Global+health+education+for+secondary+schools

[] By Lillian Green
 * Millennium Development Goals - Cyber School Bus**
 * Online booklet, has videos, images, as well as reports for the MDGs
 * Useful for VCE unit 4
 * This page addresses the key skills component of HHD unit 4 outcome 1:
 * describe the eight UN’s Millennium Development Goals, their purpose and reasons why they are important;
 * evaluate the progress towards the Millennium Development Goals;
 * Can use it as a base for information, or for revision. There are videos for the lower literacy students/
 * It’s a good resource but it gives all of the answers, I would suggest it as a revision task to read over rather than sending students there first off - look for more meaningful ways of learning this.
 * It’s a good resource but it gives all of the answers, I would suggest it as a revision task to read over rather than sending students there first off - look for more meaningful ways of learning this.

**//Millennium Development Goals//**  **//(MDO's)//** @http://www.brac.net/beyond-boundaries/content/background

This website is useful for VCE unit 4, outcome 1. It covers each of the eight MDO's and give activities for each one for the classroom. It also includes quizzes for each MDO. A useful resource to use in the classroom as a whole, or for students to access individually.

By Donna White

**//Global Education//**  **//By Stephanie O'Bree//**

**//URL: http://www.globaleducation.edu.au/1842.html//**

This website holds a variety of resources that are free for you to download, print or adapt for your own classroom. This site is fantastic as it covers some of the controversial and harder to relate to topics for students. It also gives you an idea of what level these lessons should be taught at. The site allows you to filter the lessons by year level, issue, country or learning area, which is helpful for teachers as it make their searching a lot easier.

It also has templates for different styles of charts and tables that can be used in a variety of Health related topics. The site also has videos that can be used, these I believe would be great to use at the beginning of a new topic in order to garner students interest and help them to start asking questions and getting involved.

The plans are so in depth that they actually have the different parts of the lesson written down and different types of exploring such as writing, drawing, role play and collecting. This is useful as a teacher because it is a resource that we can take straight into the classroom. I recommend looking at this resource when introducing any global issues to your classroom as it has a great range of fantastic resources that you could use or adapt for your classroom.

__R .FINDLAY....__

**A GLOBAL HEALTH EDUCATION/RESOURCE**

**WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION (WHO)**
About: The World Health organization is an agency made up of 61 countries in the United Nations and specializes in international public health. The WHO originated in Switzerland and has been established for over 60 years. WHO is responsible for the //[|World Health Report]//, a leading international publication on health, the worldwide World Health Survey, and __ [|World Health Day] __. Its current priorities include [|communicable diseases], in particular, HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis; the mitigation of the effects of non-communicable diseases; sexual and reproductive health, development, and ageing; nutrition, food security and healthy eating; substance abuse; and drive the development of reporting, publications, and networking. It is responsible for providing leadership on global health matters, shaping the health research agenda, setting norms and standards, articulating evidence-based policy options, providing technical support to countries and monitoring and assessing health trends. Since the WHO is based out of Europe, here in Australia and in our schools, its resources and findings are viewed via the web. Taken from: [] The WHO would be most beneficial as a resource to Secondary students as its focus is on statistics across the nations, data, publications, research projects and preempting health outcomes. Such topics are most relative to elder students as it is in the later years of health study that the global health topics are covered. The WHO has a budget which is reviewed annually. The Proposed program budget for 2012–2013 is a transitional budget that responds to both the new reality of financial austerity and a series of reforms being undertaken to improve the overall performance of WHO. These reforms include an improved results-based management and accountability framework and a more realistic and flexible funding model. However, to view its information, resources and reports is free from the website. Some of the WHO’s declarations are seen as somewhat controversial (?Negative). Some of these include: Condom promotion/religion/AIDS, Intermittent preventative therapies, Influenza pandemic topics and International atomic energy agency studies. The websire includes WHO __projects, initiatives, activities, information products, and contacts, organized by health and development topics.__

For example: Condoms, Asthma, Road traffic accidents, water, disease epidemics, mental health, chonic disease and STDs to name a few.

(All info gathered from the website provided above) Feel free to elaborate guys....

@http://www.theglobaleducationproject.org/earth/index.php

By Lorraine Beriman

//Earth- A graphic look at the state of the world// is a resource full of visual maps, factual data, links, and current global news.

The data includes: global Ecology, Fresh Water, Human conditions, Energy Supply, Food and Soil, Fishing and Aquaculture, Development and Debt, Wealth, Toxic Pollution, Weapons, and Biotechnology.

You can click on the links to get a great deal of further information in many different Global areas. The news offers various worldwide changes and you can easily access these by clicking on the stories you would like.

There is also a quiz that you can do to test your knowledge! Looks like I need to improve on my Global knowledge there!!