School materials and resources
Online and downloadable materials and resources available for your classroom, school visit, or families at home. Access a much larger range of Library online exhibitions and websites through these specific links to teacher notes and schools pages.
Downloadable exhibition activity sheets
- A Modern Vision: Charles Bayliss, Photographer, 1850-1897 exhibition trail activity sheet (1,593 kb)
- Bridging the Distance exhibition trail activity sheet (661 kb)
- Cage of Ghosts: Jon Rhodes exhibition trail activity sheet (903 kb)
- Dare to Learn! Explorers on the Edge education supplement (4,064 kb)
- Mr Gilbert's Beautiful Parakeet colouring in worksheet (280 kb)
- The Ballets Russes in Australia 1936 - 1940 exhibition trail activity sheet (351 kb)
- Brutal, Tender, Human, Animal: Roger Ballen Photography exhibition trail activity sheet (983 kb)
- The System of Nature: Carl Linnaeus exhibition trail activity sheet (8,265 kb)
- The System of Nature: Carl Linnaeus dot-to-dot activity sheet (168 kb)
- The System of Nature: Carl Linnaeus crossword activity sheet (285 kb)
- Thomas Griffith Taylor: prophet and pariah exhibition trail activity sheet (715 kb)
Collection Connections for Teachers
- Easy to use flashcards for the classroom - with image, text, and points for discussion
- Ben Hall (272 kb)
- Lawrence Hargrave (285 kb)
Library websites, interactives and online exhibitions
- Australian Backyard Astronomy
- Belonging: A Century Celebrated
- Bunyips
- Captain Cook's Journal 1768 - 71
- Federation Gateway
- National Treasures from Australia's Great Libraries
- Nora Heysen
- The Flower Hunter: Ellis Rowan
- Treasures from the World’s Great Libraries
Picture Australia slideshow trails
- Picture Australia slideshow trails developed in collaboration with The Le@rning Federation (TLF), including educational value statements for each theme
- Advertising Australia
- Caring for the war wounded
- Cartoons and caricatures
- Enlist now!
- Innovations and inventions
- Mawson in Antarctica
- Racing Australia
- Scenes from the Second World War
- See Australia!
- War prisoners and internees
- Whaling in the Southern Ocean
- Wild Weather
External websites, interactives and online exhibitions
- National Library material available as part of Screen Australia Digital Learning
- Investigating National Treasures with Warren Brown (2006)
- James Cook's Endeavour Journal
- Waltzing Matilda songsheet
- The Prime Ministers' National Treasures (2007)
- Joseph Lyons' Love Letters
- Hidden Treasures - Inside the National Library of Australia (2008)
- Augustus Earle and his Dog, Jemmy
- A Passionate Collector: Rex Nan Kivell
- Captain Cook’s Tragic Death
- First Fleet Sketches: Hunter and Raper
- Figure in the Landscape: John Glover
- John Olsen’s Opera House Mural
- South Sea Islander in London
- The Flower Hunter
- The Photographer and the Painter
