Australia Day: Celebration or Commiseration Resource Bundle

What is the story behind our national day?

Use the Australia Day: Celebration or Commiseration Resource Bundle to engage your students in a study of Australia Day.

Australian Curriculum Links: ACHASSK064, ACHASSK086, ACHASSK107, ACHASSK135

This resource is delivered as a 18 page PDF in A4 size.


So, what's included?

✓ Dozens of ideas to introduce the topic, dig a little deeper and get creative with it!

✓ Engaging article titled Australia Day: Celebration or Commiseration about the history of Australia Day and why Australia Day is sometimes debated in the media

✓ 3-2-1 Article Response worksheet

✓ Australia’s National Emblems worksheet

✓ ‘Boat People’ poster

✓ ‘Boat People’ worksheet

✓ Cause & Effect worksheet

✓ Acts of Discrimination towards Indigenous Australians

✓ Cartoon Analysis

✓ This Australia Day I... worksheet

✓ We Made Damper! procedure writing activity

✓ Australian National Anthem worksheet



Purchase Issue 30 of HistoriCool Magazine in print or digital format to use this resource alongside the coinciding mag.