Social+Science

==**General Social Sciences Resources **==

[|6 Billion Others] An amazing international project which aims to capture the story of people from all around the world by asking questions about universal values, what is happiness and what lessons can we learn from life's difficulties.

[|What the World Eats] A Time Magazine photo essay which looks at 15 families from around the world and what they eat in a week.

[|NewsMap] A map visually reflecting the constantly changing landscape of Google News.

[|Mapping the News] This website combines Yahoo! news and Google Maps. You are presented a map of the world. You can click anywhere on the map and it will bring up the current news at that location.

[|Newseum] This site contains the front page of hundreds of newspapers from over 60 countries. The newspapers change every day. Fascinating to look at the way international stories are covered in different parts of the world. An excellent resource for use with a data projector.

Subject Specific Resources
Click on the subjects below to be directed to resources which are very specific to particular subjects within the Social Sciences. Please add resources you are using in your own classrooms.
 * = ==History == || **==**Social Studies**==
 * ||= ==Geography== ||= ==Economics== ||= =Media Studies= ||

Please share your own stories about how you are using ICT in your classroom. What works, what didn't, links with the new curriculum and how does ICT in your classroom improve student engagement?
 * What Our Cluster Teachers are Doing **

A couple of teachers in the Social Sciences department at Hillcrest are trialling Moodle with one or two of their classes. A trial of Moodle has been supplied by Wintec until the end of the year. At the moment, some teachers are using discussion forums to post images which students are invited to respond to and discuss. The images are being obtained from sites such as TimeFrames which is a wonderful database of all sorts of images and documents provided by the Alexander Turnbull Library. It is a resource well-worth a look. At the moment while students get used to the format, the teacher is sourcing these images and getting the discussions started. It is hoped that soon it will be the students who will be accessing this database and finding their own images to share and discuss. The nice thing about both this database and moodle is that the teacher can narrow the search field down for the students and simply post a link to a search which includes images directly relevant to the topic. We will update this with some examples when they start coming through.
 * Moodle**



I thought that I would start the ball rolling with a quick introduction and some of the resources that I have used in the last few days. I'm Sarah Hewitt, or (Cantlon) out of school and am the assistant head of social studies at Hamilton Girls' High. We are currently doing a unit based around **inequalities** **for Year 10** and here are some useful websites I have used as introductions to this unit.

http://www.miniature-earth.com/ This is a great website which introduces the idea of the world being cut down to 100 people what would it look like.

[|www.**worldonfire**.ca/] This is a Sarah Mclaughlin song about where the funds could go if they didn't go to paying for a video clip.

Hope these are useful

Sarah

Another site that is really interesting for inequalities and could be great for population Geography is: http://www.gapminder.org/ Go to the bit that says: EXPLORE THE WORLD and find a fantastic set of stats you can "animate" over time. I reckon this would ber great for population geo.
 * Hi A note from Josephine from Hamilton Girls'**

Here is a very intersting analysis of Obama's inauguration speech, compared with the speeches of other former presidents http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/tag_clouds_of_obamas_inaugural_speech_compared_to_bushs.php Not quite sure what its application is, but i tghink it is very interesting!!!