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)
- The Life of Patrick White exhibition trail activity sheet (931kb)
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)
Trove resources for teachers
Trove lists with Educational Value Statements, developed by Education Services Australia.
- Advertising Australia
- Bushrangers
- Caring for the war wounded
- Cartoons and caricatures
- Colonial life in Art
- Depression Years
- Enlist now!
- Federation
- Gold rush
- Innovations and inventions
- Scenes from the Second World War
- See Australia!
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
