Citizenship and General Studies | Useful websites
Below is a list of websites that you may find useful. They have been grouped into categories so that, as the list grows, it will still be easy to find the websites that are of interest to you. Click on a category to see the websites for that topic; click on it again to close that group.
Citizenship and General Studies - general | This resource describes six young British consumers who swap their luxury lives for the simple mud huts and shanty towns of Africa and Asia to work alongside the people who mine, manufacture, process and recycle luxury goods. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00s6103 | This site helps to explain what it means to be a citizen - local, national or international. It gives an overview of issues dealt in the course. http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/citizenx | The UK's international cultural relations body. http://www.britishcouncil.org | This website is all about nuclear disarmament. http://www.cnduk.org | The Citizenship Foundation provides teachers and schools with the tools to deliver engaging and critical citizenship education. http://www.citizenshipfoundation.org.uk/index.php | Here you'll find a link to a presentation on global warming, which although suited for students studying geography in their first term of year 12, citizenship teachers should also find useful when teaching climate change. http://community.edexcel.com/files/folders/geography/entry4028.aspx | Demgames enables learning on UK democracy and local government topics. It has games on developing campaigns and gives an overview of the major challenges involved in running a public campaign around a political issue. http://www.demgames.org | This site presents examples of international issues covered in the course. http://www.oxfam.org.uk/coolplanet/kidsweb |
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