By Cath on 9 December, 2010
A display by Juliet Morelli, which won the Museum’s prize in the 2010 National History Challenge, will be exhibited in the Hall of the National Museum of Australia this summer. Read more >
Posted in Exhibition | Tagged children, Indigenous, museology, sport
By Cath on 10 November, 2010
Yay, I can now announce the winners of Drawing the Lines 2010. But first, to all the teachers and students who have participated: awesome effort, wonderful energy, fantastic results! And: a massive thank you to David Pope. Read more >
Posted in Exhibition, Inspiration | Tagged cartoons, competition
By Cath on 11 October, 2010
So far we have received 96 entries for our political cartooning competition, Drawing the Lines. We have a Flickr set for each category – years 4–6, 7–9 and 10–12 – and many of them are absolutely fantastic so do have a look. If you have a Flickr account, I urge you to leave some comments. [...] Read more >
Posted in Be involved | Tagged cartoons, competition
By Cath on 25 August, 2010
As mentioned in an earlier post about Yiwarra Kuju, this is the amazing multitouch table. Read more >
Posted in Exhibition, Inspiration | Tagged art, culture, history, Indigenous, interactive, multitouch, technology, Western Australia
By Cath on 18 August, 2010
Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route is a wonderful (and *free*) exhibition at the National Museum, well worth a visit for yourself and for students of any age. It’s about the history of the droving route through Western Australia but it’s also about what’s going on in Country now. For visitors to the exhibition, Education [...] Read more >
Posted in Be involved, Classroom resources, Exhibition | Tagged art, history, Indigenous, Western Australia
By Cath on 17 August, 2010
As we know, critical thinking is a vital set of skills for us all in the 21st century. But what exactly is it and how can we teach and learn it? Here’s a resource that looks useful (from Microsoft and the International Society for Technology in Education) – called Critical thinking in the classroom. Read more >
Posted in Classroom resources | Tagged critical thinking
By Cath on 10 August, 2010
In partnership with Ryebuck Media, the Museum now has a brand new website for the award-winning Australian History Mysteries series. A sample of the rich content is available for free, and schools can subscribe for $199 per year to have unlimited access to the full set of content, which currently includes 15 units of work [...] Read more >
Posted in Classroom resources | Tagged history, teaching
By Cath on 31 July, 2010
The National Film and Sound Archive recently surveyed teachers about their use of digital learning resources. I was interested in teachers’ freeform response to the question of what they would like cultural institutions to be ‘doing more of’. Read more >
Posted in Classroom resources, Inspiration | Tagged games, teaching
By Cath on 19 July, 2010
It seems the world is waking up to the creative power and passion of children. Recently I was introduced to The Ten Project, which involves kids around the age of ten in a process to design improvements for their city. Today I learned of a bigger, global competition aimed at the same age group. Design [...] Read more >
Posted in Be involved, Inspiration | Tagged children, competition, social innovation
By Cath on 5 July, 2010
As part of a recent project with Education Services Australia (ESA), the Museum has worked on a series of 34 photographs of Indigenous people and places by Herbert Basedow, a doctor, anthropologist and explorer who travelled extensively to central and northern Australia between 1903 and 1928. For each photograph, we have described the content in [...] Read more >
Posted in Classroom resources | Tagged Indigenous, photographs
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