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:
For Older Students:
- Amazing Grace: The Story Behind the Movie
- Slave Voices
- Black History Month (A-I) and Black History Month (J-Z) (some of these will link to chapters in the above topic - they are "focused topic" lists)
- Slavery and the Slave Trade (A-F) and Slavery and the Slave Trade (G-Z) (focused topic lists)
- Civil Rights (a focused topic list)
- American Civil War (A-I) and American Civil War (J-Z) (focused topic lists)
For Younger 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 people featured in the movie.
About Africa:
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!
- 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.)
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!
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Posted by Canadagirl
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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Feb. 15, 2008 - Untitled Comment
Posted by Canadagirl
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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