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Beyond The Fire  
URL:http://www.itvs.org/beyondthefire/
Category:Refugees  Peace building  Values Learning Quests 

Beyond The Fire, introduces the real life stories of 15 teenagers, now living in the U.S., who have survived war in seven war zones. These stories tell of loss, hope, fear, strength and despair and resilience. Aimed at a teen audience, this highly interactive site is designed with educators in mind. The site creates an innovative forum on issues of war, geography, history and human rights. By combining lesson plans with online learning and a community forum, the site sparks dialogue that can take place within the classroom and beyond. Wars include: Afghanistan, Iraq, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Bosnia and Kosovo.

Champions of Justice - A Human Rights WebQuest  
URL:http://www.webquestdirect.com.au/championsofjustice/
Category:Values Learning Quests  Australian Studies Learning Quests  Society & Environment Learning Quests  Global Education Learning Quests  Civics and Citizenship 

This Australian webquest aims at developing an awareness in students about the Rights of the Child, why they need addressing and what they can do to help. Students are provoked into considering where they stand on social issues and forming opinions about what they believe and the values underlying their beliefs. This web quest is designed for students in the Middle School.

Illuminate Your Teaching  
URL:http://www.twb.catholic.edu.au/reled/illuminate_your_teaching.htm
Category:Values Learning Quests  Religious Education 

This page links to multimedia resources for use in Catholic Religious Education classes. There are two learning objects: Mary McKillop, and Refugees (for use in Values Education). There are also two powerpoint presentations: Peace/Justice and Children.

Immortality Webquest  
URL:http://asterix.ednet.lsu.edu/~edtech/webquest/webquest.html
Category:Cross Curriculum Learning Quests  Values Learning Quests 

This WebQuest challenges students to investigate the search for immortality, taking them from the search for the Holy Grail, to the Fountain of Youth, to pyramids, to cryogenic freezing and cloning. By making their own immortality time capsule, students analyse what immortality actually is and how different people perceive it.

My Business Rules WebQuest  
URL:http://www.webquestdirect.com.au/aes/
Category:Career Education  Society and Environment teaching units  Values Learning Quests 

This is an Enterprise Education WebQuest for students in Years 7 - 8 although it could be adapted for students in Years 9 - 10. Students are asked to set up their own business with a choice of five different products - jigsaws, audio book, a cookbook, shopping bags and a video production business. The Aboriginal Employment Strategy in Moree, NSW has commissioned this WebQuest to aid indigenous students into the workforce.

Prophets - Reminders of our Moral Conscience in the Bible and Today - A Webquest  
URL:http://www.webquestdirect.com.au/prophets/index.htm
Category:Values Learning Quests 

This webquest was designed for students in Year 6 in the Maitland-Newcastle Diocese [Catholic Schools Office] studying the Prophets in Stage 3 New South Wales (NSW) Australia. This webquest challenges students to investigate what is a message, what is a prophet, Hebrew Scriptures or Old Testament Prophets - Isaiah, Malachi, Zechariah, Jeremiah, Haggai, Ezekiel, Zephaniah, Daniel, Habakkuk, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Lamentations, Nahum, Baruch and to investigate whether there have been prophets in Australia in our history or today. Students are to research the lives of Sr. Elizabeth Kenny, John Laws, Sheila Cassidy, Ian Kiernan, Dr. Faith Bandler, Allan Jones, Eddie Mabo, Peter Garrett, Richard Pratt, Dawn Casey, Fr. Chris Riley, Dame Roma Mitchell, Tim Costello, Gough Whitlam, Michael Leunig, Edith Cowan, Neville Bonner, Dr. Helen Caldicott, Mary MacKillop, Julian Tenison Woods, Fred Hollows, Dame Enid Lyons, Lowjita (Lois) O'Donoghue, Sir William Deane, Professor Fiona Stanley, John Flynn, Eva Burrows and Sir Edward

Try a WebQuest  
URL:http://www.twb.catholic.edu.au/reled/try_a_webquest.htm
Category:Values Learning Quests 

This site lists a number of Religious Education and values webquests developed for use with Catholic education students. They include Images of Jesus, Super Citizen, The Pope Needs You!, Social Activist, and Building a Better World.

WebQuest Direct - Directory of Reviewed WebQuests  
URL:http://www.webquestdirect.com.au/
Category:Directories of Learning Quests  ICT & Pedagogy  Values Learning Quests 

Webquest Direct is a subscription based web site that contains a directory of web quests. All web quests are reviewed by a team of teachers and given an educational rating and description. Teachers are able to search for a web quest by topic, level, Year, Subject - Key Learning Area and country of Origin. The site contains free materials that relate to the nature of web quests and how to use them in the classroom.

WebQuest on the Old Testament  
URL:http://www.webquestdirect.com.au/prophets/
Category:Values Learning Quests  Religious Education 

A WebQuest aimed at assisting students to understand something of the background about the Old Testament books and to then do some further investigation of an Event, Festival, Place or Person from these books.