Riverside HSIE

The History, Language and Culture of Pharaonic Egypt

UNICEF lessons for secondary students on: UNICEF: An Introduction Child Rights The Millennium Development Goals Children, Youth and Climate Change Child Labour Water and Sanitation

These materials provide an overview of the causes and consequences of climate change, and help teachers to explore its impact on everyone, especially people in the developing world. The activities also help pupils to understand their own contribution to climate change, and that of their school. Includes ideas for active citizenship projects designed to reduce your school and personal use of fossil fuels.

An interdisciplinary approach to incorporating climate change in your classroom The WWF Climate Change Team has developed a comprehensive educational curriculum that will elevate students' knowledge of the issue and spur dialogue about what each of us can do to make a difference. The high school-level curriculum is divided into fifteen lessons which include handouts, a glossary of terms and additional resources for ongoing discussions and research. Please feel free to use the lessons you believe your students will most benefit from.

Ruth one for you

good tool for teachers to educate students re web sites

Jeff and Ruth - probably aimed at mixed abiltiy classes but check out episode 88 A Day in the life - aprts may be very suitable for non atar class - plenty of stuff about trajan also.P

a good interactive for year 7 or 8 biomes or year 9 australian enviroment

A portal to information put together by the Federal Attorney-General's department about Families - includes information on Family Relationship Services, Children, Marriage, Family Violence and De Facto Relationships

These pages contain a variety of resources for teachers and students including teaching resources, factsheets and interactive quizzes.

Very interesting-great clip for Yr8 Geo. Part of National Geographic's 7 Billion series. 

for Ruth - found by Maddie C

great for timelines with laptops

aimed at year 9 and 10 students

simon and Mark/Lisa if you scroll down there is very useful up to date material for our study next term on women