Extension resources
The extension category includes useful resources containing detailed content that may require more advanced literacy skills. These resources could be used for independent research tasks and extension activities or be modified to meet your teaching needs.
Stories of Service - our website section
Century of Service book series
Snapshots: Australians in War and Conflict book
Australian women in war teaching resource
Forever yours: Stories of wartime love and friendship book
We'll Meet Again workbook
Chinese Anzacs book
Australian Prisoners of War workbook
Sandakan 1942-1945 book
Stolen years: Australian prisoners of war book
Veterans' Stories Vietnam book
Vietnam: our war - our peace book
Keeping the peace: Investigating Australia's contribution to peacekeeping workbook
World Wide Effort: Australia's Peacekeepers book
Reflections: Capturing Veterans' Stories book
About our resources
Our veteran experiences free educational resources for Australian schools include:
- classroom activities and lessons
- interactive online activities
- printable worksheets to consolidate learning
- source analysis for primary and secondary sources
- short films and videos
- workbooks and books.
Education specialists and qualified historians design our resources so they:
- are historically accurate
- build knowledge, understanding and skills
- engage your students.
Primary and secondary resources have classroom-ready content. Adapt them to cover topics broadly or in detail.
Veteran experiences' topics include:
- recollections of daily life in service
- First Nations Australians' stories of service.
To bring history to life, we have included oral histories that capture veterans' stories and experiences in the following educational series.
Our In Their Own Words series is a collection of filmed interviews and student activities. Popular activities in the series include:
- Women in the Second World War: In Their Own Words
- Prisoners of war: In Their Own Words
- Kokoda: In Their Own Words
- Reflections on enlistment in World War II: In Their Own Words
- Tobruk: In Their Own Words
- Australian experiences in the Vietnam War: In Their Own Words
- Fall of Singapore: In Their Own Words
- Enlistment: In Their Own Words
- Australia Under Attack: In Their Own Words
- Commemorating Anzac Day: In Their Own Words
- National Service – Vietnam: In Their Own Words.
The Stories of Service short film series shares the unique stories of service people, including resistance and intelligence operatives, military leaders, nurses and other medical personnel, prisoners of war, war correspondents and photographers. Popular videos in the series include:
- Nancy Wake: Stories of Service
- Jim Martin: Stories of Service
- Weary Dunlop: Stories of Service
- Rachel Pratt: Stories of Service
- Reginald Saunders: Stories of Service
- Thomas Henry 'Buddy' Lea: Stories of Service
- The Fab Four Nurses: Stories of Service
Our Century of Service book series consists of 14 books that honour the service and sacrifice of Australian service people. These commemorative publications contain unique stories of the qualities revealed by Australians in service. Based on the stained-glass windows in the Hall of Memory at the Australian War Memorial, popular books include:
- Ancestry: Stories of multicultural Anzacs
- Comradeship: Stories of friendship and recreation in wartime
- Devotion: Stories of Australia's wartime nurses
- Endurance: Stories of Australians in wartime captivity
- Patriotism: Stories from the Australian home front during the Second World War.
Get in touch
To ask about our teaching resources or request a copy of any of our free printed books, contact us.