Wednesday, September 23, 2015

Civics and Citizenship Forum in September 2015

Image above: The important concepts for the Australian Curriculum: Civics and Citizenship


Related sites to Humsteach blog 
Spatialworlds
Australian Curriculum Portal
GeogSpace
AC History Units
Geogaction
DECD Learning Resources for Australian Curriculum
DECD Achievement Standards Charts 
Australian Geography Teachers' Association website

Geography Teachers Association of South Australia
History Teachers Association of South Australia
History Teachers Association of Australia
Legal Education Teachers Association SA (LETASA)
Business Educators Australia

Email contact:
malcolm.mcinerney@sa.gov.au

* September 2015 Civics and Citizenship Forum PowerPoint presentation


* Australian Curriculum: Civics and Citizenship  on the Australian Curriculum Portal



Relevant resources and links

 * Being a Citizen: a resource developed by AGTA


 South Australian Parliament teaching resources



* South Australian Virtual War Memorial

 * DECD Australian Curriculum Implementation guidelines

* July and September Civics and Citizenship Forum in the city

Discovering Democracy resources 

* Parliamentary Education Office resources


DECD has recently launched their "Making the Australian Curriculum work for us' resource to support the teaching and learning of the Australian Curriculum: HASS.
As you can see below the resource to date includes a creative animation, broadsheets on the curriculum and 'talking heads'.


Achievement Standards Chart and activities for HASS from DECD 

The Civics and Citizenship Achievement Standards chart is at:  http://www.decd.sa.gov.au/assessment/files/links/acchart_civicscitizenship.pdf



 Assessment activities are at:
http://www.decd.sa.gov.au/assessment/default.asp?navgrp=Leader


The RSLSA Virtual War Memorial

A great resource for commemoration activities, historical research and work on Australian identity in the Civics and Citizenship curriculum.


The South Australian Suffragettes site

A great South Australian history site focussed on the work of the suffragettes in South Australia.