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=**Using this Wiki**= Please DO edit postings in the SoSEpedia page. Please Do NOT edit other people's postings in any of the resource pages or the excursion page (unless you are one of the learning buddies involved in designing and posting that excursion).

Wiki help, tips and advice...
Many thanks to Meg Poore for help with the content of the above three pages. = = =General Resources for Teaching //Studies of Society and Environment//=
 * Websites:**


 * __'aussie educator'__**

This site has useful links related to culture, civics and citizenship and values. The links are informative and educational with an array of articles and learning activities/units for primary school students! []

Sladjana Jovanovic

http://www.lessonplanspage.com/**
 * Hot Chalk: The Lessons Plans Page.

Although this is an American website, it has a whole heap of lesson plans that could be adapted or used for inspiration to teach many topics across our ELA's. It's a little bit corny but fairly easy to navigate.

Cheers, Elise Cummins

Focus on inquiry: a practical approach to integrated curriculum planning - Jeni Wilson and Leslet Wing Jan ** Curriculum Corporation, 2003 - 128 pages An invaluable resource that assists teachers to plan, implement and assess inquiry-based integrated curriculum units. The concepts, values and understandings that underpin a successful unit are explored and supported with 12 sample integrated curriculum units.
 * Books:

Penguin Books Ltd (UK), 2010 - 272 pages Meetings are a crucial part of all our lives, but too often they go nowhere and waste valuable time. In Six Thinking Hats, Edward de Bono shows how meetings can be transformed to produce quick, decisive results every time.The Six Hats method is a devastatingly simple technique based on the brains different modes of thinking. The intelligence, experience and information of everyone is harnessed to reach the right conclusions quickly.These principles fundamentally change the way you work and interact. They have been adopted by businesses and governments around the world to end conflict and confusion in favour of harmony and productivity.
 * [[image:http://bks2.books.google.com.au/books?id=gCBfPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5 width="69" height="132" align="left" link="http://books.google.com.au/books?id=gCBfPgAACAAJ&dq=six+thinking+hats&hl=en&ei=EgQoTMS_C4mecbjEtcMC&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=book-thumbnail&resnum=1&ved=0CCgQ6wEwAA"]]Six Thinking Hats** **- Edward De Bono**

Board of Studies Publishing Services: Sydney This document outlines the Key Learning Area (KLA) of Human Society and Its Environment (HSIE).It is the KLA in which students develop knowledge, understandings, skills, and values and attitudes about people and their social and physical environments. K–6 syllabuses are organised in broad stages that describe the sequence of learning experiences through which students will progress.
 * [[image:http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:h3oGbto2g1nZeM:http://k6.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/images/hsie/hsie-syllabus.jpg width="72" height="100" align="left"]]Human Society and its Environemt K-6 Syllabus - Board of Studies NSW (2006)**

This document is a NSW Country Areas program South Eastern Network Initiative 2009 It contains a vast range of tools and templates (rubrics, six hats, PMI, Flow charts etc) that can be used through out schooling. It includes the Quality Teaching Framework and Professional Teaching Standards. It is organised under the following headings; Reflect, organise, Cooperate, Investigate and Think. -I am not 100% sure where you would find a copy as I was given mine by a mentoring teacher, but if you google it I am sure something will appear...
 * High Country Learning - A Quality K-12 Continuum -**

Publishing Services for the Department of Educaion and Training: Canberra
 * Every Chance to Learn: Curriculum Framework for ACT Schools, Preschool to Year Ten - ACT Department of Education and Training (2007)**

Melissa Dixon (3025265)


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