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- Celebrating 100 Years of Audio Listen to the Declaration of war by British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and Australian Prime Minister Robert Menzies. 1939.
Teacher resource materials
Since 2001 all Australian schools have been provided with educational materials relating to Australia's wartime history.
- Operation Click The resource book is a teachers’ guide which contains a range of teaching and learning activities aimed at upper primary, lower secondary and middle secondary school students throughout Australia. The activities are complemented by background historical information, a teaching context and purpose, key terms and an ICT skills check list.
You can access the Operation Click online version here: Operation Click
Worksheets The worksheets section of this site contains 2 worksheets in pdf for the Second World War under the title: Topic 1 - Into battle: Australia goes to war
Work sheet 1C: Australia's Changing Relationships with Great Britain and America
Work sheet 1D: Background to New Guinea 1942-43
Work sheet 1E: Fighting conditions
Work sheet 1F: Fighting conditions
Topic 2 - Impressions of war: Telling the story
Source sheet 2D: Impressions of World War II - Telling the Story
Source sheet 2E: Impressions of World War II - Activity Table
- Time to Remember: Understanding Australia's experiences of War and Peacekeeping - Designed for lower to middle primary students. Contains 16 pictures and teacher guide.
You can access the Time to Remember online version here: Time to remember
Of special interest in this resource for World War 2 (1935 - 1945) are pages 21 - 31:
6. Australian ship HMAS Perth under fire: Painting, Sundra Strait, Netherlands East India (Indonesia), 1942
7. Battling rough country in New Guinea: Photograph, New Guindea, 1943
8. When war came to Australia, Photograph, Darwin, Australia, 1942
9. Recruiting women volunteers in World War II: Poster, Australia, c. 1942
10. Women served in World War II in many ways: Photographs, Australia and Papua, 1942-1944
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