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On these pages you will find a range of materials and suggestions that will enable teachers and students to explore Gallipoli and the Anzacs in their classrooms, including the Operation CLICK Resource kit.The Anzac legend and the events at Gallipoli form an important part of what it means to be an Australian. Why is this? How did these events come to mean what they do today?


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Operation CLICK

Operation CLICK: Anzac to Kokoda is a classroom resource which draws on and encourages the use of this website, as well as the Australia’s War 1939–1945 website – www.ww2australia.gov.au

The resource book and CD-ROM package contains lessons that can be used in many contexts in History and Studies of Society and Environment (SOSE) classrooms. They were written by experienced history teachers with three aims in mind:

  • to provide both beginning and experienced teachers with lessons using the two websites as core resources.
  • to invite teachers to explore more effective ways of encouraging their students to incorporate ICT skills into their classroom learning activities
  • to provide exciting and original lessons that will encourage young Australians to learn more about Australia’s wartime heritage through the stories and images provided on the two websites.

Bibliography for Teaching Gallipoli


Why did so many Australians volunteer to go and fight on the other side of the world? What was it like living in the trenches at Gallipoli, only a stone's throw from the enemy? Why were there almost 50 percent casualties at the first landing? How accurate was the 1981 movie, Gallipoli? Why do Australians commemorate Anzac Day?

These and many other questions are answered in the following books. If you are looking for the best histories of the Australians and New Zealanders at Gallipoli, here are some recommended titles.
"The Anzacs" by Patsy Adam-Smith

Links to other sites about Gallipoli and the Anzacs


New Zealand soldiers in the trench


We have made a wide selection of external links to other websites about Gallipoli and the Anzacs that will be of particular interest to teachers and students. You can find more paintings, photographs, articles and maps at these websites. They range from sites devoted to the soldiers who fought there to reviews of the 1981 movie Gallipoli. More quality sites on these topics will be added as they come to our notice.
Gallipoli grave site

Contact details


If you would like to contact any of the three participants in the development of this project, you may do so from here. This Department of Veterans' Affairs website was created with the assistance of the Office of the Board of Studies New South Wales and the Office of Australian War Graves.


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Students and teachers are free to reproduce materials on this website for study purposes, but for any other uses you should contact the website manager first. Read the details here.


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