You can explore Anzac Day through digital learning in a way that is engaging, fun, and extremely impactful for your students.

Introducing Anzac Day through videos

One simple way to explore Anzac Day Through Digital Learning is by sharing videos with your students. The following videos would be great to share with students via Seesaw, Google Classroom, or directly to parents via email.

The following video gives some clear background information on ANZAC Day and its importance to both Australia and New Zealand.

“What is Anzac Day?” – Video running time: 2:08

The Battle of Gallipoli has special significance for New Zealand, Australia and Turkey. The following video by BTN (Behind the News) looks at this important, and tragic event.

“Anzac Day: The Gallipoli Story” – Video running time: 4:46

BTN (Behind the News) is a great resource for videos about Anzac Day that are made specifically for children. Australian’s can view the videos via their official website, while those in other locations can view them via their Youtube channel.

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“Here they come – A day to remember” – Video running time: 7:00

The Australian Department of Veteran’s Affairs has put together a fantastic video to teach students about commemoration. I love the mix of photographs and animation.

Explore Anzac Day using web links

Anzac Day Teaching Ideas

I previously put a blog post together that highlights interesting ANZAC Day themed weblinks and resources.

You can find more teacher-created material in our online teaching tools for teachers shop.

This includes Australian and New Zealand web links to:

Research local war memorials
Search for a soldier
Take a virtual trip to Gallipoli

You can read the blogpost and check out the links by clicking here.

Explore Anzac Day with Digital Reading Activities

Go paperless with our Anzac Day Digital puzzle poster resource. Your students will learn about Anzac Day’s history, the battle of Gallipoli, the significance of poppies and rosemary, how the day is celebrated today, and more! This resource features a full resource for both Australian and New Zealand classrooms. Students complete activities to earn puzzle pieces and produce a beautiful Anzac Day puzzle poster. Click here to learn more about our Digital Anzac Day Scavenger Hunt.

I also recommend checking out our Anzac Day Digital Interactive Reading Activities. Featuring differentiated reading passages and questions, this Google slides resource includes four passages (at two levels) with six-eight unique slides of engaging text-dependent questions and higher-order thinking interactive tasks. Click here to see more.

New Digital Anzac Day Activities

Anzac Day Digital Reading WebQuest social studies resource

Go paperless with our Anzac Day Digital Webquestresource and dive deep into this important part of New Zealand and Australia’s collective history. Explore what Anzac Day is, the Gallipoli campaign, Anzac Day and Poppies, and Māori in the First and Second World Wars.

This Google Slides resource includes 15 fascinating topics. Students hunt for information in the web links provided and use this information to complete the engaging activities. Use the resource in full or use one of the four main themes (What is Anzac Day?, the Gallipoli campaign, Anzac Day and Poppies, and Māori in the First and Second World Wars).