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Australian Human Rights Commission: Face the Facts
The website for the Australian Human Rights Commission includes significant speeches, media releases, policy, and publications. The Commission regularly publishes Face the Facts, which contains accurate and accessible information relating to Indigenous peoples, migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers. The website provides useful teacher resources, including background readings, activities, and worksheets to support this information.
International Reading Association, and the National Council of Teachers of English: Readwritethink
Readwritethink is a website dedicated to providing free resources to support K–12 teachers’ literacy programs. These include interactives such as the persuasion map, which assists students to plan expository texts, worksheets such as the checklist for student self-evaluation, and lesson plans that cover both literary and factual texts from a range of media. Although the site is oriented towards teachers working in the USA, its resources are readily adaptable to other settings.
GetUp! Action for Australia
GetUp! is a community-based advocacy organisation that encourages individuals to become involved in issues of current concern. It provides a model for examining how social and political activism can operate and the forms of texts through which this occurs. The website also provides background information in a range of media suitable for developing students’ field knowledge on current issues, such as refugees and asylum seekers, marriage equality, climate action, and coal seam gas.
NSW Department of Education and Training: Racism No Way: Anti-racism Education for Australian Schools
The Racism No Way website has been developed to support anti-racism education. It provides accurate information regarding diversity, rights, and responsibilities to teachers and students as well as a large number of ongoing activities and good-quality resources.
Studiobinder
www.studiobinder.com/blog/ethos-pathos-logos
A blog that discusses the role of ethos, pathos and logos in multimodal advertising
Sustainable Schools NSW
www.sustainableschoolsnsw.org.au/teach/climate-change
A great website abounding with resources and activities around issues of sustainability such as biodiversity, climate change, transport, waste and water.