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ACTF resources bring Australian stories into the heart of learning, offering ready-to-use, curriculum-aligned tasks that spark curiosity and creativity.

Our five most popular resources for 2025 have something for every year level. Bookmark this list for 2026 lesson planning!

1. Writing RUNT with Craig Silvey (Years 3-6)

Join award-winning novelist and screenwriter Craig Silvey as he takes students behind the scenes of RUNT, a heartwarming and adventurous story following eleven-year-old Annie Shearer and her loyal dog Runt, who team up to save their family farm in the country town of Upson Downs.

This fun and engaging Q&A session explores Craig’s writing process and the journey of adapting his novel for the screen, offering young storytellers valuable insights into narrative, character development and screenwriting, while learning from one of Australia’s most celebrated writers.

2. Comedy Scriptwriting Resource (Years 5-8)

When students are asked to write, they often think of essays, reports or stories. But what happens when we invite them to write for the screen, or better yet, to write comedy? Suddenly, the classroom fills with energy, laughter and collaboration. Comedy scriptwriting makes lessons fun, and it’s a powerful tool for building media and critical literacy. 

This resource unpacks examples from The Inbestigators, Hardball and Little Lunch through short clips, script excerpts and engaging writing prompts, inviting students to step into the writer’s seat and create their own comedy scripts.

3. Consent and Respectful Relationships: Curated Clip Collection (Years F-12)

Understanding and applying strategies for seeking and giving consent is crucial for students’ personal development. As young people navigate their relationships with peers, teachers, and others, it is vital they learn the difference between respectful and disrespectful behaviours.

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, tailored to appropriate year levels, students work through activities that build their awareness of how to ask for, give, and deny permission.

4. Eddie’s Lil’ Homies (Years F-2)

This resource centres on the personal and social skills and understandings that are explored in each episode of the 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.

5. Civics and Citizenship: Curated Clip Collection (Years F-10)

National testing of Australian 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 Civics and Citizenship: Curated Clip Collection introduces students to key ideas in civics and citizenship education, including democracy, diversity rights and responsibilities, and active participation in community life. Through engaging Australian children’s television content, students reflect, explore and create activities that build their understanding of what it means to be an active and informed member of their community.