Teach ANZAC Day without the prep. This 9-page worksheet pack gives Year 3 to Year 5 students everything they need to learn about the ANZACs across nine different topics. Each worksheet includes an information passage with comprehension questions, so students read and respond independently. Just print and go.
Key features:
- 9 worksheets covering food, nurses, memorials, Simpson and his donkey, and more: one resource, multiple lessons
- Information passage on every page: students read the content then answer questions from the text
- B&W throughout: saves ink and prints cleanly every time
- No prep required: print the pages you need and hand them out
- Works for whole class, small groups, or independent work: flexible across classroom settings
- Suitable for Year 3 to Year 5: content complexity suits middle primary
What’s included:
• Cover page
• Simpson and His Donkey (students read a passage about Simpson’s story at Gallipoli, then answer comprehension questions and draw a visualisation)
• All About ANZAC Nurses (students read about nurses in WWI, answer extended questions, and write a diary entry as a nurse)
• Life of an ANZAC Letter (students imagine they are a soldier or nurse and write a letter home describing their experience)
• Life Then and Now (students compare a soldier’s daily life to their own life today using a two-column format)
• Life Then and Now Continued (students draw a soldier’s life and their own life then answer questions about differences)
• What Does ANZAC Stand For? (students underline answers in the text and complete the acronym activity)
• The ANZACs Food (students read about rations including hard tack and Anzac biscuits, draw a menu and answer questions)
• The ANZACs Memorials (students read about war memorials, research or draw their local memorial and answer questions)
• Summary of Learning (students draw and note-take to summarise the most important things they learned about the ANZACs)
• Credits and terms of use
