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 and NSW syllabus outcome 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 tracking, no email capture, nothing to buy.

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.