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=**Civics and Citizenship Education**=

Description of Resource:
The Civics and Citizenship Education website contains resources, information, activities and links for teachers, students and parents involved in civics and citizenship education. Civics and citizenship education promotes students' participation in Australia's democracy by equipping them with the knowledge, skills, values and dispositions of active and informed citizenship. It entails knowledge and understanding of Australia's democratic heritage and traditions, its political and legal institutions and the shared values of freedom, tolerance, respect, responsibility and inclusion.

The website contains a lot of useful information and resources for both teachers and students. Including **Discovering Democracy Units** of work designed for primary and secondary students. As well as **Teaching and Learning activities** and resources for both primary and secondary students.

To connect to the Civics and Citizenship Education home page click onto the link below [|Civics & Citizenship Education website]

The section labelled **Discovering Democracy Units** will link to many units of work based on discovering democracy. The Discovering Democracy Units are the electronic version of the Discovering Democracy Units books. The four books form part of the Discovering Democracy Kits distributed to all primary and secondary schools in 1998.
 * ==Discovering Democracy Units==

The units of work listed below are especially designed to cater for middle and upper primary school students. Each unit of work can be used individually or the units designed for older students contain some activities that you can use as extension activities for the younger students (there are also units of work for lower and upper high school students that can be used as extension activities for upper primary school students).

//You can click on to any of the topics below to go straight to the webpage that contains details of the unit.//
 * [[image:http://www1.curriculum.edu.au/ddunits/images/over_theme.gif width="92" height="51" caption="Themes" link="http://www1.curriculum.edu.au/ddunits/units/themes.htm"]] || [[image:http://www1.curriculum.edu.au/ddunits/images/over_middlep.gif width="105" height="49" caption="Middle Primary"]] || [[image:http://www1.curriculum.edu.au/ddunits/images/over_upperprim.gif width="105" height="49" caption="Upper Primary"]] ||  ||   ||
 * [[image:http://www1.curriculum.edu.au/ddunits/images/over_whorules.gif width="80" height="62" caption="Who Rules?"]] || [[image:http://www1.curriculum.edu.au/ddunits/images/over_storiespandr.gif width="105" height="62" caption="Stories of the People and Rules" link="http://www1.curriculum.edu.au/ddunits/units/mp1stories-glance.htm"]] || [[image:http://www1.curriculum.edu.au/ddunits/images/over_parlvsmon.gif width="105" height="62" caption="Parliament vs Monarch" link="http://www1.curriculum.edu.au/ddunits/units/up1parl-glance.htm"]] ||  ||   ||
 * [[image:http://www1.curriculum.edu.au/ddunits/images/over_lawandrights.gif width="80" height="62" caption="Law and Rights"]] || [[image:http://www1.curriculum.edu.au/ddunits/images/over_rulesandl.gif width="105" height="62" caption="Rules and Laws" link="http://www1.curriculum.edu.au/ddunits/units/mp2rules-glance.htm"]] || [[image:http://www1.curriculum.edu.au/ddunits/images/over_thelawrules.gif width="105" height="62" caption="The Law Rules" link="http://www1.curriculum.edu.au/ddunits/units/up2thelaw-glance.htm"]] ||  ||^   ||
 * [[image:http://www1.curriculum.edu.au/ddunits/images/over_theaustn.gif width="80" height="62" caption="The Australian Nation"]] || [[image:http://www1.curriculum.edu.au/ddunits/images/over_weremember.gif width="105" height="62" caption="We remember" link="http://www1.curriculum.edu.au/ddunits/units/mp3remember-glance.htm"]] || [[image:http://www1.curriculum.edu.au/ddunits/images/over_peoplemakenat.gif width="105" height="62" caption="The People make a Nation" link="http://www1.curriculum.edu.au/ddunits/units/up3nation-glance.htm"]] ||  ||   ||
 * [[image:http://www1.curriculum.edu.au/ddunits/images/over_citizensandpl.gif width="80" height="62" caption="Citizens and Public Life"]] || [[image:http://www1.curriculum.edu.au/ddunits/images/over_joining.gif width="105" height="62" caption="Joining In" link="http://www1.curriculum.edu.au/ddunits/units/mp4join-glance.htm"]] || [[image:http://www1.curriculum.edu.au/ddunits/images/over_peoplepower.gif width="105" height="62" caption="People Power" link="http://www1.curriculum.edu.au/ddunits/units/up4power-glance.htm"]] ||  ||   ||

To find out more detail about these units of work, plus units for lower and upper high school students, go to the Discovering Democracy Units webpage by clicking on the link below [|Discovering Democracy Units]

There are many teaching and learning activities on the website designed to assist for both primary and secondary students learn about democracy and government. A few examples of the activities for **upper primary** students includes: [|Teaching Democratic Values__] [|Local Government: Collaborative Projects: Have Your Say] [|Local Government: Town hall detective] [|Voting and Elections: Voting: Should you have to?] [|Voting – choosing your parliamentary representatives] Forming Government and Passing Legislation
 * ==Teaching and Learning Activities==

Click onto the link below to go to the page that has **all the teaching and learning activities** for upper primary aged students, and from there you can access all of the teaching and learning activities for different age groups [|Upper primary teaching and learning activities]

Click onto the Article below for guide on how to navigate this website and participate in a **WebQuest designed for Pre-service teachers.**

Age & Stage Appropriate:
The Civics and Citizenship Education website is specifically for teachers and students from middle primary to upper high school who want to know more than the basic facts about how the Australian Parliament works. I think that it is also an excellent resource for __teachers__ because it has many Democracy Units and teaching/ learning strategies that teachers can use when teaching Civics & Citizenship and the Australian parliamentary system. As a resource for teachers it is easy to read and user friendly.
 * === Curriculum Documentation – Every Chance to Learn Outcomes === ||
 * ELA 1: Uses a range of strategies to think and learn || X || ** ELA 10 ** : Writes effectively || / || ** ELA 19: ** Understands and applies scientific knowledge ||  ||
 * ELA 2: Understands and applies the inquiry process ||  || ** ELA 11 ** : Critically interprets and creates texts || / || ** ELA 20: ** Acts for an environmentally sustainable future ||   ||
 * ** ELA 3 ** : Makes considered decisions ||  || ** ELA 12 ** : Takes action to promote health ||   || ** ELA 21 ** : Understands about Australia and Australians || / ||
 * ELA 4: Acts with integrity and regard for others ||  || ** ELA 13: ** Is physically skilled and active ||   || ** ELA 22: ** Understands and values what it means to be a citizen within a democracy || X ||
 * ELA 5: Contributes to group effectiveness ||  || ** ELA 14: ** Manages self and relationships ||   || ** ELA 23 ** : Understands world issues and events ||   ||
 * ** ELA 6 ** : Uses Information and Communication Technologies effectively ||  || ** ELA 15: ** Communicates with intercultural understanding ||   || ** ELA 24: ** Makes informed choices about money and finance ||   ||
 * ** ELA 7 ** : Creates, presents and appreciates artistic works ||  || ** ELA 16: ** Understands and applies number ||   || ** ELA 25 ** : Designs, makes and appraises using technology ||   ||
 * ** ELA 8 ** : Listens and speaks with purpose and effect || / || ** ELA 17: ** Chooses and uses measures ||  ||   ||   ||
 * ** ELA 9 ** : Reads effectively || / || ** ELA 18: ** Recognises and represents patterns and relationships ||  ||   ||   ||


 * === Quality Teaching Model === ||
 * **Intellectual Quality** |||| **Significance** |||| **Quality Learning Environment** ||
 * Deep Knowledge || X || Background Knowledge || X || Explicit Quality Criteria ||  ||
 * Deep Understanding || X || Cultural Knowledge || X || Engagement || X ||
 * Problematic Knowledge ||  || Knowledge Integration ||   || High Expectations ||   ||
 * Higher-order Thinking || X || Inclusivity || X || Social Support || X ||
 * Metalanguage ||  || Connectedness ||   || Student’s self-regulation || X ||
 * Substantive Communication || X || Narrative || X || Student Direction || X ||

X || Aural X || Kinaesthetic X || Real World Connections X ||
 * === 21st Century Learners === ||
 * Visual

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This is a resource for teachers that contains many teaching strategies / suggestions for students. Both the Discovering Democracy Units and the Teaching/Learning activities have a large variety of teaching strategies / suggestions for every topic that appeal to different learning styles and abilities. ======
 * Give Examples of Values** : Write down examples from your own experiences or from history, books, films, television or cartoons of people displaying the following values: Care and Compassion / Doing Your Best / Fair Go / Freedom / Honesty and Trustworthiness / Integrity / Respect / Responsibility / Understanding, Tolerance and Inclusion

Extra Teaching Strategies / Suggestions

 * ======Students can read and recount factual information in a written report, power point presentation, short script, newspaper article or poster/collage etc...======
 * ======Students can research and become experts on different aspects of politics - then become Peer Experts and relay facts to other class members======
 * ======Students can write a historical account, political cartoon / newspaper article or journal entry for a person involved in the history of Australian parliament======
 * ======Students can use role-play strategies to enhance their understanding of an aspect of the topic - eg: Role-play the First Parliament of Australia ceremony======
 * ======Students can participate in a debate about different ways of governing - eg: Australia’s constitutional monarchy and the republic of the United States.======
 * ======Students can write a poem. legend, short play script or news articles about some aspect of the politics that they have learnt about that interested them======
 * ======Students can research background information and statistics about an aspect of the politics that they have learnt about and create a graph to represent the information======
 * ======Students can design and build a model of the perfect Parliament house - what would the student incorporate?======
 * ======Students can create an art work and/or painting to represent some aspect of the topic - ie the history of Australian politics======
 * Students can participate in scripted and non-scripted role-play activities in the classroom
 * ======The teacher can instigate a Parliamentary Club in their class (or combined with all upper primary students) that students can participate in in order to gain a deeper understanding of the parliamentary process.======