Arts Victoria coordinates this collection of sources from selested cultural organisations. Themes include: A Diverse State, Indigenous Culture, Immigrants & Emigrants, Land & Ecology, Built Environment, Sporting Life Creative Life
National Library of Australia presents a portal to collections from around the nation. Find and get over 241,958,863 Australian and online resources:
books, images, historic newspapers, maps, music, archives and more.
Over 45 individual timeline screens are included in this section, each with audio commentary, images, video and supporting documents. Listen to famous Australians who have contributed to and commented upon key issues in the development of Australia's mult
Presented by the Museum of Australian Democracy. "Getting it Together: From Colonies to Federation is a resource for teachers in the middle years classroom (years 5 to 8). A series of 7 packages, Getting it Together explores each state's unique journey to
Museum of Australian Democracy. This is a source for some fairly heavy weigh parliamentary documents including "Governor La Trobe's Instructions, 11 September 1839" and "Chinese Immigration Act 1855 (Vic)"
These lessons from the UK National Archives provide student questions focussing on some fantastic primary sources. Check out Empire and Industry 1750 - 1850 and Victorians 1850 - 1901 for issues relating to Making a Better World. Make sure you hit the Sho
This site is provided by the University of Massachusets. While being fairly academic, it contains links to primary sources in the Resources section and an fantastic image gallery.
This is a huge site with practical classroom activities, links to good websites, interactives and lessons specific to the UK History curriculum. Some of the offerings are perfect for the Australian curriculum. Well catagorised and easily searched.
This is a fantastic site presented by the British museum for students. It is very appropriate for year 7s. The site is broken into topics such as Mummification, Egyptian Life, Pyramids etc. Each topic has a home page, a story using primary sources, an explore page. and a challenge
A wealth of background material for teachers and on-line activities for students, this site covers Egypt, Rome, Greece and other ancient civilizations.