Social+Sciences

__Geography, Economics, SOSE, Aboriginal studies,__ __Philosophy, Studies of Religion, Religion, Tehtics Social and Community studies__

**__WEBSITES:__** [|http://splash.abc.net.au/secondary#/subject/geography/video]
 * ABC Splash - Vidoes, games, digibooks, audio and many other resources suitable for junior secondary Geography:**

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 * ====This is a wiki website that provides the opportunity to edit and post important buildings of interest to anyone. It is a great example of how wiki's an be used in an educational sense and provides links to architects that have produced such buildings. ====

http://cffsocialstudies.wikispaces.com/home

 * This is another wiki website that can provide teachers with valuable tools in regards to other websites and information that can be used in planning lessons. It also has links to online quizzes that can be used in the classroom.

**__Aboriginal Studies Webquest.__** Retrieved August 12, 2011, From  []
 * This website is useful for teachers as it has lessons that are already planned out. The site also has many different resources that can be used so that the students can gain extra insight into the subject matter.

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 * ====This website provides many links to published journals that can be accessed by students when undertaking Aboriginal Studies units. These journals are most likely best used for students in grades 10 and above as they require some reading and greater critical thinking skills. ====

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 * ====The website is very useful when it comes to understanding the Aboriginal culture.It provides much information for students and teachers to use when they are to undertake lessons in which Aboriginals are discussed in a historical sense. It will create many discussion points on the Aboriginal way of life and the make up of their social order. ====

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====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">This website is provided by google maps. It is useful in the exploration of natural disasters around the world. It pinpoints the areas around the world that have been affected by an earthquake in the last week and uses colour coding to list the magnitude. The links below the map take students to corresponding news reports about the earthquake. ====

====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">** Natural Hazards :** This website, provided by NASA provides information on any natural hazards that have occured around the world including fires, storms, floods, droughts, earthquakes and more. Students can choose the month and year of interest and the interactive map will pinpoint where and what the hazard was. Satellite images are provided from outerspace**.** [] ====

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Climate Change Stories and Case Studies**:

 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Created by Oxfam, this website provides students links to many educative case studies around the world relation to Climate Change. [] ====

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Global Volcanism Program:** <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;">__<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Teaching Students about Economics** __
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Providing an opportunity to search weekly and monthly volcano eruptions, this very detailed website enables you to search specific eruptions via a mapping site using layers such as plate tectonics and associated volcanic hazards. []
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">United Nations Development Programme, (2011), Human Development Reports, Retrieved 1 August 2011 from []
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">This website is ideal when teaching economic students about human development and the economic effects on humanity. It is an extremely interactive site, offering up-to-date data on almost every country in the world. The site contains: Country Profiles, Public Data Explorer, Map of Human Development Statistics (this is a great lesson if students have access to a computer: deligate a country to each student and instruct them to obtain their country's GDP, Inflation Rate, and Human Development Indicator; then compare this data to Australia), Regional and National Trends, Indices and Data, Media catalogues. ====

<span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">__** Biz/Ed **__ This site in not only useful within the business teaching area but also in economics. It provides numerous articles, journals, and databases full of useful information and resources for teaching the concepts of economics. The site's 'search' bar is extremely useful in locating direct information. This UK-based website also offers lesson activities and instructions for students to teach economics. http://www.bized.co.uk/

<span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">__**Greatest Places:**____**[]**__

> ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">http://au.totaltravel.yahoo.com/travel-ideas/galleries/g/-/9497206/5/the-worlds-most-amazing-natural-structures/ ====
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">This website offers information and movies on some of the greatest places on earth such as the Amazon and others. It has movies from the particular places and has a geographical aspect to the website as well. It could be used in providing information to middle years students especially focusing on geography.
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">This is another page with some really amazing photo's of amazing places

<span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">__**Royal Ontario Museum:**__[]

<span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">__**Aussie Educator:**__**[]**
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">This website is made up of information about ancient Egypt and features online activities that the students can participate in. It is generally used for students in the primary system but still offers some key information for middle years SOSE teachers.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">__**Geography And Us:**__http://geographyandus.wikispaces.com/
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">This is a website that provides resources for social sciences as a teacher. It covers all year levels so this provides much information that can be used in the classroom.


 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">This is a Geographical site which incorporates wikis into Geography, allowing anyone to give their personal insight on Global circumstances around the world. GeographyAndUs would be a very educative site to implement into high schools.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">__**Population and the Environment:**__ <span style="background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; padding-right: 10px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[]


 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Published by the Australian Academy of Science, this website educates the students knowledge of the Population Growth and Environmental Problems nationally and around the globe, aiding in a better understanding for the future sustainability of our world.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">__**The Internet Geography:**__[]


 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">This is a website developed in the UK providing links on a number of Geography topics -'Human Geography', 'Physical Geography' or 'Global Environments'. Internet Geographer allows middle year students to understand the more specific impacts and effects on the human, physical and global matters.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">__**Google Maps:**__[|http://maps.google.com.au]/


 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Google has created a new service called My Maps, allowing users to map locations, draw lines and shapes, add text, photos and Street View, giving a virtual 3D image along any street.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">__**The Reef Channel:**__

<span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[]


 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Richard Fitzpatrick creates a great site for students in understanding the underwater world – from his DVD and other resources for marine and geography students.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">__**My Wonderful World:**__[|http://www.mywonderfulworld.org]


 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">This website is a national campaign giving youth an earlier insight on global knowledge. It also guides teachers and parents on how they should educate the young minds through Geography and its matters.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">__**Seterra** :__[]


 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Seterra is an educational geography program for students to locate certain cities, capitals, countries and flags in the world. It is an essential activity for implementing it into geographical classes - incorporating a diverse comprehension of knowledge and sense of competitiveness between each student’s scores.
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">I have used this program with year 8 and they loved it! It was that popular they even asked to play it when they had free time as a reward!

<span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">__**Enhance TV: White Planet:**__@http://url.edna.edu.au/cX8R


 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Suitable for primary and secondary students, this study guide focuses on the ebb and flow of life in the entire, frigid system of the north and includes the themes of birth, motherhood, companionship and the struggle for survival in a truly hostile environment.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">__**Emergency Management for Schools:**__@http://www.ema.gov.au/schools


 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">This website provides new education materials to help school students better understand and prepare for natural disasters and emergencies. Materials include an interactive media game, actual student experiences and lesson plans.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**NAIDOC**


 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">celebrations are held around Australia in July to celebrate the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. The theme for NAIDOC Week in 2010 is Unsung Heroes - Closing the Gap by Leading Their Way.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Celebrate NAIDOC**


 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">is an online project suggesting some ways you can celebrate NAIDOC in the school environment.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**World Population Day**


 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">on 11 July seeks to focus attention on the urgency and importance of population issues. edna's Geography theme page contains geography related information and resources that can be used in the classroom.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">__**Australian Broadcasting Corporation:**__


 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">(producer) 2010, August 3. The making of modern Australia [Television broadcast]. Video retrived from ABC: http://www.abc.net.au/tv/makingaustralia/ -


 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">This is currently a website that contains video from a popular ABC television program called the making of modern Australia. The videos series examines the different elements that were important from the past and now that have helped to form the country. Apart from the video it also has a special section to assist teachers and students to examine each video and its subjects.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">__**We are multicolored:**__


 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Retrieved August 3, 2010, from http://www.wearemulticolored.com/


 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">This is a website that allows users to create their own flags or modify existing flags from around the world. The user chooses his or her flag from a choice of three countries. In doing this students may learn and have access to different countries, customs and beliefs of different cultures around the world that they may have previously not have heard of. This website could be useful for all grades although it is most suited for younger middle school students.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">__**GEOGstandards:**__

<span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[]


 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">This a website that provides information for geography teachers. It has eleven classroom learning activities centered around separate videos located on the site. These videos provide teachers with information that can be used to develop professional learning strategies in the classroom and also to assist in reflection of learning styles.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**__OzProjects:__**

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 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">This website contains information regarding online projects for teachers and students to use. Major cultural and political events are discussed on the website with links to resources and general discussion pages. This websites greatest strength is the ability to pass on resources and links to its users relating to different types of socio-political matters.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">__**ThinkUKnow Australia:**__[]


 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">This is a you tube channel website page that provides users with the opportunity to learn about internet safety and the inherent social problems with this type of communication.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">__**Australian Water Education Toolkit:**__[]


 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">This online resource contains many links to information regarding water in Australia. The website contains a toolkit or a search engine that allows users to search different parts of the internet for resources that are specific to their region in Australia. The search engine uses such criteria as school year level, state and key concepts.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">__**Queensland Murry Darling committee - Flora and Fauna:**__[]


 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Is a website that contains useful information relating to different aspects of flora and fauna mainly in the state of Queensland. Several fact sheets and PDF files contain article written by various people. The website it self contains other useful links about land management in general.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">__**Virtual Village:**__@http://bit.ly/virtualvillage


 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">This interactive experience of a virtual village in Africa provides a way for learners to meet some children and see some of the challenges they face. The villages represents various communities in Kenya, Uganda and Zambia, in which more than 75 percent of children have lost one or both parents to AIDS.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">** Mission H2O: ** <span style="color: #008a8c; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">@http://bit.ly/missionh2o


 * <span style="color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Mission H2O is a water conservation game that teaches players how to optimise water usage in the home.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**__The Environment Resource Library:__**[]


 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">The Environment Resource Library has a large collection of curriculum resources for environmental education – posters, videos, teacher and student resource kits.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**__Edna's Democracy and Elections Theme Page:__**

<span style="color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[]

<span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**__Indigenous ideas-__** **__Leave Your Mark:__**
 * <span style="color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">provides links to a collection of Citizenship resources suitable for use within the classroom.

<span style="color: #008a8c; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">@http://bit.ly/leaveyourmark
 * <span style="color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Leave Your Mark explores the inspirational stories of five Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth and their journeys to creative positive social change. This interactive digital resource includes five short films, linked activities and teachers notes, fact sheets and student posters.

<span style="color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">__**Enhance TV: Federation:**__

<span style="color: #008a8c; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">@http://bit.ly/enhancefederation
 * <span style="color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Suitable for students from K-6, this study guide is an epic tale about the making of Australia. It tells the stories of the founding fathers and of the people in six separate colonies in the decades leading to Federation.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">__** Anti Poverty Week : **__  <span style="color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[]
 * <span style="color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Beginning October 17, aims to strengthen understanding of the causes and consequences of poverty around the world. edna's Fairtrade theme page provides links to a collection of resources suitable for use within the classroom.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**__ Melbourne Cup Carnival 2010: __**

<span style="color: #008a8c; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">@http://bit.ly/melbournecup
 * <span style="color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">This website provides information and activities for Australian Schools to commemorate the 150th Melbourne Cup which takes place on 2 November.

<span style="color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**__Enhance TV- Art and Soul:__** <span style="color: #008a8c; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">@http://bit.ly/enhanceartsoul


 * <span style="color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Relevant for upper primary and secondary students, this study guide, offers an enriching and enlightening introduction to the history of Indigenous culture and art practice in Australia.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**__ The Middle Years Book Club: __**

<span style="color: #008a8c; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[] <span style="color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Enter the forum at to ask Sandy a question.
 * <span style="color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">allows students 10-14 years to share their love of reading by posting book reviews and participating in discussions and celebrations. From 25 October - 1 November, children's author Sandy Fussell will be answering questions in the Middle Years Book Club online project.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">__**Maps:**__ <span style="color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[]


 * <span style="color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">A great site for maps.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**__ 1000 Poppies: __** <span style="color: #008a8c; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">@http://bit.ly/1000poppies


 * <span style="color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">The 1000 poppies project provides a space where students from around the world can create their own response to honouring the service and sacrifice of veterans and those affected by war. Students can contribute to the project until 25 April 2011.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**__ Enhance TV: Christmas Tradition: __** <span style="color: #008a8c; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">@http://bit.ly/christmastradition  <span style="color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[]

<span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|The Geological Society of Australia]:
 * <span style="color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Suitable for primary students this feature article examines the different ways Christmas is celebrated around the world, and the different symbols associated with the festive season.
 * <span style="color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Edna's [|Christmas theme page] provides links to a collection of festive resources suitable for classroom use


 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">has a number of activities for the classroom. With Earthquakes being so topical at present this site provides some excellent resource material.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">__Australian Geographic:__[]
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">always worth a look as well. I found the Black Saturday Before and After photo shoot quite extraordinary as is the current article on “monster storms”. ====

<span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">__** Edna's Forests theme page **__  <span style="color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[]
 * <span style="color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">includes links to online resources, projects and information about publications that may to help you plan classroom or school activities and events.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**__ The Forests: A global perspective : __** <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[]


 * <span style="color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">online project aims to engage students in a celebration of forests and increase their understanding of the global issue of sustainable use of forests for the 2011 International Year of Forests . It includes activities and resources for students from lower primary to lower secondary.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">__ Green Lane Diary: __ <span style="color: #008a8c; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">@http://bit.ly/greenlanediary
 * <span style="color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">The Green Lane Diary is a curriculum linked education program designed by environmental educators to help 8-13 year old children become aware of the stresses our planet confronts and how sustainable living can make a difference

<span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">__ Planet Earth- Seasonal Forests: __ <span style="color: #008a8c; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">@http://bit.ly/seasonalforests


 * <span style="color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Suitable for middle secondary students, this study guide examines seasonal forests, the challenges they face; the behaviours they exhibit and the adaptations that enable them to survive.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">__ Rainforest Alliance: __ <span style="color: #008a8c; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">@http://bit.ly/rainforestalliance


 * <span style="color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">This website offers curricula and resources to help students understand how rainforests contribute to our collective well-being.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">__ Virtual Forest Challenge: __ <span style="color: #008a8c; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">@http://bit.ly/virtualforest
 * <span style="color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Virtual forest is an environmental game in which players are a virtual character going through a typical day and are faced with having to make choices between decisions that are ecologically helpful and ones that are not.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">__ Global Learning Centre: __ <span style="color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[]
 * <span style="color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">education for justice, peace and sustainability.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">__ African Habitats- Forest, Grassland and Slum: __ <span style="color: #008a8c; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">@http://www.johntyman.com/africa/


 * <span style="color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">This study of three different habitats in East Africa contains Samburu images, photos of the Luyha, and the sound recordings all collected 1982, with updates using photos and emailed information provided by friends. The site contains pictures, video and audio resources, copyright free for use by students and teachers

<span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**__BBC Schools Website:__**[|http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools]British Broadcasting Corporation. (2011). //Schools- Religion//. Retrieved August 8, 2011, from []


 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">This UK based website offers a great section on Religion Studies, and provides information on Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism and Sikhism.
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 21px;">There are video clips, classroom worksheets, question and answers, classroom activities, and relevant information on religious festivals. ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">The BBC website also has fantastic material on Environmental Studies, Cultures and Citizenship. ====

<span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">__National Geographic:__[]


 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 21px;">This website has an array of exciting activities for teachers to use in the classroom. It also provides an exceptional range of information and helpful materials for the teachers to utilize and combine within their teaching lesson. The students can also log on an enjoy the education games section on the website. ====

<span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> __**ABC Website- Apology to the Stolen generation of Australia Part 1, 2 and 3.**__[] Australian Broadcasting Corporation. (2011). //Apology to the stolen generation of Australia: Part 1, 2 and 3//. Retrieved August 8, 2011, from __ [] __


 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">The website contains the video clips of our previous Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's formal apology to the Australian Indigenous community. There are also other topics related to Indigenous Issues that have been in the news. The website contains audio clips, news articles and video clips. Great Resource for Indigenous studies and Politics. ====

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====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 19px;">Australian Government. (2009). //Civics and citizenship education//. Retrieved August 6, 2011, from [] ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">This website is a fantastic resource for Civics and Citizenship studies. There is a section for students, teachers and parents. The website provides the citizenship statements of learning, and units of works for primary right through to upper secondary studies. Students can also access interactive and interesting online resources and investigations. ====

<span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">__**Climate Crisis: An Inconvenient Truth**__ <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**[]**

====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 19px;"> TakePart, LLC. (2009). //Climate crisis: An inconvenient truth.// Retrieved August 8, 2011, from [] ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">The oscar winning documentary, The Inconvenient Truth, presented by Al Gore highlights the significance of global warming on the planet. This website is a companion to the documentory and novel; which presents evidence of global warming, photos and video galleries. There is also a section that gives you tips and advice on how to lower your carbon footprint. For teachers there is also a free comprehensive curriculum document that outlines detailed lessons and class activities that for high school students around global warming and protecting the environment. ====

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|http://homes.jcu.edu.au/~edhm/sose/activities.html]

 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">This Website provides numerous activities that can be used in a SOSE classroom. ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Teachers of Studies of Society and Environment have a wide range of activities that they can use with children as they investigate their society and environment. Many of these activities will be introduced to students in your SOSE workshops. Activities introduced in workshops will be recorded cumulatively on this web page. (Mcdonald, 1998) ====

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 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">This is a Queensland Government website that is exploring SOSE as a subject ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">It outlines the purpose, scope and nature of SOSE as a subject ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">It provides an outline of how to conduct an inquiry using the SOSE curriculum and provides resources that teachers can use. ====

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====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Seven Natural Wonders Organization. (2008). //The seven natural wonders of the world//. Retrieved August 6, 2011, from [] ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">website is a fantastic resource about the seven natural wonders of the world. Users can choose different regions around the world to explore, and then specifically find out information, video clips and additional websites about each natural wonder. ====

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 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">This website is an excellent source for resources and ideas for unit plans. ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">It provides three unit plans called 'Who's an Aussie: Australian Identities Today', 'Two Worlds Together or Two Worlds Apart' and 'Wonders of the World'. ====

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 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Is a document published by the Australian Government: Department of Education, Science and Training. ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Due to the growing relationship between Asia and Australia, there is an emphasis on the importance of economics, strategic and cultural context in Australian classrooms. ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">The purpose of the Asia scope and sequence is to articulate key curriculum concepts and contents across all year levels. ====

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">__**Dedicated to a Better Brisbane**__
====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[] ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Brisbane City Council provides a broad range of educational resources to assist teachers and students. Topics vary from heritage walking trails, travel behaviour to laws and regulations. ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">This website provides teachers with a number of ideas that can be used for excersions and class activities. ====

<span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">__**BOOKS**__ <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">__**The Weather and Climate of Australia and New Zealand:**__
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">This text written by Andrew Sturman and Nigel Tapper (2006) by Oxford University Press, investigates the inner workings of the Global Weather Systems, as well as focusing in on the Australian and New Zealand climate changes. Including El Nino and La Nina and how these impact on weather changes including land warming, droughts; to the different rain patterns. This text would be useful for any weather or climate unit's.

__**Living in the Environment:**__

 * ====This text identifies the important issues of today, such as global warming and the effects on the environment such as climate changes, sustainability, fisheries, crop modifications, humans and our impact on the environment and environmentally friendly solutions to the worlds big problems. Written by Miller and Spoolman (2009) by Cengage Learning, this is the text to get for any units on the environment and how climate change is becoming a relevent problem for today.====

<span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Marsh, C. (2008). //Studies of Society and Environment: Exploring the teaching possibilities// (5). Australia: Pearson Education.


 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">This resource is a fantastic teaching companion for pre-service teachers, and covers a range of topics that are related to Studies of Society and the Environment.
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Each chapter includes sound pedagogical planning principles together with a comprehensive range of practical ideas and examples. Questions and activities are provided that challenge students to think critically about a variety of social and environmental issues. This book can be purchased from the Co-op bookshop at the University of Queensland St Lucia, or on their online website, and a range of online bookshops from google.

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 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**SOSE Alive 1 is the first component of the new Jacaranda Middle Years Project to be released** ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**This book includes** ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">** high-interest Geography, History and Commerce material ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">launching pads for SOSE students ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">opportunities for students to extend thinking and explore independent learning ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Remember, Understand, Communicate, Investigate, Create and Connect activities engage different types of learners ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">technology delivered through a highly interactive CD-ROM and Web site (Wiley, 2011) ====

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 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Hana's Suitcase is a novel that can be used in the english and SOSE currriculum ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">This website provides a range of activities that teachers can use when exploring this novel ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">It also explores creative writing tasks ====

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====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Potter, J. (2002). //Active citizenship in schools: a good-practice guide to developing a whole school policy//. Great Britain: Taylor & Francis Group. ==== ====<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">This book provides the support needed for schools and other groups to develop citizenship and community learning links as an active part of their curriculum. All the recommendations given, are supported by an incomparable range of national case studies and experiences, covering peer learning, community service, environmental work, inter generational projects and initiatives to help develop communities and schools through the arts, sciences and sports. Very interesting read and appropriate for culturally diverse classrooms. Most chapters are available online through Google Books. ====

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 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">This website containes videos from topics such as Outer Space, Sharks, to videos on new technologies and the Oceans. They are engaging, informative and well presented for any SOSE or Geography class. ====

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<span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**__LESSON/ UNIT PLANS__**

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 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">This website provides a sample work plan that will aid teachers in constructing work plans in SOSE. ====

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====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2011). //Education services: Geography activities.// Retrieved August 8, 2011, from [] ==== ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">This website has a great section on Geography activities from years 8- 12 that use the Australian census statistical data. Lesson plans cover sensitive topics including: population growth, water, biodiversity, transport to school, urban transect and the homeless. Student analyse real statistical data, synthesise and make inferences to develop a broader picture of the topic. Videos and movie links are also provided which accompany the classroom activities. ====

<span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">__**OTHER DOCUMENTS**__ <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Case Study:  <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Grant, L. (2006) //Using Wiki’s in Schools: a Case Study//. Retrieved August 12, 2011, From [] This is a case study that has been done that shows the importance of wiki's and their application in the classroom. It shows research that can provide information that shows teachers how they are best used and what information that can be produced by using them. Although it doesn't have a particular link to social studies it can be adapted to any subject area.