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History · Year 9 · Ready-made course
Four Year 9 History lessons: why the war began and why Australians enlisted, where and how they fought at Gallipoli and on the Western Front, how the war changed life on the home front, and how it has been remembered through the Anzac legend.
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Across 4 lessons: 4 interactive activities, 4 knowledge checks, 4 practice tasks, 4 reflections and 1 data table, using 2 different TEU interactives. Every lesson opens with a real question or scenario, states its learning intention, lists its learning outcomes and checks understanding with instant feedback.
In June 1914 two shots were fired in Sarajevo. Within weeks most of Europe was at war, and Australia, on the other side of the world, had joined in. Why?
Students learn to explain the causes of World War I and why so many Australians enlisted to fight.
1 interactive activity · 1 knowledge check · 1 practice task · 1 reflection
Many Australians first sailed to war from Albany, on King George Sound, in November 1914. Over the next four years they fought in Turkey, Europe and the Middle East, in very different kinds of warfare.
Students learn to describe where Australians fought in World War I and the types of warfare they experienced.
1 interactive activity · 1 knowledge check · 1 practice task · 1 reflection · 1 data table
The war was fought overseas, but it changed life in Australia: what people read, the work they did, how they voted and how they treated one another.
Students learn to explain how World War I affected life in Australia, using propaganda, women's roles, conscription and returned soldiers as examples.
1 interactive activity · 1 knowledge check · 1 practice task · 1 reflection
Every 25 April, Australians gather at dawn. What are we remembering, and is the story we tell the whole story?
Students learn to describe how World War I is commemorated and to evaluate different views of the Anzac legend.
1 interactive activity · 1 knowledge check · 1 practice task · 1 reflection
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