Pan-African Perspective

Education

In the spirit of the Winneba Institute

Examine Africa's role as the birthplace of humanity

Resources on South African Higher Education http://africa.msu.edu/SAHE/
Information on South African higher education institutions and organizations plus resources on higher education transformation, partnerships, and study abroad.

Technology Enhanced Learning Initiative of Southern Africa
http://pgw.org/telisa/

African Studies Links
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/
~cafrica/links.shtml

Scholars Guide to the WWW
http://tigger.uic.edu/~rjensen/index.html

African Internet Connectivity Projects http://www.matrix.msu.edu/connect/

Gateway to African Studies on H-Net lists, with websites and academic discussion lists on African history, South Africa, African research, African politics, African women, African literature and cinema, teaching about Africa, and more. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/gateways/africa/

Columbia University African Studies
Business and Economic Information on Africa
http://www.cc.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/
indiv/area/Africa/bus.html

Helping Your Child In School

Academically these sites have been selected because they provided excellent analysis of the material in user-friendly formats. We thought this would be important for the parent child interaction, which is an essential element of the early childhood learning phase

Visit our Math Page

We recommend the following for math:

A real strength of the All Math site is that it has flash cards Go to the AllMath.com - math site for kids! Home of flashcards, math biographies and Ask The Experts. You have to work around the annoying pop-ups but the things like the interactive flash cards is worth the bother.
The Helping Your Child With Arithmetic and Math website has excellent information and a useful set of links to other sites.
The next one is another strong interactive program, ThinkQuest.
The World of Math Online has excellent explanations. It covers topic from general to the specific, and good links also.

Science

In the general science category we selected the following as examples:

Cool Science for Curious Kids makes science understandable by relating it to everyday activities your child will readily understand from her / his own life experiences.
Basic science for kids is strong in the area of innovative suggestions for experiments and projects.