Game 2 of the ASX Schools Sharemarket Game starts on August 19 and registrations have already opened. This is a great opportunity to have your students interacting online, in what is as close to real life share trading as you can get.
The game is designed to supplement your existing curriculum – especially commerce, SOSE, general studies and economics. It uses real sharemarket prices and is conducted during the hours of actual sharemarket trading requiring students to adjust their decision making to take account of changing events
A valuable, fun and engaging activity, you need to first register your school to participate. To learn more click here
IDEAS (Innovative and Dynamic Educational Activities for Schools) is a set of free downloadable resources for Australian classrooms. Each IDEAS resource features a curriculum context, a learning sequence and reproducible worksheet/s. Produced by ACSA (the Australian Curriculum Studies Association), a new IDEAS resource is added to the ACSA website each term.
A new preamble for the Australian Constitution?
Level: 10-12
Curriculum Area: History / Legal Studies
In this learning sequence students explore the role and function of the preamble in the Australian Constitution. They also consider what a new preamble might say, and identify values they would want to see included if a new preamble were to be developed...more...
Defending a nation
Level: Middle Years
Curriculum Area: SOSE / Citizenship
This resource encourages students to explore attitudes towards the right of governments
to compel citizens to join the armed forces, and the responsibility of citizens to serve, in
times of conflict...more...
Developing cultural sensitivity in the classroom
Level: 5-10
Curriculum area: SOSE, Values Education
This resource provides a short learning sequence that focuses on developing cultural sensitivity and intercultural understanding... more...
Acknowledgement of Country
Level: All Years
Curriculum Area: Cross-curriculum
This activity encourages students to develop a respect for, and understanding of, Indigenous protocols used in the community...more...
A nation of many cultures
Level: Middle years
Curriculum Area: SOSE / Values Education
This resource encourages students to explore attitudes towards different cultural groups in the Australian community... more...
Is it alright to steal if it makes you feel good?
Level: Lower Primary
Curriculum Area: Cross-Curriculum
This resource will introduce young students to the philosophical skills of inquiry and
reasoning...more...
Who Cares?
Level: Middle Years
Curriculum Area: Cross-curriculum
This resource encourages students to critically analyse the way that values are embedded in
the images that surround us... more...
Melbourne Museum presents a day of discovery of real life in the Pacific. For teachers of Years 5-9, this professional learning program on Wednesday 28 July (9.15am-3.30pm) looks at how the Pacific nations evolved, the people, customs, incredible navigational feats, contemporary life and challenges ahead for this region on our doorstep.
Participants will:
•explore all parts of the museum
•design activities to use with your students
•hear about the design and cultural contents of the Te Vainui O Pasifika exhibition
•participate in activities to help you unpack a new resource and
•receive a copy of Pacific Neighbours – a new 60 page glossy resource with CDRom.
Suitable for teachers of years 5-9, this one day workshop will be accompanied by full CRT and includes lunch.
Phone the Museum on 1300 130 152 to book a place.
Be they written or multimedia entries, the I Plan a Business (iPAB) Competition is for Melbourne’s Western Region students in Years 10 and 11 encouraging them to learn business planning skills. Prizes to the value of $500 are on offer in each category and all students receive a certificate for their entry.
The concept was developed by Victoria University and fine-tuned with the help of teachers from the Western Region of Melbourne with the aim of connecting the competition with the curriculum.
All students in secondary schools in the local government areas of Brimbank, Hobsons Bay, Maribyrnong, Melton, Moonee Valley and Wyndham are eligible to enter.
Schools can register by March to receive updates.Due date for plans is Wednesday 30 June.Award ceremony August 2010.For further information click here or contact Peter Folino at the Faculty of Business and Law, Victoria University, on 03 9919 1556.
The Australian Chapter of the SIEC-ISBE is hosting the organisation's 82nd international conference. Held in Albury Wodonga Australia the conference, Ethics and Sustainability in Business, is on 18 - 23 July 2010.
SIEC-ISBE is a professional organisation promoting education about business for students at all levels of the educational spectrum. Members are teachers, professors, and business professionals from around the world.
For conference details go to www.siec-isbe.org.au/conference The registration fee is $1000 or $900 early bird if paying by 18 May 2010.
Call for Papers close 15 February 2010. To submit go to www.siecisbe.org