Exhibition-related and standalone activities
Websites we host:
- Vrroom – easy access to archival records for teachers and students
- Mapping our Anzacs – find a World War I service record, add a note or photograph, create a tribute – and see the education kit
- Australia's Prime Ministers – Fast Facts, Meet a PM, Who's Who and how to find archival records
- Documenting a Democracy – our nation's birth certificates, their history and significance
- Uncommon Lives – a biographical series
Resources related to exhibitions:
- Shell-shocked – education kit – Part 1 (PDF 5mb) and Part 2 – using Mapping our Anzacs (PDF 1mb)
- Federation Gallery – teachers notes and an activity relating to the permanent display of our nation's birth certificates, part of Memory of a Nation
- Max Dupain on Assignment – education kit (850kb pdf)
- Just add Water – document studies for senior students
- Beacons by the Sea – lighthouse drawings and education kit
- It's a Dog's Life! – activity sheets, document studies and a game about animals in the Public Service
Audiovisual resources:
- australianscreen – the National Film and Sound Archive educational online resource of film and television recordings offers a selection of titles from the National Archives of Australia. Dating from the 1930s to the 1990s, topics include the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme, banking, military operations and the disappearance of Harold Holt.
