The Curriculum Sharing Project was designed to provide a platform for teachers to share with their peers curriculum units they have written and taught in the classroom on Australia’s wartime and peacekeeping history. The History Teachers’ Association of Australia administered the project and selected curriculum units aligned to the Australian Curriculum: History and/or State and Territory curricula. Successful units have been uploaded on the Anzac Portal as a resource for teachers during the Anzac Centenary period 2014-2018 and beyond.

Disclaimer

Curriculum units on the Anzac Portal are a representative sample of what is being used to teach Australia’s wartime experience and their intended use is for education purposes only. Teachers are advised to use due care and diligence according to their personal and school philosophies when using sources from any curriculum unit that may include content that could prove unduly distressing to students.

Anzac Day for Young Australians in Year 3

Heather Lewis

Year 3 | Australian Curriculum

Australia and the Pacific War 1941–1945

Jennifer Fantinel

Para Hills High School, SA

Year 10 | Australian Curriculum

Australia and the Second World War

Ben Lawless

Aitken College, Victoria

Year 10 | Australian Curriculum

Australia's under-18s during World War I

Kerry Moyst

Year 6 | Australian Curriculum| NSW Curriculum

Australian Prisoners of War in the Second World War

Nicole Mansfield

Sydney Church of England Grammar School (Shore), North Sydney, Australia

Year 10 | Australian Curriculum

Australians at War

Kay Carroll

Australian Catholic University, NSW

Year 9 | NSW Curriculum

Australians at War (WWI & WWII)

Kate Cameron

Year 9 | Australian Curriculum| NSW Curriculum

Australians at War: World War Two

Nicole Mansfield

Shore School, NSW

Year 9 | Australian Curriculum| NSW Curriculum

  • Australians at War: World War Two
    PDF icon pdf (1.97 MB)
  • Resource 3—Germany Advances—The fall of Poland, the Low Countries and France
    Office presentation icon ppt (1.79 MB)
  • Resource 13—The Holocaust—The Final Solution
    File pptx (2.29 MB)
  • Resource 14—After the Bomb
    File pptx (1.49 MB)
  • Resource 15—Experiences of Australian Prisoner's of the Japanese
    File pptx (2.85 MB)

Australians in Vietnam

Sally Mangan

Cardijn College, SA

Year 10 | Australian Curriculum

Counting the Cost of Kokoda

Bradley Wood

Tasmania

Year 10 | Australian Curriculum

Depth Study: World War One 1914–18. Year 9

Richard Spence & Jane Nicholson

Perth Modern School, WA

Year 9 | Australian Curriculum

Do Statues Speak?: Investigating the continuity and change in beliefs that have influenced the Australian way of life through local war memorials

Richard Leo

Christian Heritage College, Carindale QLD

Year 10 | Australian Curriculum

  • Do Statues Speak?: Investigating the continuity and change in beliefs that have influenced the Australian way of life through local war memorials
    PDF icon pdf (2.41 MB)

First World War—Year 9 History/Humanities

Ben Lawless

Aitken College

Year 9 | Australian Curriculum| VIC Curriculum (AusVELS)

  • First World War
    File DOCX (119.43 KB)
  • First World War Memorial Assignment
    File docx (19.53 KB)
  • First World War Pop Quizzes.docx
    File docx (17.19 KB)

In Their Footsteps: Recording the histories of military personnel from the Korean and Vietnam Wars, Afghanistan, other conflicts and/or peacekeeping missions for Year 10 students

Nicole Scott

Alkira Secondary College, VIC

Year 10 | Australian Curriculum| VIC Curriculum (AusVELS)

  • In Their Footsteps: Recording the histories of military personnel from the Korean and Vietnam Wars, Afghanistan, other conflicts and/or peacekeeping missions for Year 10 students
    PDF icon pdf (798.14 KB)

Making of the Modern World: World War I

Marcus Parker

St Joseph’s College, Mildura, VIC

Year 9| Year 10 | Australian Curriculum

The Great War: Conflict, Chaos and Courage

Katrina Makings

Bray Park State High School, QLD

Year 9 | Australian Curriculum

  • The Great War: Conflict, Chaos and Courage
    PDF icon pdf (2.72 MB)
  • Resource 6—Causes of World War I
    Office presentation icon ppt (1.76 MB)
  • Resource 10—Typical Soldier
    Office presentation icon ppt (898 KB)
  • Resource 12—The Schiefflen Plan
    Office presentation icon ppt (4.26 MB)
  • Resource 13—Gallipoli
    Office presentation icon ppt (1.46 MB)
  • Resource 17—Western front
    Office presentation icon ppt (3.55 MB)

The Human Face of War: The First World War and Beyond

Ann Parry

Year 6 | Australian Curriculum

The Korean War

Vanessa Pratt

Strathmore Secondary College, Victoria

Year 10 | Australian Curriculum

The Legend of the Anzac Spirit

Cheryl Fraser & Mary Mullins

Marymount College, QLD

Year 9 | Australian Curriculum

The Post-War World: A Video Game, Year 10 History

Olivia Kinnear

RMIT

Year 10 | Australian Curriculum| VIC Curriculum (AusVELS)

The Significance of WW1

Stephanie Lentz

Masters of Teaching, University of New South Wales

Year 9 | Australian Curriculum

The Vietnam War and Australia

Ashley Pratt

Gilson College, Victoria

Year 10 | Australian Curriculum

VC or No VC: That is the Question

Dr Louise Zarmati

Tasmania

Year 10 | Australian Curriculum

What was the significance of World War I?

Catherine Baron

Kelmscott Senior High School, WA

Year 9 | Australian Curriculum

Who is that soldier in the carpark?

Jane Batham

Our Lady of the Rosary School, Kenmore QLD

Year 2| Year 3 | Australian Curriculum

World War 1

Paul Baker

St Teresa’s Catholic College, Noosaville QLD

Year 9 | Australian Curriculum

World War I: Year 9

Sarah Day

Esperance Senior High School, WA

Year 9 | Australian Curriculum

World War One

Louise Bannister

La Trobe

Year 9 | Australian Curriculum

WWI and Australia on the Western Front

Rachel Towns

St John's Regional Catholic College, Dandenong VIC

Year 9 | Australian Curriculum

WWII: Shaping the Modern World

Chloe Tayler, Anna Fee & Tom Bleby

University of Melbourne

Year 10 | Australian Curriculum

Year 3 History—Fortifying North Queensland

Melanie Menzies & Shantae Ryle

St Mary’s School, Bowen QLD

Year 3 | Australian Curriculum