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

Bridging the Distance exhibition trail activity sheet

Cage of Ghosts: Jon Rhodes exhibition trail activity sheet

Dare to Learn! Explorers on the Edge education supplement

Mr Gilbert's Beautiful Parakeet colouring in worksheet

The Ballets Russes in Australia 1936 - 1940 exhibition trail activity sheet

Brutal, Tender, Human, Animal: Roger Ballen Photography exhibition trail activity sheet

The System of Nature: Carl Linnaeus exhibition trail activity sheet

The System of Nature: Carl Linnaeus dot-to-dot activity sheet

The System of Nature: Carl Linnaeus crossword activity sheet

Thomas Griffith Taylor: prophet and pariah exhibition trail activity sheet

 

Collection Connections for Teachers

Easy to use flashcards for the classroom - with image, text, and points for discussion

Ben Hall

Lawrence Hargrave

 

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

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