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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.
Tracking Indigenous Studies through the NLA collection
- Japarta Maurie Ryan oral history interview, 2000 lesson plan
- Japarta Maurie Ryan interviewed by Glenys Diamond in the Bringing them home oral history project, 29 Dec. 2000 listen to the recording
- Japarta Maurie Ryan interviewed by Glenys Dimond in the Bringing them home oral history project, 10 April 2000 read transcript
- Get Up presents 'The GetUp Mob! From Little Things Big Things Grow' 21 April, 2008 watch video
- Albert Medal presented to Neighbour for gallantry, 1911 lesson plan
- Portrait of Aya-I-Ga, also known as Neighbour and Nipper, ca.1912 lesson plan
- Newspaper articles related to Wave Hill lesson plan
- 'Vestey plan for north', p 1, The Argus (Melbourne), Thursday 18 December, 1947
- ‘Petty’s Comment’ cartoon, Bruce Petty, The Australian, Friday 19 February, 1965
- ‘Govt. backing for increase in Aborigines’ wages’, p 5, The Age, Saturday 10 July, 1965
- ‘Aborigines are not worth award wages says QC', p 5, The Australian, Friday 9 July, 1965
- ‘Aboriginal strike near crisis point’, The Age, Saturday 24 September, 1966
- ‘Strike Parley’, p 8, The Courier Mail, Wednesday 31 August, 1966
- ‘Award Rates Asked for N.T. Natives’, p 14, The Age, Friday 23 October, 1964
- ‘Aborigines would lose jobs if pay raised – QC’, p 7, The Age, Friday 9 July, 1965
- ‘The lordly young butcher hits out at ‘abos, The Herald Melbourne, Monday 2 October, 1972
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)
- Read All About It! Australian Newspapers 1803-1954 crossword activity sheet
- The Dunera Boys 70 Years On exhibition trail activity sheet (1,664 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
We no longer maintain the content of the exhibitions linked to this page.
- It is provided to assist you with your research only
- It may contain broken links or otherwise be incomplete
- It is no longer reviewed in terms of: accessibility, accuracy, or usability
- Bunyips (education material on archived site)
- Federation Gateway (archived site)
- National Treasures from Australia's Great Libraries (teacher material on archived site)
- Nora Heysen (education material on archived site)
- The Flower Hunter: Ellis Rowan (teacher material on archived site)
- Treasures from the World’s Great Libraries (teacher material on archived site)
Picture Australia slideshow trails
Picture Australia slideshow trails, including educational value statements for some developed in collaboration with The Le@rning Federation (TLF), including
- Advertising Australia [education value statement]
- Bushrangers
- Caring for the war wounded [education value statement]
- Cartoons and caricatures [education value statement]
- Colonial life in Art [education value statement]
- Depictions of the First Australians [education value statement]
- Depression Years
- Enlist now! [education value statement]
- Federation
- Gold rush
- Innovations and inventions [education value statement]
- Mawson in Antarctica [education value statement]
- Racing Australia [education value statement]
- Scenes from the Second World War [education value statement]
- See Australia! [education value statement]
- War prisoners and internees [education value statement]
- Whaling in the Southern Ocean [education value statement]
- Wild Weather [education value statement]
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
