Aerial view of a Western Australian gorge at sunset

Building
Western Australia.
From the ground up.

Ground Up WA is securing the future of our resources industry through education, innovation and opportunity.

Explore the Year 7 Draft Program → Partner With Us
Foundations
Built for WA classrooms.
Industry
Real sites, real workers, real careers.
Education
Years 5–10, aligned to the WA Curriculum.
Communities
Free for WA schools during the pilot.
Future Generations
Every student leaves with a pathway.
The Program

Six years.
One core sample.

Every year level is a layer — the deeper students go, the richer it gets. Choose a layer to enter that year's world: its units, its questions, its materials.

Program Status

Year 7 is the only year level currently built and available — 25 lessons and five assessment packs, complete in draft. Years 5, 6, 8, 9 and 10 are scoped and mapped, but not yet written. They will be built on securing founding investment.

01 Year 5 Coming Soon Discover Your Extraordinary Backyard The ground beneath them becomes interesting. 02 Year 6 Coming Soon Weigh Take, Restore, Decide Extraction has consequences — students learn to hold them. 03 Year 7 Draft Live — 25 Lessons Understand WA on the World Stage Systems thinking: water, supply chains, markets, careers. 04 Year 8 Coming Soon Value The Economics of the Ground Money, ownership and what work is actually worth. 05 Year 9 Coming Soon Question Hard Questions, Real Stakes The hard questions, faced honestly. 06 Year 10 Coming Soon Plan Your Future, Your Plan A documented pathway, pitched to real industry.
Surface — Year 5Bedrock — Year 10

For schools

Ground Up WA is a Years 5–10 resources industry education program built inside a WA classroom — free for schools during the pilot phase, aligned to the revised Western Australian Curriculum, and deployable without adding load to your staff.

See what this means for your school →

For teachers

Every unit arrives finished: lesson sequences, slide decks, student workbooks and rubrics, with one page of guidance and zero additional prep. Built by a WA teacher with more than twenty years in Western Australian classrooms, and shaped in consultation with people who have worked across the resources industry.

Browse the year levels →
Get in touch

Schools and partners — start the conversation.

Whether you are a school interested in the Year 7 pilot or an organisation exploring partnership, send a message and it comes straight to the founder.

Goes straight to hello@frontierlearningsystems.com.au

Ground Up WA acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the lands on which we live, learn and work across Western Australia, and pays respect to Elders past and present.