Teacher's guide for Hotlisting Civics and Citizenship Education

by Lisa Hayman

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Introduction

This hotlist has been developed to clearly identify a number of key sites that can be used to support Civics and Citizenship Education programs.

Overview

Main Topic:	Civics Education
Subtopics:	, , ,
Grade Level:	Adult
Subject(s):	Social Studies
Learning Goal:	Not given

Vision and Reality

If the learning goal were achieved in the most ideal of perfect worlds it would look something like:

Many resources are available on the web to support Civics and Citizenship Education. This hotlist will take you to review the key sites that have been identified for Australia. If you come up with another site you think should be included please email me.

However, what I anticipate probably looks more like:

To complement the Discovering Democracy Resources that have been distributed to school since 1998 it would be great to identify sites which supported these units. Please feel free to email me if you have any you would reccommend and we could look at developing other hot lists to support these units.

The What - If Inventory

To give the activity its best chance at helping students learn, I assembled this list of possible resources:

Technology Resources

Internet Potential

Online Projects
Email pals with students from other countries - visit www.epals.com
General Resources
Discovering Democracy Resources
Primary and Secondary Kit
Australian Readers

Possible Collaborations

Special Events

ANZAC Day

Standards

Conclusion

created by Lisa Hayman email: hayman.lisa@bssc.edu.au http://www.web-and-flow.com/members/lhayman/civics/hotlist.htm