HSC Websites

Source: Sydney Morning Herald June 17-18th, 2006

Seamus Byrne rounded up the NSW Department of Education and Training’s recommended  HSC study sites.

We hope they can help you too...

Music

Legal Studies

Teoria - Music Theory Web
www.teoria.com

Like a personal online tutor, Teoria offers exercises and tutorials to hone your theory as well as your ear for music. Scales and drills are here too, presented in easy-to-use Flash Formats.

Guide to Law Online: Australia
www.loc.gov/law/guide/australia.html

This is a US Library of Congress site but it offers a great list of links to Australian law resources online. Most pertinent are the links to many legal guides available. A very useful starting point for any legal studies research.

English

Converse
aspirations.english.cam.ac.uk/convers e/alevel/poetry.acds

Poetry, Chaucer, First World War or Shakespeare - this website offers critical essays to help you think beyond the words on the page. Look to the A-level section for the most relevant content.

Sacred Sites
www.sacredsites.com

Explore one man’s extended pilgrimage to the consructed sacred sites of the world. You’ll find histories, photographs and the writer’s personal experiences at each site. A great supplementary study to The Journey in English Stage 6.

Geography

AusAID
www.ausaid.gov.au

Our overseas aid organisation offers an excellent site here, detailing the issues being addressed in countries around the globe. The Aid Themes section is useful for looking into widespread issues and how they are being handled.

The Australia Institute
www.tai.org.au

Head into the Newsletter section to read a collection of discussions and essays on many geography-relevant subjects such as “Who Drives 4WDs?”. You can even search this site to see if they have something of particular interest.

Modern History

Languages

World War 1 Document Archive
www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi

Primary resources are hard to come by, so this archive of official documents, memoirs and photos is invaluable. It may take a little sifting, but there is gold in here for any research project.

BBC Languages
www.bbc.co.uk/languages

Whether it’s Spanish, Italian, French or German, the BBC languages site offers online courses for testing your language skills. Beginner and intermediate help is here, with tests to guage your level, and advice on improving your skills.

Mathematics

Explore Learning
explorelearning.com

A slick site filled with interactive activities to polish your maths skills - algebra, geometry or probability functions you want to work on, they’re all played out in easy-to-understand interactions.

Quickmath
www.quickmath.com

A very smart site that lets you input functions and equations to have them solved, includes calculus, matrices, algebra & more. Working is often offered, and random functions can be generated to see many solutions as part of developing your understanding.

Business Studies

PDHPE

Austrade
www.austrade.gov.au

The online home of our trade commission offers a number of interesting guides to businesses on export markets. Head to the student centre for discussion papers, activity sheets and learning resource downloads. There is even an export plan competition to test your mettle.

NSW Health
www.health.nsw.gov.au

Comprehensive coverage of the health issues facing Australians today. You will find statistics, reports an A-Z of helth topics, and lists of popular problems affecting different age groups. Use the site map for the best route to finding what you want.

Science

Uniserve Stage 6 Science
science.uniserve.edu.au/school/curric /stage6

All the major courses are covered: Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Earth & Environmental Science and Senior Science. Study materials are organised by specific course and option units, with workshops and past papers on offer. Another indispensable starting point.

Science online site
www.lmpc.edu.au

Another site tailored to the HSC with excellent coverage of the sciences, including lots of resources and advice on how to tackle topics. Find the course or option you want to study and links to many more resources will be revealed.

Design & Technology

Food Technology

TechnologyStudent.com
www.technologystudent.com

Get past the front page and you’ll find workshops and advice on both detailed subject matter and overarching issues of design project management.

EUFIC Food Students
www.foodstudents.com/englisch/foods tudents.html

Here you’ll find encyclopedic coverage of food technology, as well as an online quiz to test your knowledge. Experts are also available to answer your questions via email. There are links to even more online food resources.

V.E.T

Work Worlds
workworlds.ryde.tafensw.edu.au

Students studying any tourism - or hospitality-related industries will find useful organisational charts and career pathways to examine here.. Industry overviews and glossaries appear too, along with photos of work spaces and further links.

Zoom: Manufacturing
www.zoom.aigroup.asn.au

A huge range of career areas to examine in the manufacturing engineering area here, with many categories and sub-categories showiing details of each and the qualifications to get there.

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