Education Resources
After more than 2 decades Oxfam’s school program has closed. Our commitment to tackling poverty and empowering communities continues. The resources on these pages will no longer be updated.
– September 2019.
Oxfam Australia’s classroom resources are available for use all year round, and support teachers and students to explore a range of global issues.
Our resources are produced in consultation with teachers, teacher associations and students, to ensure they are relevant, captivating, high-quality and in-line with current trends in pedagogy and technology. They are also developed in accordance with the Learn, Think, Act model of global citizenship.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples Cultures and Histories
Reconciliation begins with you, the commitment you make and the relationships you build between your school and local Elders or Traditional Custodians.
Welcome to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures and Histories resource page.
Clean Water Access – Virtual Reality Experience
Climate Action is Tackling Poverty
While climate change affects all of us, people in developing countries are hit hardest. Find out how using this printable Fact Sheet
What She Makes – Civics and Geography
While big, powerful brands like Bonds and Just Jeans make huge revenues, the women who make our clothes are struggling to survive on poverty wages.
This resource package targets Y 7,8,9 & 10 – Geography and Civics & Citizenship curriculum and engages students to challenge the big brands to pay a living wage.
Labour Rights: Behind the Seams
Why do people work? Does it matter whether they are treated fairly? What are labour rights anyway? These are some of the questions explored in this interactive student resource.
This guide looks at educational practice when fundraising at school, explores who Oxfam is and how money raised helps, and gives you practical teaching ideas and support.
To help students understand the global hunger crisis, Oxfam Australia has created a presentation based on our work in South Sudan, the Lake Chad Basin, the Horn of Africa and Yemen.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples are dying 10–17 years younger than other Australians. Think about that ― a non-Indigenous child who started school this year may outlive an Indigenous student completing Year 12. Your school can do something to help change this.Close the Gap resources will help students understand the issue of Indigenous health inequality and how to support closing the gap. These include classroom resources and a guide on how to run an event at your school.
Download the teaching notes and discover the curriculum links relating to the Food4Thought education resource.
Oxfam has a collection of worksheet templates available as PDFs. These can be used in a variety of subjects, to help your students organise, make sense of and critically engage with information.
Created in collaboration between Oxfam Australia and Social Education Victoria using real-world case studies from Oxfam’s work in Australia and overseas. Students are also supported to become informed and active global citizens, in preparation for the world outside school.
The ‘Live Strong’ Close the Gap education resource has been created in collaboration with the Australian Council for Health, Physical Education and Recreation (ACHPER), National and Oxfam Australia, on behalf of the Close the Gap Coalition. It has been developed to support the delivery of a flexible and engaging curriculum to support the Close the Gap health equality campaign, to increase intercultural understanding and awareness of the social determinants of health, and inspire young Australians to take action in their communities towards achieving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island health equality by the year 2030.
Our schools program has now closed and resources will no longer be updated. However, the Resource can still be accessed here.
Explores disasters and what organisations like Oxfam do when they respond to emergencies. It encourages critical thinking and empathy-building in students, and supports students and schools to act thoughtfully as global citizens.
Global Goals School Engagement Kit (Sustainable Development Goals)
Oxfam Australia and UNICEF Australia have teamed up to create an education resource, where school students can learn about the Global Goals and then write to their MP and tell them what these goals mean for them and the world they want to grow up in and inherit.
Oxfam Australia proudly supports the Campaign for Australian Aid, a joint initiative of the Make Poverty History and Micah Challenge coalitions – for all Australians who believe we can and should do more as a nation to end extreme poverty around the world.
The Campaign for Australia has produced a range of informative posters and fact sheets on this issue, free for you to download, print and use in class.
Food 4 Thought: Geography (Students)
The world produces enough food to feed everyone. Yet, one in nine people on our planet go to bed hungry each night. Why does hunger exist in a world with enough food for all?Food 4 Thought are lessons to help you explore these and more questions. Check out animations, videos, blogs and more and use the skills you learn in class to make a difference to the world.
Food 4 Thought: English (Students)
The world produces enough food to feed everyone. Yet, one in nine people on our planet go to bed hungry each night. Why does hunger exist in a world with enough food for all? Food 4 Thought are lessons to help you explore these and more questions. Check out animations, videos, blogs and more and use the skills you learn in class to make a difference to the world.
PDF fact sheets provide a postcard snapshot of some of these countries, and the inspiring stories of the people we work with. Countries covered: Australia; India; South Africa; Bangladesh; Papua New Guinea
Fun for use in the classroom, students can take a closer look behind the 10 biggest food and beverage brands to review and assess their scorecard performance on issues such as women, workers, farmers, land, water and climate.
The resource will help students understand the links between Australian banks, global development, and the practice of land grabs.
