SOSE - Resources and competitions
Resources and competitions to support the teaching of Studies of Society and Environment include:
Australian Geography Competition
Australian Geography Competition 
is a joint initiative of the Royal Geographical Society of Queensland and the Australian Geography Teachers' Association . The competition is designed to encourage student interest in geography and reward student excellence.
Crime Stoppers Youth Challenge Queensland
The Crime Stoppers Youth Challenge Queensland is a competition for students from Years 6 to 12 in all Queensland schools sponsored by Crime Stoppers Queensland, the Queensland Police Service and the Department of Education, Training and the Arts.
The Youth Challenge enables students to research the impact of a specific type of crime on their community through a curriculum-based competition.
The Crime Stoppers Youth Challenge Queensland is based on the Tasmanian Crime Stoppers Youth Challenge which was a national winner in the 2004 Australian Crime and Violence Prevention Awards.
Contact: Principal Education Officer (SOSE)
Indigenous Education
Education Queensland support materials
Education Queensland's Indigenous Education website features information on departmental initiatives aimed at improving outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students and resources to support the teaching of Indigenous perspectives, including Embedding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Perspectives in Schools .
The State Library of Queensland
The State Library of Queensland provides a range of Indigenous resources including books , articles , images and links to other websites providing Indigenous information services.
The Queensland Studies Authority support materials
The Queensland Studies Authority's website also features support for incorporating Indigenous perspectives across the curriculum. Indigenous perspectives refer to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ways of knowing, viewing and relating to the world. The website features:
- Brochure for parents of Indigenous Prep children
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies: Promotional materials
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies: Teacher handbook
- Educational resources
- Indigenous perspectives: Professional development
- Career Information Service: Deadly pathways
- Indigenous perspectives statement
The Queensland Museum's Dandiiri Maiwar Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures Centre
The Dandiiri Maiwar Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Centre showcases Queensland's Indigenous peoples and has a range of resources to inform curriculum planning. The Centre is made up of three parts:
- The Exhibition
- Open Access Collection
- Resource Area
Resources include:
National History Challenge
The National History Challenge is a competition that encourages students in years 5 to 12 to use research and inquiry-based learning to discover more about Australia and it's past. Students are the historians and they investigate their community, their family's past or major events that have shaped Australia.
The Challenge is managed by the History Teachers Association of Australia. For more information and to register for the competition, complete the online registration form .
Multicultural Australia
The Multicultural Australia website tells the story of the development of multiculturalism in Australia. The website features primary and secondary source material useful to teachers, particularly teachers of SOSE and Modern History.
In 2004 Multicultural Affairs Queensland, Education Queensland and Queensland's Access Asia program formed a partnership to support the inclusion of Queensland content on the website.
Each screen features a range of sources related to the organiser and includes archival images, interviews, book excerpts, web references, articles, cartoons, reports and statistics. To peruse the newly added Queensland content, go to SITE MAP to view:
- Colonial Queensland
- Queensland's Island Trade
- Assimilating into Queensland society
- Queensland's emerging diversity
- Queensland's multicultural turn
- Queensland's Chinese communities
- Combating racism in Queensland
- Queensland's new millennium
- Religion, values and spirituality in Queensland
- Asia and Queensland
Youth Parliament
YMCA Queensland Youth Parliament website includes information about the YMCA Queensland Youth Parliament which runs each year from the middle of March, after Youth Members are selected until the end of September.
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