A useful mission is specific before a teacher starts editing it. It reflects the local curriculum, gives the class a clear way to learn, and produces materials that fit the task.

This update makes missions more specific in those three places: more local curriculum coverage, 8 more active-learning methods, and 5 new structured handout types for lessons where the page format matters.

The practical result is less generic planning. You start closer to the curriculum you teach, choose from a wider set of classroom routines, and get materials that better match what students are meant to do.

Australian teachers now get 22 more Australian Curriculum units in the generator. They appear when you plan by Australia, year level, subject, and topic.

More Australian Curriculum coverage

This update adds 22 Australian Curriculum units across HASS, Technologies, The Arts, and senior secondary mathematics.

That gives you more relevant topic choices when you pick Australia, a year level, a subject, and a topic. The practical effect is less time bending a near-match into shape, and more missions that start from the curriculum you are actually teaching.

Screenshot of the Flip Education mission generator with Australian Curriculum Foundation English topics selected

8 more active-learning methods

The methodology library is expanding from 56 to 64 methods, with two new active-learning categories: Community & Civic and Literacy & Reading.

The new methods are:

  • Inquiry-Based Learning: students investigate a question, gather evidence, and build an explanation.
  • Service Learning: classroom work connects to a real community need and a structured reflection.
  • Reciprocal Teaching: students lead reading through predicting, questioning, clarifying, and summarising.
  • Maker Learning: students sketch, build, test, and improve a tangible solution.
  • Socio-Scientific Issues: students reason through science-linked public questions using evidence and values.
  • Numbered Heads Together: every student prepares because any group member may be called to answer.
  • Reciprocal Questioning: students write and exchange questions to deepen discussion.
  • Mystery Object: students infer meaning from an unfamiliar object, image, source, or artefact.

5 more structured handout types

Missions are also getting more structured material formats for lessons where the shape of the page matters.

Preview of five structured handout types for source analysis, concept mapping, budgeting, field data, and station rotation

The new formats are:

  • Primary Source Analysis Grid: annotation columns around a source excerpt for case studies, document mysteries, mock trials, museum exhibits, and Socratic seminars.
  • Concept Mapping Canvas: an A3 landscape canvas with seed concepts and linking words for concept mapping, jigsaw, and gallery walk lessons.
  • Budget Ledger Template: a line-item table for case studies, decision matrices, simulation games, and problem-based learning when the topic involves money.
  • Field Data Log: replicate-reading tables for empirical inquiry, so students can record observations with units and conditions.
  • Station Rotation Task Card: a four-up A4 layout for station rotation lessons, with clearer instructions at each station.

That matters most when the structure is the learning: source analysis, concept relationships, budgets, field observations, and station-by-station routines.

Better topic search in the generator

Topic search is better at finding useful curriculum topics when teachers use the words they already use in class.

Built with teachers

The first Portugal group in the Flip Education Teacher Network is now under way. Nearly 20 teachers are testing Flip Education for five weeks, across planning, generation, materials, and classroom use, so we can build a better product for teachers. Schools in Latin America and North America are coming up next.

If a handout would help your class run more smoothly, tell Flo or write to us.