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Useful Links
Useful Links
Microsoft Office online – Essential resources for teachers – http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/school/FX102781621033.aspx
TAC - the cost of road trauma – http://www.tacsafety.com.au/upload/TAC-civics-teacher-notes.pdf
We the Jury – http://www.victorialaw.org.au/pdfebook/WE%20THE%20JURY%20VELS%20A3%20DOUBLE-SIDED.PDF
The Cocoa Trade – http://www.fta.org.au/files/Cocoa%20Trade.pdf
Make your business a winner – http://smallbusiness.theage.com.au/starting/management/make-your-business-a-winner-619475750.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap2
Master of the Mall - A resource for teaching employment, consumer and financial literacy - http://www.moneystuff.net.au/nsw/MasteroftheMall/tabid/529/Default.aspx
http://www.skills.vic.gov.au/ - Skills Victoria with Training Support at -
http://trainingsupport.otte.vic.gov.au/default.cfm
http://www.tafevc.com.au/ - TAFE Virtual Campus
http://www.abs.gov.au/websitedbs/cashome.nsf/home/Activities%20-%20vic#sose – Australian Census at school – Two Activities – one on leisure time and the other on electronic trading
http://www.curriculumsupport.education.nsw.gov.au/secondary/hsie/commerce/resources/websites.htm - Commerce Resources from NSW Education Department
http://www.financialliteracy.edu.au/resources/useful_links.html - Financial Literacy Resources
http://www.regionalchannels.vic.gov.au/ - click on Education Portal
http://www.abs.gov.au/websitedbs/cashome.nsf/Home/Entry%20Page.es – ABS resources and lessons for Years 7 to 19 Commerce as well as VCE Economics
http://www.8hourday.org.au/pdf/W8HD_VELS%20_Unit.pdf – Winning the Eight Hour Day
http://www.fedsquare.com.au/index.cfm?pageID=258 – Civics and Citizenship teacher manual with activities
Common Job Interview Questions - http://content.mycareer.com.au/advice-research/interview/interview-common-questions.aspx
Environment Protection Victoria – DUMP Awards for bad packaging - http://www.envict.org.au/ and follow the links - OR - Download the 2009 DUMP & KEEP Report here.
The Ethical Consumer Guide gives you the low-down on the environmental and social record of companies behind common brand names - http://www.ethical.org.au/
Shameless Product Placement – YouTube Video – 9min 39sec – http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=EBf5aHY2rPg
Top 10 most shameless uses of Product Placement in movies - http://www.movie-moron.com/?p=544
Wikipedia Product Placement - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_placement
How stuff works Product Placement - http://money.howstuffworks.com/product-placement.htm
Understanding Money
http://www.understandingmoney.gov.au
UN on-line
http://www.unaavictoria.org.au/pages/home.php
Public Record Office Victoria – VELS Civics and Citizenship
http://www.prov.vic.gov.au/education/
Economics domain – learning and teaching support
http://www.education.vic.gov.au/studentlearning/teachingresources/economics/support.htm
Civics and Citizenship domain – learning and teaching support
http://www.education.vic.gov.au/studentlearning/teachingresources/civicscitizenship/support.htm
Approaches to VELS Thinking
Teachers, through high quality strategic questioning, can help shape the quality of student’s responses. Effective questioning in the classroom will assist students in refocusing, clarifying, verifying, redirecting and refining the focus of their thinking.
http://vels.vcaa.vic.edu.au/support/domainsupport/thinking/approaches.html
Approaches to VELS ICT
http://vels.vcaa.vic.edu.au/support/domainsupport/ict/index.html
Rubrics for assessment
Rubistar is a great site that creates Rubrics for you.
http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php
Department of Education Resources
The Department of Education’s new website replaces SofWeb.
http://www.education.vic.gov.au
Crosswords
If you are interested in a website with a range of crosswords, code words and word finds, this website will provide you with some great resources. The puzzles are designed for people of all ages.
www.crosswordsforfun.com.au
Ethical Investor - a play for students
Click on this link below to find details of a play for students at levels 7 -10. This is great resource to ‘spice-up’ your classes!
http://www.ethicalinvestor.com.au/pdfs/FinLit_Media%20Release.pdf
Consumer.gov.au – what are your consumer rights?
http://www.consumer.gov.au/html/for_consumers.htm
Understanding Money
http://www.understandingmoney.gov.au/
Commonwealth Bank Financial Literacy Programs
http://www.commbank.com.au/foundation/ - then click Foundation Programs on the right of this screen
Values Education
Teaching and Learning Resources: Early Adolescence - Lesson plans
KLA-based lesson plans with a values focus (approximately 50 minutes in length) for secondary (Early Adolescence) students are available for downloading as PDF files below. Each lesson includes teaching and learning strategies with introductory activities to engage students, guided inquiry and culminating activities.
http://www.valueseducation.edu.au/values/default.asp?id=17824
Victorian Association for Environmental Education
VAEE is in the process of producing units of work to fit within the VELS framework. These units of work will be published on the webpage below as they become available.
• Projects and resources with links with other VELS domain areas
Schools Revegetation Projects 2006 - Greening Australia Victoria
Consuming Planet Earth 2005 - A resource for Teaching and Learning linked to the 14 domains of VELS. Consumer Affairs Victoria
• Units of Work
Connexions: Energise me - A Year 9 student community-based program
A unit of work on Energy developed by Bree Moody and Kiersten Quinn (made available by the You Yangs Cluster).
http://www.vaee.vic.edu.au/resources/teaching/vels.htm
Civics and Citizenship Education
Teaching and Learning Activities - This section of the site contains a range of teaching and learning activities in CCE. These activities both complement and extend the teaching and learning activities in the Discovering Democracy resources.
http://www.civicsandcitizenship.edu.au/cce/teaching_and_learning_activities,9023.html