New Haven Public Schools is partnering with AMISTAD America, Inc. and the Community Foundation of Greater New Haven to provide teachers and students with educational resources that increase students' understanding of the transatlantic slave trade, abolition, freedom, and the Amistad Incident of 1839. All interested classrooms will be given a chance to participate in the learning experience in the following ways:

1.  Web-Ed Resources

Students and teachers in grades 5-12 will have access to a wide-range of education materials including: primary documents, images, video documents, websites, and lesson plans. Classrooms will be given personal user accounts to access the materials from the website, www.amistadamerica.org.

2.  Voyage Tracking

As Amistad is midway through the Atlantic Freedom Tour, a voyage commemorating the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade, classrooms will be challenged with the opportunity to track the voyage using their own navigational charts. Each teacher participant will be given a stylized chart to display in his/her classroom.  After checking the website to obtain Amistad’s latest position (latitude and longitude), the students will be required to locate and mark the position on the chart.

3.  Peer to Peer Communication – New Haven/Freetown Alliance

Participating New Haven classrooms will be paired with classrooms in Freetown, Sierra Leone, the homeland of the Amistad Africans. Students and teachers on both sides of the Atlantic will then work jointly to develop and sustain a transatlantic dialogue about the history, heritage, and legacy of the transatlantic slave trade. Program participants will explore and examine the meaning of abolition and freedom using an interdisciplinary approach that draws on materials from museum exhibitions and digital resources. Communication will be coordinated with students and teachers through regular e-mails, blogs, video simulcasts (when available) and video feeds.

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For more information contact Kai Perry