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meghankelly492

Culture of East Africa | USA Today - 1 views

  • Up until the 15th century, the cultures of Eastern Africa lived in relative isolation, building up kingdoms and empires, spreading agriculture and civilization throughout the region.
  • n the 15th century, the Portuguese began exploring the coast of East Africa, seeking to seize control of the spice trade from the Muslim presence in the Middle East. Islamic resistance to this led to a large-scale Arab colonization of the coast, which lasted until European colonialism began in earnest in the 19th century.
  • There are hundreds of languages spoken throughout East Africa, ranging from those spoken by only a few thousand to those spoken by millions. The most widely-spoken language, by far, is Swahili, with more than 5 million native speakers, and millions more who speak it as a secondary trade language. The island nations of East Africa, such as Madagascar, do not speak Swahili, instead speaking their own native languages, such as Malagasy.
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  • Clothes are brightly colored and consist of simple wraps, covering either only the lower body or both the lower body and upper body. In Islamic regions, covering is more substantial, and daily wear includes a head wrap
  • The legacy of Islamic rule along the coast of East Africa remains strong, and the majority of those on the coast and in North-East Africa are practicing Muslims
  • East African music consists of simpler instrumentation than Central Africa or West Africa, with a heavy reliance on percussion and basic horns, and less in the way of complex bowing. Since the 1980s East Africa has produced a great deal of fusion music, incorporating elements from Western music to create mash-ups of traditional and modern. Many countries in North-East Africa draw on Arabic influence in their music as well, incorporating elements such as religious poetry into the songs.
Martin Burrett

Lessons from Africa | Free Lesson Plans and Games for kids | Africa resources for KS1 KS2 KS3 KS4 | Africa for kids - 39 views

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    This is a wonderful site which has a large set of lesson ideas that will bring Africa into your school. The activities range from KS1-4 and are spread across the curriculum. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/PSHE%2C+RE%2C+Citizenship%2C+Geography+%26+Environmental
taconi12

2008 World Population Data Sheet - Population Reference Bureau - 61 views

  • United States Italy Dem. Rep. Congo Population mid-2008 305 million 60 million 67 million Population 2050 (projected) 438 million 62 million 189 million Lifetime births per woman 2.1 1.3 6.5 Percent of population below age 15 20% 14% 47% Percent of population ages 65+ 13% 20% 3% Life expectancy at birth 78 years 81 years 53 years Annual births 4.3 million 568,120 2.9 million Annual deaths 2.4 million 575,300 0.8 million Annual births minus deaths 1.9 million -7,200 2.1 million Percent of population undernourished <2.5%
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      the stat about mortality in women is amazing.  make sure to use in lesson plan
  • n those countries, 1 in 75 women still die from pregnancy-related causes. In both sub-Saharan Africa and in the 50 countries defined by the United Nations as least developed, that risk is a shocking 1 in 22. In stark contrast, about 1 in 6,000 women in the developed countries die from pregnancy-related causes.
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  • Worldwide, women now average 2.6 children during their lifetimes, 3.2 in developing countries excluding China, and 4.7 in the least developed countries. Lifetime fertility is highest in sub-Saharan Africa at 5.4 children per woman. In the developed countries, women average 1.6 children. The United States, with an average of 2.1 children, is an exception to this low-fertility pattern in the world’s wealthier countries.
  • es fewer than the minimum calories required to lead a healthy active life. That figure rises above 60 percent in several sub-Saharan countries.
  • developed countries, 35 percent of the population consum
david stong

Building Libraries Along Fiber-Optic Lines in Sub-Saharan Africa | Innovation | Smithsonian - 14 views

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    "Would you be willing to develop a mentoring relationship with a Librii user to help them achieve a learning goal?"
Josephine Dorado

"9 Minutes" Mobile Game Evaluation Demonstrates Positive Change for Pregnant Women | Games for Change - 19 views

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    Positive results of a recent evaluation of the mobile phone game, 9 Minutes, that was produced as part of the "Half the Sky Movement". The game was developed for feature phones commonly used in India and East Africa. 9 Minutes plays out the adventure of pregnancy and rewards pregnant women and their spouses for keeping both mother-to-be and the baby inside her healthy and happy.
Michael Sheehan

Learning Never Stops: Mapping History - Hundreds of Animated and interactive maps of historical events and eras - 121 views

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    Excellent collection of animated and interactive maps about the history of the U.S., Europe, Latin America, and Africa.
Sonja Phillips

Two Billion Miles: interactive video story - 76 views

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    Take a journey from Africa through Italy to Europe - if successful, you might be able to stay. If not, you could be deported or worse.
Thieme Hennis

CodeJam | Apps that Matter. - 57 views

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    Good school in South Africa.
Gerald Carey

The True Size Of Africa - 70 views

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    and other countries! Countries such as the US, Spain and France, for example, are overlaid onto the African continent to give an idea of their true size. Antarctica and Australia are included.
Florence Dujardin

Facebook as an academic tool for ICT lecturers - 25 views

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    In this paper, we investigate the use of Facebook as an academic tool by lecturers in Information Systems and Computer Science departments in Southern Africa. Students' methods of engagement are very different than it was many years ago and the way students communicate and interact have changed because of new technologies. We found that very few lecturers are exploring the use of one such new technology, namely Facebook, to enhance their teaching.
Jennifer Armstrong

Atlas of World History - 60 views

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    Africa Asia and Europe to the year 1000 with interactive maps and map animation.
Roland Gesthuizen

Portraits of School Children in Classrooms Taken Around the World | Feature Shoot - 91 views

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    "This ongoing series by English photographer Julian Germain, entitled Classroom Portraits, began in schools in North East England in 2004. Since then, Germain has taken large-scale portraits of classrooms from North and South America, Europe, Africa, Southeast Asia and the Middle East and has amassed an impressive 450+ portraits of schoolchildren in over 20 countries."
C CC

GeoExpert HD for iPad - 32 views

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    Recently added to the UKEdChat Apple EduApps page is GeoExpert HD for iPad. Highlighted by the developer, this app is a great tool for helping pupils identify countries, capitals and their flags for six geographic areas - North America; South America; Europe; Africa; Asia; Oceania.
Michele Brown

StepMap - Create your personal map for free - 10 views

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    StepMap enables you to create maps for free and to search for maps in the map directory. In the map directory you can find maps for Africa, Asia, Australia/Ozeania, Europe, North America and South America. You can add images, videos, audio files and much more to your personal map. Categories in the map directory include Travel Routes, News Maps, School Maps, Fan Maps, Political Maps as well as Historical Maps.
Tim Cooper

Search | African Fossils - 9 views

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    3d printable models with great pictures and histories of fossil - animals, tools, plants from Africa.
meghankelly492

Exploring the Cultures of East Africa - Jenman African Safaris - 0 views

  • As much as these different East African countries have in common, there are also distinct differences as a result of the over a hundred different cultures, dozens of different languages and diverse opinions relating to national identity.
  • Tanzania has two official languages – English and Swahili
  • Over the last ten years, the art of cartoons and comics has really taken off in Tanzania and begun to develop a more outspokenly political edge
meghankelly492

Eastern Africa - New World Encyclopedia - 1 views

  • worldwide fame for their heavy concentrations of what is often termed the "big five": the elephant, water buffalo, lion, leopard, and rhinoceros.
  • African scholars have attempted to classify the peoples of Eastern Africa. The population is fragmented into many subdivisions based upon lineage—patrilineal in some areas, matrilineal in others—language, religion, subsistence and habitat among others. Despite such fragmentation and differences, the various groups tend to share much of their culture in common
Glenn Hervieux

Nat Geo MapMaker Kits - National Geographic Society - 34 views

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    Complete set of 11 map kits that students and teachers can use. Easy to assemble. The kits offer United States political and physical maps, world political and physical maps, maps of Asia, Africa, Europe, North and South America, Australia and Oceania, polar region maps, and maps of New England.
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