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Are you looking for inspiration for lesson planning? We've rounded up the five most viewed ACTF education resources for 2025 so far. Could these popular resources be used to support student learning in your class this year?

1.      Consent and Respectful Relationships - Curated Clip Collection 

This clip collection is designed to help students understand and practice respectful communication, focusing on concepts of consent, bodily autonomy and personal boundaries. Using clips from Australian children’s television content, students work through activities that build their awareness of how to ask for, give, and deny permission.

The resource is divided by year levels with modules for every year level from Foundation to Year 12.

2.      Civics and Citizenship (Pilot) - Curated Clip Collection 

National testing of Australian school students to measure “attitudes and engagement” with civics and citizenship last year found just 28% of Year 10 students had a proficient level of understanding of the subject. For Year 6 students, proficiency fell from 53% in 2019 to 43% in 2024 - the worst result since testing started in 2004. This has prompted a Federal parliamentary committee to recommend a universal and mandatory civics and citizenship curriculum.

Our pilot resource features clips and activities that help students explore leadership, democracy and active citizenship, with modules for students from Foundation to Year 10.

3.      Eddie’s Lil’ Homies 

This resource centres on the personal and social skills and understandings that are explored in each episode of the animated children’s series, Eddie’s Lil’ Homies. It includes concepts, discussion starters and hands-on learning tasks that support Foundation to Year 2 students to understand themselves and others, supporting them to navigate relationships in the classroom and beyond.

4.      Kangaroo Beach Series 3

Designed for students in Foundation to Year 2, our brand-new resource reinforces the key water safety themes explored in Kangaroo Beach S3. Support swimming lessons with fun and informative content to keep students safe and healthy in and near the water.

5.      Windcatcher 

Developed for Years 5 to 8, our Windcatcher resource provides sequenced learning tasks suitable for a whole-class film study, or teachers can select individual tasks to complement and extend a class or cohort film screening. These English tasks build students’ knowledge of viewing processes, including planning, monitoring, reflecting and reviewing.