Resource Centre

Social Studies Online

Asia2000
Contains resources and links relating to the Asia setting. Units will need adapting.

Global Education
Thus AusAID site offers resources for primary and secondary on a range of global issues child labour, disasters, environment, human rights, refugees and water.

Greenpeace International
Looking for information on current issues? You should find relevant material at the home of one of the best known global lobby groups.

Human Rights Watch Arms Project Report
Ever wanted to know who produced landmines and other armaments? This article identifies US companies involved.

Jubilee 2000 Coalition
This comprehensive site (including news, features and taking action) looks at the issue of debt. Jubilee 2000 is an international movement calling for cancellation of the unpayable debt of the world's poorest countries by the year 2000.
Levels 5 to 8

Mines Advisory Group
A UK based organisation working to clear mines and provide humanitarian aid to landmine victims. A keynote address by Diana, Princess of Wales is available.

National Archives (United Kingdom)
This link will take you direct to the Learning Curve exhibitions, which are based on topics in the History National Curriculum. They provide in-depth information, organised into galleries. Each gallery is an investigation into a theme using primary material, linked to an overall question. Interactive tasks and teachers' notes are included. Topics include the Cold War, the Home Front, Victorian England, the Great War, and Power, Politics and Protest.

National Archives (USA)
"Old photographs are time machines. They allow us to look back in history, freeze a moment in time, and imagine ourselves as part of the past." The Galleries include photographs from the Great War (World War I), The Depression, and World War II while the Portfolios represent some of America's best known photographers including the great landscape artist Ansel Adams and Dorothea Lange whose images of The Depression capture the despair of poverty.

New Zealand's Army: Ngati Tumatauenga
Interesting background information about the peacekeepers in East Timor, and other areas of operations such as Bosnia.
Levels 5 to 8

One World
One world is a community of organisations working from a range of perspectives and backgrounds to promote sustainable development and human rights. Take a look at the Perspectives section of the site. The Guides offer a range of viewpoints on many issues to provoke thinking and discussion, and the Think Tank is a window into issues, lessons, new thinking and debates on hot isues in development.
Levels 1 to 8

Peace Corps Kids' World
Did you ever wonder what it would be like to live in another country? Explore what every day life would be like if you lived overseas and read stories from around the world.
Levels 1 to 4

Sustainability Education Centre
Numerous links to environmental sites. Includes scenarios for planning and decision making within environmental contexts.

Te Papa (Museum of New Zealand)
Planning a trip to Te Papa? Find out what's on. Up to date information on current exhibitions.

UNICEF: Voices of Youth
A rich source of information on current issues relating to children. Includes Voices of Youth: A meeting place for young people.

UNMAS: UN Mine Action Service
A comprehensive overview of UN involvement in campaigns against landmines.

World Vision
A rich source of material for any topic relating to access to resources and social justice and human rights. The A-Z of Topics - a comprehensive set of downloadable topic sheets on a wide range of topics - is particularly useful.

World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
Environmental education programmes in New Zealand. Has a Science focus but there is something here for Social Studies too.

Worldwatch Institute
An organisation devoted to fostering the evolution of an environmentally sustainable society according to its mission statement. A comprehensive selection of news releases is free but its magazine is subscription based.