Africa Trail CD

1995 MECC
Available from MECC
ISBN# 0-7929-0904-6

Africa Trail transports students to Africa for a transcontinental bicycle trek. Based on the historic 1992 expedition of world-famous bicyclist Dan Buettner, Africa Trail requires students to choose teammates, buy supplies, and traverse the Sahara Desert, savannas, and tropical rainforests. Along the way, students make decisions based on information they pick up from their teammates and local people.

African American History
Tom Snyder Productions, Inc.
Available from Tom Snyder Productions, Inc.

A data disk on African-American history to accompany "Bilingual Timeliner."

African-American History: Slavery to Civil Rights
1994 Queue, Inc.
Available from Queue, Inc.

A multimedia program using narration and visual materials divided into nine sections: The Colonial Period, Abolitionists, The Civil War, Reconstruction, The Harlem Renaissance, The Depression, The Kerner Commission and Protest Movements. A question mode and index are included.

Eyes on the Prize I: America's Civil Rights Years 1954-1965
1993 PBS Video
Available from PBS Video

This laser disk version of the comprehensive television documentary on the American civil rights movement, "Eyes on the Prize," covers the "Second American Revolution" from 1954 to 1965. Dramatic moments, presented chronologically, come to life through archival footage and present-day interviews. The laser disc is accompanied by a preview video and a video demonstrating how to use the videodisc in a variety of teaching situations. This series is also available in a video version.

History of the Blues
1993 Queue, Inc.
Available from Queue, Inc.

This CD-ROM follows the development of the blues from the music of field hollers and the chants of American slaves to the "big city" blues of the 1920s and the birth of "rhythm and blues" and "rock and roll".

Malcolm X: By Any Means
Walter Myers
1994 Scholastic
Available from Scholastic
ISBN# 0-590-62587-X

This CRDOM Smart Book version of the book Malcolm X: By any means necessary allows students to see and hear key events and people in the life of Malcolm X through access to primary source material keyed to the text. In addition the CD-ROM can be used as a tool to assist students in reading and writing activities through the use of a highlighter, an electronic dictionary, text to speech functions, timelines, and writing and publishing tools.

What's the Story? Black Americans
1995 Sunburst
Available from Sunburst

In this guided reading and writing software program, students meet eight famous African-Americans: Rosa Parks, Marshall Thurgood, Dr. Martin Luther King, Frederick Douglass, George Washington Carver; Paul Robeson, Robert Peary, and Sarah Walker.

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