Books & Learning Packs

The individual book from the In Search of … series.

ISBN 0 9581625 6 5

This resource aligns with the Australian Curriculum : History for Year 9.

It is part of a range of communication forms that can be used and explored at other year levels as well.

A Teaching and Learning pack for Primary Schools Contents: 36 individual photographic images of WW1 (A4 mounted on cardboard) in six categories and 36 teachers' resource cards (A5 mounted on cardboard)- one for each image card. (Suggestions on how to use the pack can be found on the back of each of these cards).

Packaged in a purpose designed satchel-style box.

ISBN 0 9757123 6 5

Author-Tracey Linnane;

Published 2006.

Under the categories Arrival and living conditions; Transport and supplies; Medical aid;
Communications; Leisure and entertainment; and Effects of war, teachers are offered a wide variety of classroom activities using the photographs as the stimuli.
Presented in a specially designed satchel style box.

WILL BE AVAILABLE NOVEMBER 2013

BLURB ABOUT THE BOOK

Jack and Abi are mates. However, when Jack finds that Abi’s forbears fought the ANZACs at Gallipoli, he becomes unsure about continuing their relationship. Only through meeting relatives on both sides and exploring accounts of the conflict is this contemporary dilemma resolved.;

This is a gentle way to introduce some important Australian history.

This resource aligns with the Australian Curriculum: History for Year 9.

A comprehensive account of WW1 and Australians’ battlefield experiences at Gallipoli, on the Western Front and in the Middle East. Includes the desert campaigns fought by the lighthorsemen and the contribution of the Navy, Flying Corps and the nurses.
Suit middle primary to lower secondary.

ISBN 0 9757123 5 7
Author-Matt Anderson
Second edition
Published 2006
Paperback; 40 pp
B5 Portrait
Colour images and B&W photographs throughout.

This resource aligns with the  Development of Historical Text within the Australian Curriculum: History for Year 6 .It is also a suitable text for middle primary years in the Big Book format within the historical context of the Australian Curriculum: English [Literature Strand].

A Teaching and Learning Package for Primary Schools.

ISBN 0-9757123-1-4

Published 2005

Written by Vashti Farrer & Mary Small; Illustrator -- Elizabeth Alger

Paperback with celloglaze cover and pages; 32pp excluding cover 
Big Book/Portrait 490mmx360mm; colour Illustrations every page

Package includes: 1 x Big Book 6 x Shelf Books (B5 size)
Classroom activities on CD-ROM

The individual book from the In Search of … series.

ISBN 0 9581625 9 X

The individual book from the In Search of … series.

ISBN 0 9581625 7 3

This resource aligns with the Australian Curriculum: History for Year 10 . It also fits perfectly into developing the skill of Inquiry Based Learning from Years 6-9.

A Teaching and Learning Package for Upper Primary/Lower Secondary Students.

The 5 books provide resources to help students explore aspects of the life and Australians' experiences of WW1 through evidence from the time. 

The approach of the books reflects a commitment to an inquiry approach to learning -- the conviction that students learn best by doing. Includes a CD-ROM with 5 interactives for teachers to use in conjunction with the printed books and online support material on the ADCC website www.anzacday.org.au

Written for upper primary/lower secondary.

ISBN 0-9757123-4-9
Published 2005
Produced for the ANZAC Day Commemoration Committee of Queensland by Ryebuck Media Pty Ltd.

An illustrated and pictorial tribute to Australia's tracker dogs in the Vietnam War. (Read more.)

This resource aligns with Australian Curriculum : History for Years 6 and 10 as well as the historical context required in the literature strand of the Australian Curriculum : English Years 5-10.

seek! is a 48-page tribute to the Australian tracker dogs that served in the Vietnam War.
In full colour with more than 110 photos (black & white as well as colour)—plus maps and illustrations—this book gives an overview of the Vietnam War and the service of the Australians who were deployed there; and the role of the eleven dogs that were part of the combat tracker teams that operated during Australia’s commitment from 1966 to 1972.

Authors: Di Burke and Mary Small

Suitable 10 yo to adult. -- ISBN 978-0-9804480-6-1

See also next item - accompanying Kit - available to supplement this item

This resource aligns with the Australian Curriculum : History for Year 3. It may also be used within the family history component of the Australian Curriculum : English [Literature Strand] for Years P-3 in the Big Book format.

ISBN 0-9577957-7-7

Published January 2002

Editor - Di Burke

Illustrator - Elizabeth Alger

Paperback with celloglaze cover and pages;16 pp excluding cover; Big Book/Portrait 490mmx360mm; Colour illustrations every page

Comes with a special kit to use with the book. The kit includes:

• A teachers’ manual written by Tracey Linnane, on CD
• A set of word cards – 27 words with illustrations specific to the big book;
• The oral story – ‘Why are they marching, Daddy?’ on CD; and
• 6 x Why are they marching, Daddy? Shelf books