Many schools include Remembrance Day in their yearly teaching calendar. The Australian War Memorial has a range of resources available for schools when studying this significant day and other History related topics.

Memorial boxes
You might consider borrowing a memory box. This wonderful classroom resource can be delivered to your school, containing artefacts, photographs, case studies, uniforms, oral histories, teacher’s notes and more.

Diary of an ANZAC: a Gallipoli perspective
The story of Herbert Vincent Reynolds No. 622 First Field Ambulance, First AIF. Diary entries written by Herbert upon his arrival in Alexandria in 1915 are posted on the Memorial’s blog. They cover Herbert’s experience in the lead up and duration of the Gallipoli campaign.

Australian military nursing
Learn more about Australian military nursing from the 19^th century until today. These resources include research, interpretation and creative activities, which can be used online, or printed and used in the classroom.

Tobruk diaries
This blog features diary entries of two men who were there: Chaplain Owen Thomas Cosgriff and Warrant Officer Class II Arthur Francis Bryant, as well as extracts from the letters of Captain Edmund Crawford Lecky MBE. Uploaded each day are diary entries and extracts from letters written on that day's date 72 years ago, in 1941.

Some sample activities:

Make a poppy
Find out more about poppies, the widely accepted flower of remembrance. This includes a craft activity on how to make your own poppy.

Make hard tack
Have you ever thought how the Australians at Gallipoli could be supplied with food – many thousands of men – at short notice with no refrigeration? This is an activity with a recipe for cooking hard tack.

Research a soldier
Research a soldier using the Memorial's online resources.

Learn soldier's slang
Soldier's slang is an activity designed to show the unique language soldiers used at Gallipoli.

For more information, contact:
Dr Jennifer Lawless
Inspector, History
jennifer.lawless@bos.nsw.edu.au
(02) 9367 8151