Remembrance Day…

Remembrance Day – also known as Poppy Day, Armistice Day (the event it commemorates) or Veterans Day – is a day to commemorate the sacrifices of members of the armed forces and of civilians in times of war, specifically since the First World War. It is observed on 11 November to recall the end of World War I on that date in 1918. The day was specifically dedicated by King George V, on 7 November 1919, to the observance of members of the armed forces who were killed during war.

From Wikipedia – Remembrance Day

History and SOSE teachers are advised that Remembrance Day ceremony outline and historical background can be found online at the Department of Veterans’ Affairs Remembrance Day Page.

More support materials are available from the Australian War Memorial – Remembrance Day web pages.

Other Recommended Resources

Australian Screen’s Education collection is designed to help teachers and students make the most of the wide range of moving image resources. The War collection includes 95 video clips including 31 clips about the First World War.

Not Forgotten (Screening on SBS on Tuesday 11th November at 8.30pm).
To mark Remembrance Day, SBS will screen this poignant documentary presented by Mark Lee (best known to audiences as the young lead in the 1981 feature film “Gallipoli”). Mark takes the memorials of WW1 as his starting point, and researches individual stories to turn names and statistics into people with faces and personal histories. Tracking down their descendants, he unveils a series of moving portraits, exploring the scale of the loss, the experience of grief, and the motivations which took so many Australians to war on the other side of the world. As WW1 fades into ancient history, this documentary turns the names frozen in time back into remembered lives, however briefly, helping us unlock the experience and the legacy of the Great War on a personal, family, community and national level, and ensuring these names are not forgotten. (Notes from SBS Television)

A free Study Guide for this documentary is available for download from Enhance TV

Picture books to support units of work on Remembrance Day include Memorial by Gary Crew and Shaun Tan and In Flanders Fields by Norman Jorgensen & Brian Harrison-Lever.

Completing a CMIS Topic Search of the CMIS Resource Bank using the keyword ‘war’ will give a listing of almost 300 resources that could be used in a unit of work about war. Remember – your search can be narrowed by Phase of Development, Learning Area and Outcomes.

CMIS has set up a flickr account where we can share images taken by staff members. All images have a Creative Commons licence meaning they can be used mashed up, modified and used (with attribution). The Australian War Memorial set of images were taken by a CMIS staff member on a recent trip to Canberra.

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