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This page holds all the good stuff, the resource links. First are the links specific to the current unit the class is engaged in, Ancient Civilisations. The first list are sites that the students will be using throughout their enquiry unit, followed by links for teachers. After these are list of sites that are general SOSE sites and others that are multi subject sites. =====

Ancient Civilisation Links
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﻿Ancient Egypt Web Pages @http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/egypt/ Find some great information about Ancient Egypt @http://cumbavac.org/Ancient_Egypt.htm This site has a list of websites put together especially for students @http://www.kidskonnect.com/subject-index/16-history/253-ancient-egypt.html Another great page with information about ancient egypt includes writing with hierogpyphics @http://www.guardians.net/egypt/hieroglyphs/hiero-translator.htm Write your name in Hieroglyphics []

Museums @http://www.civilisations.ca/cmc/exhibitions/civil/egypt/egypt_e.shtml Canadian Museum of Civilisations @http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/menu.html The British Museum [] The Ashmolean Art and Archaeology Museum of Oxford

Ancient Greece Web Pages

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 Ancient Rome Web Pages @http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/romans/ @http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/romans/ @http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0210200/ancient_rome/rome.htm @http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/romans/ @http://www.kidskonnect.com/subject-index/16-history/262-ancient-rome.html @http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/subjects/ancientrome.htm @http://www.kidspast.com/world-history/0076-ancient-rome.php @http://www.roman-empire.net/children/index.html @http://rome.mrdonn.org/index.html

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Egypt
@http://egypt.mrdonn.org/lessonplans/index. Mr Donn has put together a list of lesson plans that you can use or adapt to teach about different aspects of Ancient Egyptian life. @http://cumbavac.org/Ancient_Egypt.htm Another great site with a collect of lesson plans about Ancient Egyptian life. @http://cumbavac.org/Ancient_Egypt.htm Here you will find a small collection of web quests about Ancient Egypt. @http://egypt.mrdonn.org/powerpoints.html Mr Donn has put together some power point presentations for teachers to help teach about different aspects of Ancient Egyptian Life. @http://egypt.phillipmartin.info/ Phillip Martin has done a great job of producing clipart that will appeal to most age groups. This link will take you to his list of clipart that is representative of Ancient Egypt.

Greece
@http://greece.mrdonn.org/lessonplans/gods.html

@http://greece.mrdonn.org/lessonplans.html

@http://greece.phillipmartin.info/index.htm Phillip Martin has done a great job of producing clipart that will appeal to most age groups. This link will take you to his list of clipart that is representative of Ancient Greece. @http://www.cjims.org/ This web page has lists of websites, lesson plans and webquest on Ancient Greece and Rome.

Rome
@http://rome.mrdonn.org/lessonplans/index.html

@http://rome.mrdonn.org/lessonplans.html

@http://rome.phillipmartin.info/index.htm Phillip Martin has done a great job of producing clipart that will appeal to most age groups. This link will take you to his list of clipart that is representative of Ancient Rome. @http://www.cjims.org/ This web page has lists of websites, lesson plans and webquest on Ancient Greece and Rome.

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= ﻿General SOSE Resource Links  = Here are some links to general S.O.S.E. **online resource pages** that I have found to be useful. They are separated into **free and paid sites**. The freesites are exactly that, you can access and download some great resources and ideas from here for nothing. The paid sites you will either need to pay a year subscription that gives you either limited access or complete access depending on how much you pay, some may not require you to pay a yearly fee but charge per item you download.

If you know of any really great sites that I don't know about post them to the discussion board for this page and I will check them out (your help and contributions are most definitely appreciated and encouraged).

There are also some lesson plans added to the page for you to check out and adapt if you need be. If they are my own there will not be a link to where I got it from but for those that I have found and think are great or easily adapted to our curriculum I will add the link to where I found it and the date I retrieved it. Other S.O.S.E. Online Resources (web links)

S.O.S.E. Pages
@http://www.tigweb.org/tiged/ This site is a great global community site that has a special area for educators. It includes resources, learning activities and you can create a virtual classroom. Check it out, has some great potential to be used in the classroom.
 * Free Resources**

@http://www.myplaceforteachers.edu.au/default.asp On this website you will find rich educational material to support primary and lower-secondary teachers using the //My Place// TV series in the classroom. Explore background information, aligned with the //My Place// stories, on events and people that are significant to Australia's history. Download clips and stills from the TV series, as well as teaching activities and student activity sheets that relate to current themes. Go behind the scenes with production information and interviews, or chat with other teachers and share stories in the teacher's forum.

@http://bestwebquests.com/bwq/listarea.asp?wqcatid=6&edid= This web page gives a list of 51 History & Social studies webquests each with a rating out of 5 stars. There are 25 early to middle school, 25 high school and 1 adult webquest links each with a brief discription of the webquest. Be sure to check them out when you want to find something new and exciting for your students to do.


 * Paid Resources**

Multi Subject Sites

@http://primarygamesarena.com/wide.php This site is easy to use and has some great educational games from across the curriculum and across year levels.
 * Free Sites**

@http://www.coreknowledge.org/mimik/mimik_live_data/view.php?id=1833&record_id=173&p=1 An American website that has some good links for teachers across the curriculum and across year levels including the history.

@http://exchange.smarttech.com/index.html The Smart Exchange is a great resource site for quick IWB and Smart Board activities. You can search by subject and year group.

@http://www.primaryschool.com.au/index.php Free Primary School Lesson Plans & Education Resources

@http://www.primaryschool.com.au/webquestsresults.php This site gives you a list of 25 webquests. I have not looked at all of them to ensure that they have been maintained but the few I have looked at are great.

@http://bestwebquests.com/default.asp This site is a great resource for webquests. The creators have searched out and catagorised webquests for you, given you a brief discription and a rating. Have fun trying them out (just to check they are still working of course).

@http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ This website is from England (it is the British Broadcasting Corp. site for schools) and has some really great ICT resources for teachers to use in the classroom either for whole class or individually activities. I have used it in a classroom for both SOSE and math and the kids really loved the activities, especially the ones about ancient Egypt.

@http://www.pppst.com/ Pete's Power Point Station has a great array of Power Point presentations across a wide range of KLA's. I am sure you will find at least one usefull (I have not had the opportunity to see all of them so it is advised that you look at these before presenting them to the class).

http://www.teachthis.com.au The people who started and still maintain the site are a husband and wife team. Trish is a teahcer here in QLD and John is a computer systems administrator who maintains the site and loves helping teachers access great resources. Check out their story on the 'about us' tab at the bottom of the page it is truely inspiring. I Iove this site and love the great teaching aids they create. This site has a yearly subscription that gives you access to all of there printable resources. Be warned though that even if you download the resource you want you must have a current membership to open it, so print it if you want it and laminate. Another great thing about this site is that if you are a member you can contact John and Trish with your need and/or idea for a particular resource and they will create it for you and make it available on the site to print. Even though they are form Qld they have teachers from all over the world accessing their resources and they have even made it possible for these interstate and international teacher to print the resources in the print font that is used in their school.
 * Paid Sites**

Lesson Plans

Unit Plans