HUMAN SOCIETY and ITS ENVIRONMENT
Stage Two
Listed below are links which support the following Units of Work found in
the NSW DET HSIE Support Documents.
Suggestions for additions to these lists are most welcome.
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Links Index
Cooperating Communities
Australia:You're Standing in It!
British Colonisation of Australia
Places:Then, Now and Tomorrow
People and
Their Beliefs
State and National Parks
Living in Communities
Who Will Buy?
Cooperating Communities

http://www.auslig.gov.au/facts/map.htm
Clickable map of Australia.
Clickable map: zoom in on different parts of Australia.

http://www.auslig.gov.au/mapping/names/names.htm
Find a town or city
Use this Search to find the location of places in Australia.

http://www.npws.nsw.gov.au/
NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service

http://aboriginalart.com.au/
Example of Aboriginal culture
Alice Springs site that has some useful information about the Arrernte culture including trade.

Australian Local Governments (Students)
Links to Local Council sites in NSW
http://www.nla.gov.au/oz/gov/local.html#CouncilsNSW

Community Groups (Students)
A NSW CAP On-line Research Module investigating how community groups help us in different ways.
http://www.nla.gov.au/oz/gov/local.html#CouncilsNSW

Links to Volunteer Community Groups (Students/Teachers)
The Salvation Army
http://www.salvos.org.au/

NSW State Emergency Services
http://www.ses.nsw.gov.au/

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Australia:You're Standing in It!

NSW National Parks and Wildlife - Aboriginal heritage and sites.
http://www.npws.nsw.gov.au/aboriginal/index.html

National Trust of Australia (NSW)
http://www.nsw.nationaltrust.org.au/aboutus.html

World Heritage List for the Asia - Pacific region
http://www.unesco.org/whc/nwhc/pages/sites/maplist/oceasia.htm
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British Colonisation of Australia

First Fleet
A Guide to Researching Your Convict Ancestors.
http://www.convictcentral.com/index.html

First Fleet Online consists of information about the convicts who were transported to Australia in 1787
http://cedir.uow.edu.au/programs/FirstFleet/

Aboriginal history - Aboriginal settlement and circa 1800.
http://www.koori.iisds.com/history.htm

Australian Aboriginal People links - includes history.
http://www.trinity.wa.edu.au/plduffyrc/indig/default.htm

Australia's Settlement and Early History
http://www.trinity.wa.edu.au/plduffyrc/subjects/sose/austhist/settle.htm

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  Places:Then, Now and Tomorrow

http://www.dreamtime.net.au/
Aboriginal Culture
Virtual museum - Indigenous Australians.

http://www.naa.gov.au/the_collection/photosearch.html
Heritage photo search
PhotoSearch allows you to search and browse over 128,000 captions and more than 9000 images from the National Archives' photographic collection.

http://www.australianlandscapes.com/index.html
Australian landscape photographs
A unique collection of Australian images by a unique collection of Australian photographers

 People and Their Beliefs

http://www.educate.net.au/feature_archive/religion/
Information relating to the history, texts and the traditional beliefs and practices of a variety of religions.

http://www.dreamtime.net.au/index.cfm
Aboriginal Culture
Information on Indigenous Australia including Cultural Heritage, Spirituality, Family, Land and Social Justice.

http://www.dreamtime.net.au/dreaming/index.htm
Aboriginal Culture
Information on Indigenous Australia including Cultural Heritage, Spirituality, Family, Land and Social Justice.

http://www.catholic.net/RCC/people/mother/teresa/teresa.html
About the life of Mother Teresa.

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State and National Parks

http://www.npws.nsw.gov.au/index.html
New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service.

http://www.nps.gov/yell/planvisit/rules/index.htm
Yellowstone National Park in America - Rules and Regulations.

http://members.dynamite.com.au/heap/
Definition of "old growth forests'.

http://www.wilderness.org.au/member/tws/projects/Forests/why4.html
Old growth forests.

http://www.koori.usyd.edu.au/students/daleneileeyo/#Heading5
The importance of Aboriginal Sites as part of our Cultural heritage.

http://www.unesco.org/whc/nwhc/pages/sites/maplist/oceasia.htm
World Heritage sites for Asia-Pacific area.

Living in Communities

http://www.greeningaustralia.org.au/
Greening Australia.

http://www.streamwatch.org.au/
Streamwatch.

http://www.cleanup.com.au/Main.asp?RequestType=Homepage&SubRequestType=Internet&catid=1
Clean up Australia Day.

http://www.dnathan.com/VL/byState.htm#NSW
Aboriginal languages by states.

http://www.acn.net.au/articles/anzac/
Anzac Day

http://www.anzacday.org.au/
Anzac Day

http://www.anzacday.biz
Anzac Day Database Turkey

http://www.adc.nsw.gov.au/indig.htm
Survival Day - Australia day symbolises invasion, dispossession and death to many Aboriginal people.

http://www.nadc.com.au/index.php
Australia Day

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  Who Will Buy?

http://www.svdpuscouncil.org/WHATWEDO.html
The Society of St. Vincent de Paul's purposes.

http://www.smithfamily.org.au/ThePrograms/TBC-EmergencyHelp.cfm
The Smith Family Emergency Help service.

http://www.midcoast.com.au/~ttc/buy.html
Link to clickable worksheet for the topic "Who will Buy".

http://www.gould.edu.au/waste_stop/act_03.htm
Reducing waste
The 3 R's Reduce, Reuse and Recycle

http://www.gould.edu.au/waste_stop/act_intro.htm
Reducing waste
Waste stoppers - A series of information sheets dealing with all aspects of waste minimisation. Suitable for students, teachers and the public.

http://www.cap.nsw.edu.au/bb_site_intro/stage2_Modules/taylormade/taylormade.htm
NSW CAP OnLine Research Module

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