ANZAC Day Scavenger Hunt | New Zealand & Australia History Activity

Teach ANZAC Day in an active, respectful, and age-appropriate way.

Perfect for fluent readers aged 8–11, Years 3–6, New Zealand and Australian classrooms, and homeschool history.

Students move around the room, read fact cards, hunt for answers, complete worksheets, and write about ANZAC Day.

Need an ANZAC Day activity that is meaningful, easy to set up, and engaging for primary students?

This ANZAC Day Scavenger Hunt helps children learn about ANZAC Day, remembrance, service, history, and why this day is important in both New Zealand and Australia.

Instead of giving students a long passage to read silently, this resource gets them moving. Fact cards are placed around the room, and students “hunt” for the answers while completing their worksheet. It is a simple way to combine reading comprehension, movement, social studies, and reflection.

What’s Included

This 15-page downloadable PDF includes:

• Teacher instructions
• 11 ANZAC Day fact cards
• Fact cards in both black and white and colour/color
• 2 student worksheets
• 1 writing template for students to write about ANZAC Day
• Print-and-go classroom activity format

Why This Resource Works

ANZAC Day can be difficult to teach well. You want the lesson to be respectful and historically meaningful, but also accessible for children.

This resource helps solve that problem by giving fluent readers a structured, active way to gather information and think about what they have learned.

It supports:

• ANZAC Day learning
• New Zealand and Australian history
• Reading comprehension
• Information-finding skills
• Social studies
• Vocabulary development
• Movement-based learning
• Independent or partner work
• Reflection and writing
• Low-prep classroom or homeschool use

The follow-up writing template helps children move beyond “finding the answers” and begin expressing what ANZAC Day means and why it is remembered.

Best For

This resource is ideal for:

• Fluent readers aged 8–11
• Years 3–6
• New Zealand classrooms
• Australian classrooms
• Homeschool history
• ANZAC Day lessons
• Social studies
• Literacy rotations
• Partner activities
• Small group work
• Teachers wanting low-prep April resources

Suggested Use

Print the ANZAC Day fact cards and place them around the classroom. Students move around the room, read each card, find the information they need, and record answers on their worksheet.

After the scavenger hunt, students complete the writing template to show what they learned about ANZAC Day. This can be used as an independent activity, partner task, literacy rotation, small group lesson, or whole-class ANZAC Day activity.

Created by Montessori Kiwi

Created by a New Zealand registered teacher and Montessori-trained educator, this resource is designed for real classrooms where children need history learning that is active, thoughtful, and accessible.

It saves preparation time while helping students engage respectfully with ANZAC Day through reading, searching, discussion, and writing.

15 Pages - PDF

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