PBS materials available African-American history begins in Africa. Black History Month is an appropriate time to illuminate the dark continent for students. Web site provides six lesson plans on Africa that use television and computers as learning tools for mathematics, social studies and language arts. The activities, created by teachers, parallel the six-hour television documentary, Wonders of the African World, which aired on PBS in October. Each of the six lessons refers to relevant resources in print, on the Internet and in multimedia.
Many lessons have corresponding downloadable activity sheets.
A sampler of black history texts The Black Americans, by Milton Meltzer, Harper Collins Children's Books, New York. Includes lists of resources, books for children and for teachers. Short items suitable for young children range from African creation myths to biographies of Sojourner Truth and Arthur Ashe. Black Pioneers of Science and Invention, by Louis Haber, Harcourt, New York, ages 4-8. The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott and The Story of the Underground Railroad, by Conrad R. Stein, Children's Press, Chicago, for ages 4-8.