Useful External Links

Are you interested in Australia's history? In the beauty of its landscape and its physical features? In the stories of its migrants? In its Aboriginal peoples and their traditional cultures? In the challenges Australians are facing about their identity as a nation? In the efforts Australians are making to achieve Reconciliation?
Visit Lore of the Land, a cutting-edge interactive documentary CD-ROM and website that seeks to reconcile spirit and place in Australia's story.

Report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families.

AIATSIS is an independent Commonwealth Government statutory authority devoted to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander studies. It is Australia's premier institution for information about the cultures and lifestyles of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. 

The Access Asia Program supports the infusion of studies of Asia in all areas of the school curriculum by providing professional development, curriculum materials and other forms of support.

The Asia Society is a national nonprofit, nonpartisan public educational organisation dedicated to increasing American understanding of Asia and broadening the dialogue between Americans and Asians. The Society has evolved in tandem with the transformation of Asian countries into major participants in global politics, economics, and the arts, and it has become the preeminent organisation where America and Asia meet.

The UCLA branch of the USC-UCLA Joint Center for East Asian Studies is the oldest of the six Asian area centers in the International Studies and Overseas Program at UCLA. Since its designation by the U.S. Department of Education as a Title VI National Resource Center in 1975, it has offered a rich and varied program of outreach initiatives designed to promote increased awareness of the diverse cultures, histories, languages and contemporary studies of China, Japan, and Korea.

This Internet site contains a complete list of Discovering Democracy material available. It also contains indigenous case studies, the parliament at work database, additional civics and citizenship resources and units of work from the DD kits.

This Internet site contains the NSW program for Discovering Democracy, including specific syllabus links and professional support material, including discussion papers and case studies.

One World, Many Democracies: Citizens of the World is a curriculum project using existing and emerging information technologies to link schools around the world with a focus on civics and citizenship education. There are five projects designed to support the integration of civics and citizenship into teaching and learning programs.

Montage civics is a portal site that brings together a range of civics and citizenship resources and projects to help educators around the world educate for the future.

This site provides students with unbiased answers to commonly asked questions. Human rights is defined, and the Convention on the Rights of the Child and Declaration on the Rights of the Child are included.

EdNA Online is a service that aims to support and promote the benefits of the Internet for learning, education and training in Australia. It is organised around Australian curricula, its tools are free to Australian educators, and it is funded by the bodies responsible for education provision in Australia - all Australian governments.
As an information service, EdNA Online provides two key functions: a directory about education and training in Australia and a database of Web-based resources useful for teaching and learning

As a communications service, EdNA Online aims to promote collaboration and cooperation throughout the Australian education and training sector and facilitate the growth of networks of common interest and practice. As a service provider to education and training systems and sectors EdNA Online also provides a range of tools to assist in the management and discovery of information resources.

Country information from around the world. A resource for business, tourists, students and teachers.

Relevant stage(s): Stage 1, Stage 2, Stage 3, Professional
The OzProjects site assists you to find suitable online curriculum projects and provides access to a host of resources to support your involvement. OzProjects is part of EdNA Online services.

Relevant stage(s): Stage 1, Stage 2, Stage 3, Professional
Global Internet curriculum projects for education sponsored by The British Council.

Many aspects of the life and times of the Australian scientist, Howard Florey, the developer of penicillin as an antibiotic, can be researched from this site. His early life and education, the times in which he lived, the discovery of penicillin and how Florey developed it as an antibiotic are covered.

The home page includes resources for students and teachers visiting Parliament, civics and citizenship links, Australian leaders and emblems of NSW. This site would be most relevant in the planning and teaching of civics and citizenship studies and the Stage 3 HSIE units, State and Federal Government and Australian Democracy.

Basic factual information about the First Fleet's voyage, its ships and their provisions, is provided on this simply designed site. Stage 2 students studying the HSIC unit British Colonisation of Australia would find this relevant site easy to navigate and useful for the teaching of note taking.

Information about Antarctic stations and explorers is available and wildlife and flora are profiled, with facts and photographs. For students using Antarctica as a case study when working towards attaining the outcome ENS3.6, this is a useful site.

A comprehensive directory of school excursion venues can be found at this regularly updated, easily navigated site.

Safety with fire is a prominent feature of this web site which provides non-English fire safety with brochures translated into seven languages. This site would support Social Systems and Structures of the HSIE syllabus.

Instigated by the Clean Up Australia campaign, this site has the dates for clean up Australia and clean up the world. The information on this site supports teaching towards outcomes in the Environments strand of the HSIE: K-6 syllabus.

A collection of blank outline maps for each of the countries of the world to print out for educational use.