Resources

Resources for teaching civics and citizenship education.

Student Parliament
Centenary State High School has come up with an innovative form of Student Parliament. The School's Vice-President, Nathan Schumacher, has created a PowerPoint presentation new window 1.4M and an overview new window 204k explaining how it works.
Working with Local Government
Indigenous Resources
- Books
- Websites
- Unit Plans
- Case Studies
- Videos/Films
- Webquests
Learning Object - Values - Refugees
This Learning Object gives students of the Middle Years an opportunity to explore the values associated with the Refugee issue in Australia.
Webquest
A Webquest for SOSE Level 4 students to design the 'Perfect Australian Citizen'. This has been designed by Holy Name School, Toowoomba, under the guidance of Kate O'Neill, Education Officer Curriculum, Toowoomba Catholic Education.
Discovering Democracy activities using Bloom's Taxonomy and Multiple Intelligences new window [an error occurred while processing this directive]
These activities were created by Kathryn Eccels and Lee Peno from Swayneville State School, Lyndley Kynaston, Maree Sturdy from Koumala State School and Kym Gardner from Carmila State School.
Worksheets for Parliament @ Work CD
- Upper Primary/Lower Secondary new window 29k
Worksheets for Readers
- Upper Primary new window [an error occurred while processing this directive]
- Four Resources Framework - Middle Primary new window [an error occurred while processing this directive]
- Four Resorces Framework - Upper Primary new window [an error occurred while processing this directive]
Worksheets for Stories of Democracy CDRom:
- Middle Primary new window [an error occurred while processing this directive]
- Upper Primary new window [an error occurred while processing this directive]
- Lower Secondary new window 10k
- Middle Secondary new window 9k
Linking Discovering Democracy and SOSE in Qld schools:
- Linking Discovering Democracy and Studies of Society and Environment in Queensland Schools: Years 4-7 new window [an error occurred while processing this directive]
  A booklet linking the Discovering Democracy activities from the middle and upper primary units plus other social science resources to the outcomes from the new SOSE syllabus. Useful for curriculum planning, complete with suggested professional development activities.
- Linking Discovering Democracy and Studies of Society and Environment in Queensland Schools: Years 8-10 new window [an error occurred while processing this directive]
  A booklet linking the Discovering Democracy activities from the lower and middle secondary units plus other social science resources to the outcomes from the new SOSE syllabus. Useful for curriculum planning, complete with suggested professional development activities.
Unit Workbooks
http://www.qcec.qld.catholic.edu.au/CurriculumWebsite/Curriculum/ddsplash.html
This resource helps teachers link the materials in the Middle and Upper Primary Discovering Democracy Kit, The Australian Readers and the Assessment Resources with the Years 1 -10 Studies of Society and Environment Syllabus.
Resource database
http://www.curriculum.edu.au/democracy/database.htm
Annotated reviews of current website, electronic and print resources in civics and citizenship education.
Parliament @ work database
http://www.parliament.curriculum.edu.au/
Complete list of information on current State, Territory and Federal parliaments, electorates and parliamentarians. The database contains a powerful search engine and results can be printed.
Queensland resources: These resources are a collection of activities, books, websites, workshops etc provided by Government and Community groups in Queensland that support civics and citizenship education. They have been listed according to the Discovering Democracy themes that they relate to.

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