Publications

This page highlights additional print, video and realia resources available from AusAID Professional Development Providers to support schools in their presentation of Global Education. Print resources CD ROM resources DVD resources Games Order forms Print resources Climate Change: a topic generating a lot of heat This 20-page colour booklet has been developed by the Global Education Project. Contents include: What is climate change? Global warming and climate change. What is the impact of climate change on the environment? What is the impact of climate change on people? Case study: Climate change in the Pacific. Case study: Climate change in Asia. Climate change action. Available from: Geography Teachers' Association of Victoria PO Box 2066 Camberwell West 3124. Download flyer Delving into Deserts This colour booklet was developed by the Global Education Project in support of the International Year of Deserts and Desertification. Contents include: What are deserts? How are deserts used? How is the use of deserts changing? How is the changing use impacting the environment? How is desertification affecting people’s lives? How are people affected by desertification being assisted? What is being done to tackle desertification? Available from: Geography Teachers' Association of Victoria PO Box 2066 Camberwell West 3124. Download flyer Dying to go to the toilet: the sanitation challenge This 20-page colour booklet has been developed by the Global Education Project. Victoria. Contents include:Sanitation – what is the issue?; What are the global and regional patterns of sanitation?; How are people affected by sanitation?; How does poor sanitation impact on the environment?; Case studies: Sanitation in Timor-Leste, Papua New Guinea and Bangladesh; Action: what can be done to improve sanitation? Available from: Geography Teachers' Association of Victoria PO Box 2066 Camberwell West 3124. Download flyer Get Connected Get Connected is a bi-annual magazine produced by World Vision for students in upper primary and lower secondary classes. Focusing on big issues facing our world each edition includes up-to-date case studies, graphs, maps, charts, quizzes, ideas for internet research, and practical ideas for action. A free copy of each edition is distributed to Australian schools and further copies can be ordered from http://www.worldvision.com.au/learn/schoolResources/magazine.asp Global perspectives in the early years classroom Thinking Globally provides an informative description of global education in the early years and six chapters of cross-curricula activities. Chapters explore concepts of linking with others, personal identity, dimensions of change, social justice, rights and sustainable futures. Activities model a variety of ways of adding a global perspective to current programs and are organised around three levels of thinking. The book is accompanied by a CD-ROM of materials to support teachers. It includes a collection of photographs, some of The Learning Federation (TLF) Learning Objects and related teaching activities, templates for thinking activities, an annotated list of picture story books and a video modelling good global education in the classroom. Available from http://www.curriculumpress.edu.au/main/goproduct/12492 Globalise me! Title: Globalise me! A student's guide to globalisation Author: Trevor Poultney Publisher: Australian Agency for International Development/Curriculum Corporation, 2004 Description: 116 pages and CDROM . Globalise me! presents a range of resources to explore globalisation through the themes of People, Culture, Economy, trade and development, Technology, Politics and Environment. Each chapter consists of an introduction giving a broad overview of the theme, and a variety of resources – newspaper and magazine articles, tables, graphs, photos, cartoons – presenting a range of viewpoints. General questions on each theme and specific questions on the resources assist teachers and students in exploring the issues and the impact of globalisation, and in forming opinions and considering active responses. Age group: Upper Secondary ISBN: 1863665927 SCIS No: 1194261 Where to get it: Global Education Project Professional Development Providers in your state or territory: http://www.globaleducation.edna.edu.au/globaled/page156.html Curriculum Corporation http://www.curriculumpress.edu.au/main/goproduct/11810 Lifting the lid, A teaching resource for primary teachers for the International Year of Sanitation This 32 page full colour resource is packed with useful background information, case studies and teaching activities across all learning areas and makes the topic of sanitation not just important but very accessible. Available from the Global Education Centre, Torrens Building, 220 Victoria Square, Adelaide. gecsa@global-education.asn.au Potatoes (and other tubers & roots) Celebrating the International Year of the Potato. This book has been written to provide primary teachers with information and classroom activities for the International Year of the Potato which will be celebrated through out 2008...Activities include, simulation game, discussion starter, crosswords, recipes and much more. Available from the Global Education Centre, Torrens Building, 220 Victoria Square, Adelaide. gecsa@global-education.asn.au Teaching about other countries A teaching model for primary and middle school teachers. Teaching About Other Countries introduces teachers to an extended model designed to assist students to explore what they already know about countries and further develop their understanding of the concept of what a country is. Available from the Global Education Centre, Torrens Building, 220 Victoria Square, Adelaide. gecsa@global-education.asn.au Where are we in the world? Globe and Mapping activities for Junior Primary and Primary Students. Teachers today are aware of the importance of events in the world and their impact on all our lives, in a way that is different from other generations. Available from the Global Education Centre, Torrens Building, 220 Victoria Square, Adelaide. gecsa@global-education.asn.au CD ROM Cowries, Cash, Credit and Microcredit? This CD ROM has two sections. The first section was developed by the Global Education Centre of South Australia. It provides information sheets, student activity sheets and interactives about the history of currency, concepts of credit and debt, small business opportunities and microcredit.The second section, Global Science, was developed by CSIRO. It consists of three sections each of which includes a case study, investigation activities based on background materials and a short video, and general student activities which assist students understand how microfinance needs the broader support of improved approaches to rodent control, improved crop yields and weed management. The topics are: Rats in Rice - the problem of rodent control in Asian rice fields Essential Oils in PNG - the establishment of an essential oil industry to assist remote communities in PNG Biological Control of Water Weeds - the successful control of invasive water weeds along tracts of the Sepik River (PNG) and Lake Victoria (Africa) Microfinance: A Teacher's Resource for the International Year of Microcredit This resource has been written for primary and secondary teachers to introduce students to the concept of microcredit. Microcredit, and more broadly microfinance, is an important tool for reducing poverty and giving poor people a better chance to live. This resource provides teachers with a range of photographs as a photoliteracy tool for exploring the concepts of credit and debt, small business opportunities and microfinance. The material can be adapted to suit a wide variety of year levels and teaching and learning programs. Written and compiled by Francine Smith and Mark Wildy using original photographs by Francine Smith, and published by Global Education Centre (SA) for the Global Education Project. Contact your state/territory Global Education PD provider for a copy of the Microfinance CDROM. http://www.globaleducation.edna.edu.au/globaled/page156.html DVD Action Aid AusAID has produced a DVD with 7 six minute videos on aspects of the aid program. The videos are supported by curriculum material on the global education website. The address is on the DVD. Copies are available free from AusAID's publication distributor. books@ausaid.gov.au or National Mailing and Marketing, 11 Tralee Street, Hume ACT 2620. Teacher's notes are available from http://www.globaleducation.edna.edu.au/actionaid The tsunami disaster: Australia responds This DVD gives a general outline of AusAID's response to the December 26 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. It has short sections on work in Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Maldives. It is accompanied by a short booklet of student activities focusing on Levels 4 and 5 Literacy and SOSE/HSIE. Available from AusAID and the Global Education Project in your state: http://www.globaleducation.edna.edu.au/globaled/page156.html Games Go-Global Car Simulation This simulation game explores concepts of globalisation through the global car industry. Most of the world's ten largest transnational corporations (TNCs) are motor vehicle and oil companies, including Exxon (2) General Motors (3) and Ford (5). While in reality an average car has up to 30,000 parts, for the purposes of this game each car is 'built' from 12 major components. Many car companies also diversify to produce different versions of a popular model, or a sports model but in this game, such diversification is represented by the performance pack options. There is a random element to the game designed to reflect some advantages and disadvantages that real companies might have in the actual business world. Some components and factories are more expensive than others and, consequently, the profits to be made from selling components to other players also vary. Age group: Upper secondary Cost: $43.00 GST inclusive ($10 postage & handling for orders in SA and $12 postage & handling for other states) Where to get it: Global Education Centre South Australia http://www.global-education.asn.au Tropicana, A game to explore corruption Tropicana is a simulation game designed to introduce the problem of endemic petty corruption. Designed for a class of about 25 students, six students role-play civil servants of various ranks, while the remainder are citizens of an unnamed country applying for a first passport to go overseas. Debriefing after the game involves examining the personal and societal factors behind the culture of bribery and the effects of bribery at the personal, business and governmental levels. The game takes approximately 1 ½ hours to play. Age group: Lower secondary Cost: $35 + postage and packing. Where to get it: Global Education Centre 220 Victoria Square Adelaide, SA 5000. Phone: 8221 6744 Fax: 8221 6755 Email: gecsa@global-education.asn.au