Australian Citizenship Day teaching resource and activities
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These resources for primary and secondary schools encourage young Australians to think about Australian citizenship, including the responsibilities and privileges of Australian citizenship. The resources include:
- information about Australian citizenship
- lesson ideas
- student activities
- suggestions on how to celebrate Australian Citizenship Day on 17 September.
The resources are available for printing in colour or black and white.
Primary school
Teaching resource
Primary teaching resource - colour version (1.9MB PDF file)
Primary teaching resource - black and white version (911KB PDF file)
Each page of the teaching resource is also available for download in individual PDF and HTML files to reduce download times.
- Page 1 - Australian Citizenship Day
- PDF - colour version (431KB PDF file)
- PDF - black and white version (240KB PDF file)
- HTML
- Page 2 - Students - check out the website
- PDF - colour version (235KB PDF file)
- PDF - black and white version (192KB PDF file)
- HTML
- Page 3 - What it means to be Australian
- PDF - colour version (145KB PDF file)
- PDF - black and white version (129KB PDF file)
- HTML
- Page 4 - Privileges and responsibilities of Australian citizenship
- PDF - colour version (473KB PDF file))
- PDF - black and white version (336KB PDF file)
- HTML
- Page 5 - Teachers celebrate Australian Citizenship Day 2007 with your students
- PDF - colour version (165KB PDF file)
- PDF - black and white version (125KB PDF file)
- HTML
- Page 6 - Lesson and activity ideas
- PDF - colour version (205KB PDF file)
- PDF - black and white version (92KB PDF file)
- HTML
- Page 7 - Australian Citizenship Day 2007 activities
- PDF - colour version (549KB PDF file)
- PDF - black and white version (74KB PDF file)
- HTML
- Page 8 - Teacher feedback form
- PDF - colour version (77KB PDF file)
- PDF - black and white version (77KB PDF file)
- HTML
Lesson ideas
Primary lesson ideas - black and white version (144KB PDF file)
Primary lesson ideas - HTML version
Secondary school
Teaching resource
Teaching resource - colour version (703KB PDF file)
Teaching resource - black and white version (634KB PDF file)
Each page of the teaching resource is also available for download in individual PDF and HTML files to reduce download times.
- Page 1
- Australian Citizenship Day
- PDF - colour version (338KB PDF file)
- PDF - black and white version (311KB PDF file)
- HTML
- Page 2
- Australian citizenship ceremonies
- PDF - colour version (136KB PDF file)
- PDF - black and white version (122KB PDF file)
- HTML
- Page 3 - What does it mean to be Australian?
- PDF - colour version (112KB PDF file)
- PDF - black and white version (106KB PDF file)
- HTML
- Page 4 - Privileges and responsibilities of Australian citizenship
- PDF - colour version (123KB PDF file)
- PDF - black and white version (151KB PDF file)
- HTML
- Page 5 - Teachers celebrate Australian Citizenship Day 2007 with your students
- PDF - colour version (106KB PDF file)
- PDF - black and white version (110KB PDF file)
- HTML
- Page 6 - How your school can celebrate Australian Citizenship Day
- PDF - colour version (108KB PDF file)
- PDF - black and white version (103KB PDF file)
- HTML
- Page 7 - Australian Citizenship Day 2007 activities
- PDF - colour version (67KB PDF file)
- PDF - black and white version (77KB PDF file)
- HTML
- Page 8
- Teacher feedback form
- PDF - colour version (62KB PDF file)
- PDF - black and white version (72KB PDF file)
- HTML
Lesson ideas
Secondary lesson ideas - black and white version (44KB PDF file)
Secondary lesson ideas - HTML version