Activities about Liberia
1. MULTIPLE
SUBJECTS You may enjoy a first hand
account when you explore Liberia.
Check out my travel website on Liberia, as well as a whole lot more of Africa.
2. LANGUAGE ARTS
Okay, you should explore my website about Liberian folk tales. The site
includes three stories, also written as plays, as well as coloring
sheets, recipes and lesson ideas. The stories were collected as part of
my Peace Corps experience in Liberia.
3. HEALTH and
NUTRITION Any study on any subject is
better with food. Explore some of my
recipes collected in Liberia as well as more from Food
in Every Country, Our
Big Escape, Travel
Food Atlas, Lacademie,
and Liberian Forum.
On YouTube, you can find video of Liberian
food set to music.
4. HISTORY
Global Connections with WOSU
has this lesson on the Historic Ties between the United States and
Liberia.
5. ART West
African Art: Liberia and Sierra Leone from Art History Teaching
Resources includes history, background, masks, clothing and suggested
reading.
6. HEALTH
Like it or not, Ebola put Liberia in the news. Fortunately, the World
Health Organization declared Liberia "Ebola free". This PBS
lesson about the Ebola Outbreak helps to explain the crisis.
7. HEALTH
The New York Times created two
lesson plans about Learning from Disaster: Exploring the Ebola
Epidemic. The first lesson explores the outbreak in West Africa and the
second is about prevention in the United States.
8. ART
African Mask Design with Phillip
Martin, the Incredible
Art Department, and Arty
Factory.com