Outreach to Schools, Colleges, Communities, Business, and Government
Exploring Africa
This project is an on-line module in African Studies designed for middle and high school social studies courses. The module covers traditional disciplinary fields as well as lessons on specific regions of Africa. The project also offers an eight-day summer residential program for high school students interested in learning about Africa.
Partnership Schools Program – A MEPI Program: Linking Secondary Schools in Algeria and the United States
This is a pilot program linking 11th and 12th grade students in Algeria with 11th and 12th grade students in the United States. The goal of the program is to increase understanding of the students in both countries by using computer technology and the Web to share stories about their schools, lives, and communities. Students will create community profiles, take pictures, and create videos that tell their stories and then exchange them with their partner school in the other country. The project will enable students in both countries to better understand culture, diversity, and the communities in which they live. It will also meet both country’s’ need to learn about our global society and the program will serve as a model for the use of online technology to meet education and curriculum goals.
South Africa: Overcoming Apartheid, Building Democracy
This project is creating educational materials and designing curricula about the end of apartheid and beginnings of democracy in South Africa. It will be available on the Internet.
