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Global Connections

Texts

• Country Studies series: Brazil, India, Italy, Japan, South Africa, USA
  Heinemann Library, 1998
  
  
• A Visit to.... series: Brazil, Cambodia, China, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, United Kingdom, Vietnam
  Heinemann Library, 1998-89
  
  
• Organisations that Help the World series: Amnesty International; Greenpeace; The Red Cross and the Red Crescent; The United Nations; The United Nations Commissioner for Refugees; The World Wide Fund For Nature
  Macmillan, 1993
  
  
• People Who have Helped the World series: Abraham Lincoln; Charlie Chaplin; Eleanor Roosevelt; Helen Keller; Mikhail Gorbachev; Peter Benerson; Robert Baden- Powell; Sir Peter Scott
  Macmillan, 1993
  
  
• Scientists Who Have Changed the World series: Albert Einstein; Alexander Graham Bell; Galileo Galilei; Isaac Newton; James Watt; Johan Gutenberg; Margaret Mead; The Wright Brothers
  Macmillan, 1993
  
  
• Environment Pack series: Atmosphere, Industry and The Environment, Household Chemicals, War against, Waste Biodegradability
  Macmillan, 1994
  
  
• Countries of the World series: Australia, Canada, China, England, Japan, Mexico, Brazil, Egypt, France, Germany, India, Russia
  Times Edition, 1998/9
  
  
• Disaster and Survival (set)
  Courage Rigby English Upper Primary B, Rigby Heinemann, 1999
  
  
• Discovering series: Australia, Brazil, China, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Ireland, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Russia, Spain, USA
  Zoe Books, 1997
  
  
• Worldwise: The World at Large
  Demamiel, S., Macmillan, 1999
  
  
• The Global Education Resource
  Department of Education and Training, 1996
  
  
• Fred Martin Step into series: Germany, Italy, Russia, Spain, Japan Indonesia, Kenya, South Korea, Australia
  Heinemann Library, 1998
  
  
• Learning about the Law series: Protecting Children Around the World
  Macmillan, 1996
  
  
• Life on Earth (set)
  Rigby English Middle Primary B, Rigby Heinemann, 1999
  
  
• Life Stories series: Louis Braille, Anne Frank, Helen Keller, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, Mother Teresa
  Wayland, 1995
  
  
• Minerals for the Future
  Department of Minerals and Energy, Queensland,1994
  
  
• Mineral Magic
  Australian Mining Industry Council
  
  
• The Media (set)
  Rigby English Upper Primary C, Rigby Heinemann 1997.
  
  
• Postcards From.... series: Brazil, Canada, China, Egypt, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Mexico, Poland, Peru, Russia, South Africa, Spain, USA, United Kingdom, Vietnam, West Indies
  Zoe Books
  
  
• Water, the vital Ingredient
  World Vision Education Services, 1998
  
  
• World Focus series: Bangladesh, Brazil, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Jamaica, Kenya, Mexico, Pakistan, Senegal, South Africa, Vietnam
  1996
  
  
• A World of Texts: Global Understanding in the Classroom
  Global Learning Centre, Queensland, 1995
  
  
• Songman
  Baille, A., Viking, 1994
  
  
• Bangladesh - Economically Developing Country
  Bruce, S., Wayland, 1994
  
  
• Ghana - Economically Developing Country
  Bruce, S., Wayland, 1994
  
  
• Germany - Modern Industrial World
  Burke, P., Wayland 1995
  
  
• A Better World for All: Development Education for the Classroom
  Calder, M. & Smith, R., AusAID/AGPS, 1992
  
  
• Teacher's Guide to Families of the World
  Calder, M., Collivier, A. & Wildy, M., AUSDAID, 1995
  
  
• India - Economically Developing Country
  Cummings, D., Wayland, 1993
  
  
• World Issues
  Demamiel, S., Macmillan, 1995
  
  
• World Wise - The World at Large
  Demamiel, S., Macmillan,1995
  
  
• Communication Systems
  Demant, D., Macmillan, 1994
  
  
• Vietnam - Economically Developing Country
  Hansen, O., Wayland, 1995
  
  
• Our Asian Neighbours
  Hatherley, S., Macmillan, 1996
  
  
• Learn bout Technology series: Inventions that Have Changed the World
  Howes, J., Macmillan, 1997
  
  
• Brazil - Economically Developing Country
  Lewington, A., Wayland, 1995
  
  
• Ways of Life series: Middle Eastern, Cultures European Cultures, Eastern Cultures
  McClish, B., Macmillan, 1995
  
  
• Europe - Continents
  McLeish, E., Wayland, 1995
  
  
• Next Stop series: Australia, France, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Russia, South Korea, Spain
  Martin F., Heinemann, 1998
  
  
• Fishing for Islands :Traditional Boats and Seafarers of the Pacific
  Nicholson, J., Allen & Unwin, 1999
  
  
• Macmillan Australia Global Atlas
  Parker, B., Macmillan, 1997 (lower secondary resource)
  
  
• Africa - Continents
  Regan, C., Wayland, 1996
  
  
• Making the News
  Shelton, F., Rigby English Upper Primary C, Rigby Heinemann, 1997
  
  
• The Reader's Digest Children's Atlas of the World
  Sale, C., (ed), Reader's Digest, 1998
  
  
• Macmillan Countries (series)
  Stutchbury, J. & Thomas, R., Macmillan, 1994-95
  
  
• Egypt - Economically Developing Country
  Tenquist, A., Wayland, 1995
  
  
• Fighting for Survival series:
  The Ikhos of Laos, The Dani of Irian Jaya, Trobund of Papua New Guinea, The Bhil of India, The Hmong of Vietnam, The Ngaayatjarra of the Gibson Desert, The Anangu of Uluru-Katatjuta
  Thompson, L., Heinemann Library, 1998/9
  
  
• Families of the World : East Asia, S.E. Asia and the Pacific
  Tremblay, H., AUSAID, 1995
  
  
• Too Many Captain Cooks
  Tucker, A., Omnibus Books, 1994
  
  
• A family in Bosnia
  Waterlow, J., Wayland, 1997
  
  
• Philip's Environment Atlas
  Wright, D., Macmillan, 1998
  
  
• Philip's Children's Atlas
  Wright, D. & J., Macmillan, 1998
  
  

Videos, CD-ROMs and Web Sites

• Child Wise
  Caritas Australia & AusAID, 1996 (21 minute video)
  
  
• Rewind: Getting Around
  Film Australia, 1997 (5 minute video)
  
  
• Sherpa's of Nepal
  Classroom Video, 1998 (20 min, Years 6-12)
  
  
• Jing: A Chinese Girl
  Educational Media Australia (video)
  
  
• Water Works
  Caritas Australia & AusAID, 1995 (18 minute video)
  
  
• World Population Issues
  Classroom Video, 1998 (20 min, Years 6-12)
  
  
• World Vision
  World vision has produced a number of kits, texts and videos that relate to the Environment, Family Life , Housing, Rights and Responsibilities and Technology of people around the world. See there website for current publications.
  http://www.wvi.org



• Asia Education Foundation
  The site contains free downloadable lesson plans relating to the Access Asia texts
  http://www.curriculum.edu.au/accessasia/index.htm

Kits

• Plan to Make a Difference, Teacher's Kit, West Africa
  Plan International, Course Material on Developing Nations, SOSE, Years 5-6, 1996