Which Teaching Resources Align with the Australian Curriculum v9? A State-by-State Guide

By The EduSellers Team · 2026-11-03 · Teacher Resources

The short answer: a resource aligns with the Australian Curriculum Version 9.0 when it names the year level, the learning area and the Version 9.0 content descriptions it teaches — the codes that start with AC9 — and, if you teach in New South Wales, Victoria or Western Australia, when it has been written or adapted for your state's own syllabus rather than relabelled. This guide explains what Version 9.0 is, how to read an AC9 code, which states teach the national curriculum directly and which run their own, and how to check all of that on an EduSellers resource page before you download.

What Version 9.0 actually is

The Australian Curriculum is written by ACARA (the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority) and covers Foundation to Year 10 across eight learning areas: English, Mathematics, Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, The Arts, Technologies, Health and Physical Education, and Languages. Version 9.0 was endorsed by Australia's education ministers in April 2022 and replaced Version 8.4. It trimmed and re-sequenced content, strengthened phonics and phonemic awareness in early English, organised Mathematics into six strands (Number, Algebra, Measurement, Space, Statistics and Probability), and sharpened the Technologies and HASS content. The three dimensions — the learning areas, seven general capabilities and three cross-curriculum priorities — stayed.

Alongside the F–10 curriculum, ACARA publishes senior secondary curriculum for English, Mathematics, Science and Humanities. The states integrate that content into their own Year 11 and 12 courses, which is why senior resources are tagged to a state certificate rather than to AC9 codes. Our Australian Curriculum Version 9.0 guide walks through the structure in more detail.

How to read an AC9 code

Every Version 9.0 content description has a code, and the code tells you where it sits. Take AC9M6M02: AC9 is the version, M is Mathematics, 6 is Year 6, M is the Measurement strand and 02 is the second content description in that strand for that year. The same pattern holds across learning areas. AC9E3LY05 is English, Year 3, Literacy strand. AC9S7H02 is Science, Year 7, Science as a Human Endeavour. AC9HH7K05 is History, Year 7, Knowledge and understanding. AC9HS2K01 is Humanities and Social Sciences, Year 2 — HASS is one integrated subject from Foundation to Year 6 and splits into History, Geography, Civics and Citizenship, and Economics and Business from Year 7. Banded learning areas such as The Arts, Technologies and Health and Physical Education use the band in place of a single year, so one code can cover Years 9 and 10 together.

A resource that quotes its codes is making a checkable claim. The free Area of Composite Shapes lesson is tagged AC9M6M02; the Place Value to Millions poster is tagged AC9M5N01; the free Setting Up Number Centres lesson is tagged AC9M2N03. In secondary History and Science, Significance Circles cites AC9HH7K05 and Seasonal Indicators and Caring for Country cites AC9S7H02. You can paste any of those codes into ACARA's curriculum site and read the content description it points to.

State by state: who teaches what

Australia has one national curriculum but not one classroom curriculum. Three states write their own syllabuses; the other five jurisdictions deliver the Australian Curriculum directly. The edition counts below are the published state editions on EduSellers at the time of writing (November 2026), from a catalogue of 5,175 published resources.

• New South Wales — NESA (the NSW Education Standards Authority) writes its own K–10 and Stage 6 syllabuses. They are aligned to the Australian Curriculum but organised by stage (Early Stage 1 to Stage 5 for K–10, Stage 6 for Years 11 and 12) with NESA outcome codes rather than AC9 codes, and NESA has been replacing its K–10 syllabuses in a staged rollout since 2023. 438 NSW editions.
• Victoria — the VCAA publishes the Victorian Curriculum F–10, which carries the Australian Curriculum content under Victoria's own structure and codes; Version 2.0, which takes up the Version 9.0 content, is being introduced by learning area. 411 Victorian editions.
• Western Australia — the SCSA (School Curriculum and Standards Authority) publishes the Western Australian Curriculum and Assessment Outline, an adoption of the Australian Curriculum with WA adjustments, and has been moving its learning areas to Version 9.0 content progressively. 389 WA editions.
• Queensland — teaches the Australian Curriculum directly; the QCAA supports schools with a staged move to Version 9.0 by learning area. 364 Queensland editions.
• South Australia, Tasmania, the ACT and the Northern Territory — all deliver the Australian Curriculum Version 9.0 through their education departments or directorate, so an AC9-coded resource fits as written. 389, 389, 390 and 394 editions respectively.

What a state edition changes is the wording and the references, not the maths or the science. The NSW edition of Clues in Pictures and Words is labelled "New South Wales curriculum edition" and keeps the AC9 codes it maps to (AC9E3LY05 and AC9E3LE04), so you can cross-check it against the NESA English K–10 outcomes; the Victorian Year 4 Place Value Assessment Task (AC9M4N01) and the WA Year 2 My Family and the Past unit plan (AC9HS2K01) do the same for their states. For the five jurisdictions that teach the national curriculum directly, the National edition is the canonical one; the state edition exists for teachers who want their state named on the page.

How to check alignment on a resource page

Four things, in order.

1. Year level. It is in the title line and the tags. A "Foundation to Year 6" pack is not aligned to Year 4; it is aligned to a range you will have to cut down.
2. Learning area and strand. The description opens with them ("Mathematics · Year 4 · Place Value"), so you can see which strand the work sits in before you open the preview.
3. The codes. Look for "Aligned to" followed by AC9 codes, or a NESA outcome such as EN11-3 on a NSW senior resource. Of the 5,175 resources published on EduSellers today, 4,465 quote at least one AC9 code in their description.
4. The edition. The state is named on the page. If you teach in NSW, Victoria or WA, use your state's edition; if you teach elsewhere, the National edition is the one to cite.

Then open the preview. A code is a claim; the worked example, the success criteria and the answer key are the evidence. Every state hub — NSW, VIC, QLD, WA, SA, TAS, ACT and NT — lists its editions by subject and year, and the primary school and high school pages split the catalogue by year level.