A key feature of the next two lessons will be the 'Australian War Memorial Box 1 - Australia in the First World War.'
This box is filled with fantastic primary sources from World War One including photographs, letters, pieces of uniforms, medals, badges, maps, a slouch hat, lead balls from inside shrapnel shells, postcards, magazines, and a recruiting card (just to name a few).
Take your time observing these items throughout the lesson and use them to your advantage when completing the following activities. Please be careful when handling the items and remember to wear the white gloves provided.
This box is filled with fantastic primary sources from World War One including photographs, letters, pieces of uniforms, medals, badges, maps, a slouch hat, lead balls from inside shrapnel shells, postcards, magazines, and a recruiting card (just to name a few).
Take your time observing these items throughout the lesson and use them to your advantage when completing the following activities. Please be careful when handling the items and remember to wear the white gloves provided.
Activity 1: The Causes of World War One
To begin this lesson you are required to complete the following worksheets. They will help to give you an understanding of the context of Australia within World War One and what caused the war. You have the choice to either complete the Timeline Worksheet OR the Mix 'n' Match Worksheet. Pages 244-245 of your textbook History 9 for the Australian Curriculum will help you with these worksheets. All students must complete the Glossary Worksheet for HOMEWORK.
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Activity 2: Where Australians Fought
The following maps show where Australian troops fought during World War One. You can trace these maps into your workbooks or collect a printed copy at the start of the activity.
Mark the following locations on Map 1: The Dardanelles, Cape Helles, Gaba Tepe, Sulva Bay and Anzac Cove
(Commonwealth of Australia, 2005, p. 1)
Map 2 shows the locations of battles on the Western Front. Mark the following battle locations: Pozieres, Verdun, Fromelles, Passchendaele.
(Department of Veterans Affairs: Australians on the Western Front, 2006, p.16)
Activity 3: Why Australians Enlisted to Fight
"Australians will stand beside our own to help and
defend her to our last man and our last shilling."
These were the words spoken by Labor Party leader Andrew Fisher on 31 July 1914, four days before Britain declared war on Germany. Australia had pledged its support for Britain and so this meant that Australia too was at war.
The announcement of war was initially met with much enthusiasm among many (but not all) Australians.
In 1914 Governor-General Sir Ronald Munro-Ferguson claimed
"there is an indescribable enthusiasm and entire unanimity
throughout Australia in support of all that tends to provide for
the security of the Empire in war."
(Department of Veterans Affairs: Investigating Gallipoli, 2010, p. 17)
***Your task is to read page 252-254 of your textbook (History 9 for the Australian Curriculum) and consider the following 6 sources. From your source analysis, you are required to list the various motivations for joining the war. Consider how these motivations changed from the start of the war, to during the war (after news of casualties had reached home). This can be completed in your workbook or by using one of the following three Web 2.0 Tools: