About Learning Map

The free, open map of how Australian kids learn — every primary-years skill, what comes before it, what it unlocks, and how to tell your child has it.

What this is

Learning Map connects 1,590 skills across 8 subjects and 54 domains with 3,221 prerequisite links — from first sounds at age 4 to high-school-ready at 11 and beyond. It’s a map, not a list: every skill shows what it builds on and what it unlocks, with a written reason for each connection. Nothing else public does this for Australian primary learning.

It’s written for humans. Each skill has a plain-English description, “how to tell they’ve got it” signs of mastery, and a question you can actually try with your child — not curriculum-speak. And it speaks Australian: every mapped skill carries candidate alignments to Australian Curriculum v9 codes, NSW syllabus outcome codes and Victorian Curriculum 2.0 codes.

Why it exists

Two reasons. First, when parents ask “what should my seven-year-old be learning?” the honest answer is a web of connected skills, not a checklist — but no public resource showed the connections. Second, there was no clean, machine-readable version of the Australian Curriculum v9 content descriptions for people to build on. Learning Map fixes both: human pages up top, open data underneath.

Who’s behind it

Learning Map is a project by Ian Hunt of Ape Labs, a digital studio in Bellingen, NSW. It’s a pure open asset: no accounts, no email capture, nothing to buy — and the only analytics running is Plausible's cookieless, aggregate kind, which can't identify you — and if you use Where we’re up to to track a child's progress, what you record stays on your device; we can’t see it.

What it is not

Learning Map is not an official curriculum resource, and its curriculum alignments are candidate alignments — machine-suggested and unreviewed (v0.1). For official curriculum content, go to australiancurriculum.edu.au and curriculum.nsw.edu.au. Ages on the map are typical starting points, not deadlines — children learn at their own pace.

Contact

Questions, corrections or ideas? Get in touch via apelabs.au. Corrections to skills or connections are welcome — the underlying data is open, and the method page explains how it all fits together.