By Cath on 14 February, 2011
Teaching or learning about Indigenous culture and history? See the following clips, produced during development of the exhibition Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route. Read more >
Posted in Classroom resources | Tagged art, children, culture, history, Indigenous, video
By David on 5 October, 2010
Trish Albert is Senior Indigenous Education Officer at the National Museum. Having worked for many months researching and writing the (wonderful) Plenty Stories, she was thrilled to hear that the series won a 2010 Australian Publishers Association award for excellence in educational publishing. First Australians: Plenty Stories (that’s its full name) is a joint winner [...] Read more >
Posted in Classroom resources | Tagged award, Indigenous, storytelling
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 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
By Cath on 18 June, 2010
Hello world! This is a new space for National Museum educators to communicate directly with the outside world. It replaces our inaugural blog, and will enable us to develop a more interesting and engaging online presence. Any reader’s thoughts on what kinds of material to include here are welcome. The comments boxes are good for [...] Read more >
Posted in Classroom resources | Tagged meta
By Cath on 13 December, 2009
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post. Read more >
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