Science+studies

Links to Social Sciences resources in TIG
While most of the TIG website is applicable for Social Sciences, I thought I would link to some specific resources here to give you an initial taste of what is available on the website.

Lesson plans
The following lesson plans include New Zealand curriculum objectives, key competencies, NZCA achievement standards and links to local resources to match up with materials and resources that can be found on the TakingITGlobal site.


 * ~ Image ||~ Link to wiki page with NZ objectives and resources ||~ Description of resource on TakingITGlobal ||
 * [[image:http://takingitglobal.cachefly.net/images/homepage/content/classroom/ayiti.png width="158" height="84"]] || Ayiti - The Cost of Life. || Working with youth leaders at South Shore High School, Global Kids and Gamelab have developed Ayiti, a role-playing video game in which the player assumes the roles of family members living in rural Haiti. Over the course of the game, the player must choose among and balance various goals, such as achieving education, making money, staying healthy, and maintaining happiness while encountering unexpected events. The player must make many decisions that contribute to or detract from achieving his or her chosen goals. ||
 * [[image:http://takingitglobal.cachefly.net/images/homepage/content/classroom/orange.png width="156" height="78"]] || Orange Revolution || The project consists of three comprehensive lesson plans, assessment and evaluation tools and rubrics, curriculum links, a teacher's guide and an online simulation. Employing the simulation, students will stand in the shoes of various characters who took part in the Orange Revolution and see the influence of their decisions on the outcome of the events. ||

Other activities in the Lesson database
[|Lesson database] - You can search by curriculum area in the database. At times, these lessons might also link to outside resources leading you to even more resources. By searching for Social Sciences resources, these are some of the results I found:

[|Child soldiers: A webquest] This lesson profiles a webquest created as part of the United Nations Cyber School bus. Designed for secondary level, students work their way through the activities and websites to understand more about the 250 000 child soldiers involved in conflicts around the world.

[|Comparing my community with a Polar community - (Elementary)] This lesson asks students to describe their community in relation to its place, region and human systems and then to compare the same data with a northern polar region community in Canada to understand the similarities and differences between the two communities. Students will be able to discuss, record and represent the similarities and differences between their community and region of Canada and that of a northern polar community of Canada.

[|Kids with cameras] This series of lessons is based around the movie, "Born into Brothels" and examines the power of personal expression and looks at issues such as discrimination. The series of lessons can be [|downloaded in one document] as a toolkit on the site as well.

[|Podcast with Cambodian Genocide survivor and peace advocate Arn Chorn Pond.] A series of lessons about a podcast where Arn spoke passionately to the students about his personal history, the choices he has made to "Be the Change," and his thoughts about how each of us can play a role in preventing genocide. [|Podcast]- this is a resource outside of TIG [|Lesson plans to go with the podcast] - What I found when searching in TIG but also available outside of TIG on this link. If you do use the link from within TIG, you can choose to add the lesson to a TIG virtual classroom.

Toolkits
The toolkits available on the [|toolkit page of the site]. These follow an inquiry process with excellent information and templates to use when planning action. There are the following guides available:
 * General 'Guide to Action' toolkit
 * HIV/AIDS youth guide to action
 * Climate Change youth guide to action
 * Mental Health youth guide to action (coming soon)

Using LinkTV and TIG
[|Link TV] has perspectives on news stories from a variety of networks compiled into one video with accompanying lesson ideas. You could take the ideas explored in the videos and have students further research these areas in the TIG website and then respond to these in a TIG virtual classroom space through discussions, art and writing. For example, the video clip showing news perspectives on [|Turkish woman banned from wearing headscarfs to universities] could be shown and then students could further explore this in the [|Religion and Spirtuality section] of TIG (a sub-section of Culture and Identity). They could then complete activities in the virtual classroom space and could collaborate with another class of students - perhaps one that is based in a religious rather than secular state to see their perspectives.

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