with one another, the group sponsors activities that help to fund current Peace Corps projects in Lesotho.
Traveling in Lesotho
Visit this site for general travel advice about almost any country in the world, and learn about interesting places to visit in Lesotho.
US State Department Country Background Notes
This site provides information by country on geography, people, economy, history, and government, as well as travel and business information. Find Lesotho and learn more about its social and political history.
BOOKS
Africa 100 Best Books of the 20th Century
A list of excellent books by African authors was compiled in 2002 by a panel of judges in Accra, Ghana. It is not annotated, but Internet links are provided. Zimbabwe International Book Fair Association, PO Box CY 1179, Causeway, Harare, Zimbabwe. Fax: 263 4 702129
CHILDREN’S BOOKS
Adventures of a Breath by Hayam Abbas Al-Homi (Egypt). Atfalna.
Mamy Wata and the Monster by Veronique Tadjo (Ivory Coast). Novelles Editions Ivoniennes. Also available in French.
Sosu’s Call by Meshack Asare (Ghane). Sub-Saharan Publishes
Stories from a Shona Childhood by Charles Mungoshi (Zimbabwe). Baobab Books