Anzacs

Stage 3

History

Summary

Duration

English: Speaking and Listening tasks, drama/roleplay, reading/writing/responding/viewing

Sample term
10 weeks
Detail: 3 lessons per week

Unit overview

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Students will recognise the viewpoints of men, women and Aboriginal people about wars in
Australia's history. They will respond to the emotions generated by excursions and visual/digital
imagery. Students will describe the environment of the different countries where war has taken
place and consider the impact of these environments on the men at war.

Centenary of Anzacs: 100 years 1915 - 2015

Outcomes

Assessment overview

History K-10
HT3-1 describes and explains the significance of people, groups, places and events to the

Describing, personal recounting, historical recounting, explaining and persuading through

s[eaking tasks and reading and writing tasks.

development of Australia

HT3-2 describes and explains different experiences of people living in Australia over time

HT3-5 applies a variety of skills of historical inquiry and communication

HT3-3 identifies change and continuity and describes the causes and effects of change on
Australian society

Content

Teaching, learning and assessment

Stage 3 - Australia as a Nation

How did Australian society change throughout the
twentieth century?
What contribution have significant individuals and
groups made to the development of Australian society?
The historical concepts and skills to be taught throughout
Stage 3 are listed in the Overview of Teaching and Learning.
identify the influences of Britain and the USA on
Australian democracy
explain how Australian society has changed throughout
the twentieth century for these groups
The contribution of individuals and groups, including
Aboriginal people and/or Torres Strait Islanders and migrants,
to the development of Australian society, for example in areas
such as the economy, education, sciences, the arts, sport
(ACHHK116)
using a range of sources, research and describe the
contribution of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander

Week 4:
Students complete KWL worksheet
Discuss what students know about ANZACS
Students view video/images of ANZACS and in pairs write
down words which describe the ANZACS and words they may
not understand. Show video/images 2 times
Share findings
Role play what these words may depict
Read simple imaginative stories to assist in comprehension of
courage/mateship/honour/respect/sacrifice
Make a word wall with vocabulary depicting the
ANZACS relating images

Resources
Scootle resources
Anzacs and Gallipoli TFL-ID R10695
http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/resolve/view/R10695
ANZAC poster TFL-ID R1736
http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/resolve/view/R1736
Family walking to Anzac ceremony at Shrine of
Remembrance, Melbourne, 1935 or 1936 TFL-ID M002378
http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/resolve/view/M002378
The going down of the sun TFL-ID M017718
http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/resolve/view/M017718
'A hero of Dardanelles', 1915 - asset 1 TFL-ID R1553
http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/resolve/view/R1553

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Content

Teaching, learning and assessment

Resources

peoples and other groups to Australian society

Simpson with his donkey at Gallipoli, 1915 - asset 1 TFLID R2993
http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/resolve/view/R2993
Difficult memories: reflecting on war TFL-ID M017719
http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/resolve/view/M017719
Nation: investigating images of the nation TFL-ID
M006891
http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/resolve/view/M006891
Gundagai welcomes its soldiers home in 1920 TFL-ID
R2421
http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/resolve/view/R2421
Stage 3 - The Australian Colonies
identify events that have shaped Australia's identity and
discuss why they were significant

Week 5:
Look at images from World War 1: Calender
( photos)
Read sentence strips
Discuss language eg ammunition, wounded, heroes,
abandoned etc
Find key words
In pairs read and match descriptions of war-related events
to photo images
Discuss as a group
Paste
Sequence as a timeline

Commemorative calender
Sentence strips
scissors/glue
Videos/images

Scootle resources
Gallipoli diary, 1915 TFL-ID R2869
http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/resolve/view/R2869
Sites2See: Gallipoli TFL-ID M016126
http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/resolve/view/M016126
'A hero of Dardanelles', 1915 - asset 2 TFL-ID R1570
http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/resolve/view/R1570
We remember - unit of work TFL-ID M009558
http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/resolve/view/M009558
With the Dardanelles Expedition: Heroes of Gallipoli clip 4 TFL-ID R9138
http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/resolve/view/R9138
Simpson with his donkey at Gallipoli, 1915 - asset 2 TFLID R3029
http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/resolve/view/R3029
Australian Light Horse troopers TFL-ID R1897

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Content

Teaching, learning and assessment

Resources
http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/resolve/view/R1897

Stage 3 - The Australian Colonies

use a range of sources to investigate the role of a
particular man, woman or group and the contributions
each made to the shaping of the colony

Week 6:
Review past lessons and vocabulary: use some of these words
for the cline
Create a cline of conflict nouns brainstormed by the group :
insult, brawl, disagreement, battle
Role-play some of these
Watch video about WW1
Build a matrix to record information about the significant
events in Australia's experience at war
Complete cloze related to matrix

Matrix
Cloze passage
paper/pencils

Scootle resources
Waiting to welcome their loved ones home, 1919 TFL-ID
R8592
http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/resolve/view/R8592
Studio portrait of Private Alf Lovett with his wife and
sons, 1915 TFL-ID R8604
http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/resolve/view/R8604
Cartoons of the Moment - The War Zoo, c1915 TFL-ID
R9015
http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/resolve/view/R9015
William Roberts and family evicted into the street,
1934 TFL-ID R11176
http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/resolve/view/R11176
First World War diary - Corporal S W Siddeley, 21 Oct
1914 - 15 Jan 1915 TFL-ID M002804
http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/resolve/view/M002804
'Charles Ulm with his mother and father', 1914 TFL-ID
R3344
http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/resolve/view/R3344
'Honour the Brave' certificate, J Ah Yee, 1918 TFL-ID
R3908
http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/resolve/view/R3908
Diggers, 1931: 'Hinky pinky parlay-voo' TFL-ID R7365
http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/resolve/view/R7365

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Evaluation
Formative assessment: student engagement, participation, contributions,. oral language skills
in completing tasks.

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