Commemorating Anzac through engaging learning

Science and technology Stage 3

Overview

Two men stand in a cutting with a cable drum

Two members of 1st Divisional Signals, AIF, laying cable along a trench at Anzac Cove, 1915

Students construct simple electrical circuits incorporating a switch and globe. Students use the switch to send a Morse code message that uses flashes of light. Students label a diagram of their electrical circuit explaining its operation. They state how scientific understanding about electricity was applied to its use during the First World War.

Links

  1. https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/H05440/
  2. https://flic.kr/p/drAG3U
  3. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/
  4. http://www.gallipoli.gov.au/an-artist-at-the-landing/signaller-silas-of-the-16th-battalion.php
  5. http://greatwarphotos.com/tag/signals/
  6. http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/0/ww1/25401271
  7. https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/ART02928/
  8. http://www.technologytom.com/html/electricity_1.html
  9. http://www.technologytom.com/html/world_war_1.html
  10. http://www.livescience.com/45641-science-of-world-war-i-communications.html
  11. http://www.gallipoli.gov.au/north-beach-and-the-sari-bair-range/index.php