If you were Prime Minister for a day – what would you do to:
help our young people grow up safe, happy and resililient
give young people the skills they need to learn, work and fully engage in community life ?
reduce the physical and mental health risks facing young Australians, including negative body image, anxiety and depression, obesity and alcohol-fuelled violence?
enable young people to accept responsibility for their actions and their behaviours?
help young people to negotiate the challenges of today’s society?
Feedback received from young people via the Prime Minister’s blog will help inform the Government’s plan for young Australians.
The first Peace Day was celebrated on September 21, 1982 and officially declared in 2002.
The video above is of a song from the International Day Of Peace Alliance – a group in Brisbane which has initiated a project for schools - Peace Doves for Children in Conflict Zones . The aim is show support for children in Conflict Areas by sending them paper doves. An instuction sheet can be found at this linkIf your school doesn’t want to send the doves away, why not display them in the classroom or in Peace Trees around the school.
The Culture of Peace is a new initiative aimed at uniting the strenghts of existing organisations to build peace for future generations. It will be the Internet anchor for a Global World Peace Celebrations website where people from around the world can post videos and messages relating to the achievemnet of peace through environmental sustainabiulity.
11 Days of Global Unity Sept. 11-21 is an annual promotion of peace, justice and environmental responsibility that communities and organizations take part in around the world. It culminates on U.N. International Day of Peace.
Resources to support Peace Studies can be found on the CMIS Resource Bank.
WolframAlpha was announced in March 2009 by British physicist Stephen Wolfram, and was released to the public on May 15, 2009. Unlike Google, which searches for web resources to match a query, WolframAlpha generates answers to factual queries by computing the answer from available data.
This report, published annually, looks at the impact of emerging technologies on education and identifies key trends affecting the practice of teaching, learning, research, and creative expression.
Established in 1982, the United Nations’ International Day of Peace – celebrated each year on September 21 – is a time when individuals, communities, nations and governments highlight efforts to end conflict and promote peace. The United Nations has produced a new website which encourages people to promote Peace Day events anywhere in the world. Even the simple activity of lighting a candle or taking a walk for peace can be promoted on the site.
Global Education through OzProjects has created a website to support peace building as part of the celebration of International Peace Day, which makes use of technology to explore the Peace topic.
International Peace Day is also a Day of Ceasefire – be it personal, political or military. People around the globe are encouraged to make peace in relationships as well as in the world conflict zones.
The National Archives of Australia now has a Flickr presence
where a selected Pic of the Week from the vast collection is featured.
Each week a different image is uploaded from the NAA home page.
The featured photo is then linked back to the NAA site where teachers and students can explore the collection through the the extensive online resources section by registering with vroom[Virtual Reading Room]which gives easy access to archival records.
There is also access to special release documents, Australia’s Prime Ministers and Find of the Month. Each month, this section features something special of National Interest which has been selected by staff to display online.
Save the Children Australia aims to ensure that all children, regardless of gender, race, country of origin or religious belief have the means for survival, receive protection and have access to nutrition, primary health care and basic education.
Shocked by the suffering of children during the Balkans War, Eglantyne Jebb became a pioneer campaigning for worldwide safeguards for children. The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, adopted by the United Nations in 1989 and now ratified by nearly all countries worldwide, has its roots in her pioneering work.
Eglantyne was also the first to introduce the idea of sponsoring a child in a foreign country and using celebrity endorsements, getting the likes of famous playwright George Bernard Shaw on board.
Read Eglantyne Jebb’s inspirational story in the online book
An estimated 158 million children aged 5-14 are engaged in child labour – one in six children in the world. Millions of children are engaged in hazardous situations or conditions, such as working in mines, working with chemicals and pesticides in agriculture or working with dangerous machinery. They are everywhere but invisible, toiling as domestic servants in homes, labouring behind the walls of workshops, hidden from view in plantations.
In this interactive resource, 3 Plus U , users are invited to join Toshi, Kaia and Isabelle to explore all aspects of work in the modern world. Investigate issues including global work conditions, future freedom of choice, discrimination and freedom of association in the workplace.
The Child Labour theme page on the International Labor Organization website includes extensive print, video and audio resources to support teaching and learning programs. One example is included below.
Cameroon: The Challenge to Make Chocolate Child Labour Free – 11 June 2008 – There are over a quarter of a million children who work in the cocoa plantations of West Africa. It’s hazardous work, which exposes children to highly toxic pesticides. ILO TV reports from Cameroon, where the International Labour Organization has been working to eliminate child labour from cocoa production and help children return to school.
This interactive presentation: The Status of Children Around the World allows users to click on any of the major continents to view a detailed map of that region and information about its children. Users can also access extra charts and data about children around the world by clicking on th topic links.
Check out the Resource Centrefor resources, reports and articles from across the world on child labour.
The Girl Effect is a multimedia-rich website providing interactive, classroom-ready resources. Click on the LEARN, CHANGE, SHARE tabs to view videos and extra resources.
Embedded below is the Girl Effect video. (If you are using Internet Explorer 6 you will not be able to view the embedded video. Please use the link to access the video directly from the Girl Effect website.)
The CMIS Evaluation Blog is published by Curriculum Materials Information Services (CMIS), Department of Education and Training, Western Australia. It is designed to provide news about current events, resources and research to assist staff in schools to become aware of the most up-to-date, relevant resources for learning and teaching. The CMIS Evaluation Blog is supported by 3 specialist blogs: Fiction Focus, Primary Focus and Technology Focus.
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