Education in the classroom

How to create an exhibition in your classroom

Use these step by step instructions to help guide you and your students to create your own exhibition in your classroom or school.

First Nations

Measuring time

Engage with this interactive string activity to help your students visualise the length of time First Nations peoples have been in Australia.

Worksheets
Activity

Investigating objects

Make predictions about archeological sites and objects based on no historical context, and question your understanding and presumptions about our shared history.

Worksheets
Activity

Source analysis

Analyse historical sources and assess the evidence within them, using objects, diary entries and artworks from the Unsettled exhibition.

Activity

Cultural Fire is used in unison with the landscape

What is cultural burning?

Learn about the cultural burning program managed by the Bega Local Aboriginal Land Council and the benefits of cultural burning for Country.

Video

Learn how to play string games

Watch a series of short instructional videos to help you play and learn kamai, or string games.

Worksheets
Videos

Dinosaurs and palaeontology

Make your own dino-rama

Bring the dinosaurs back to life by making your own dino-rama at home or in the classroom!

What are some Australian dinosaurs?

Download a series of posters and learn about the dinosaurs that once roamed Australia.

Learn how to classify fossils

Learn the difference between impression, mineralised and trace fossils and begin to classify your specimens.

How are dinosaur fossils formed?

Watch this animation to understand how dinosaurs became fossils over time.

Children and families
Primary school

Investigating the Winton Trackway

Become a palaeontologist and investigate fossilised dinosaur footprints.

Impression fossil activity – Pressing some leaves into clay

Make your own impression fossil

Learn how to make your own impression fossil at home or in the classroom.

University of Sydney Sleek Geeks Science Eureka Prize Primary finalist, Charlotte L., PLC Sydney, NSW

How are cow burps contributing to climate change?

In this Sleek Geeks Science video, Charlotte explains how methane from the livestock industry is contributing to the damaging affects of climate change.

What is our gas problem?

Watch a short animation that explains what greenhouses gases are, where they come from and why they can be a big problem.

How can sea cucumbers help save coral reefs?

Find out how sea cucumbers might counter ocean acidification!

Jonathan D. - Finalist, 2021 University of Sydney Sleek Geeks Science Eureka Prize — Secondary

What is rewilding?

In this video, created by Jonathan for the Sleek Geeks Science Eureka Prize, learn about the process of 'rewilding' and the importance of biodiversity to protecting our planet.

Zara M. - Finalist, 2021 University of Sydney Sleek Geeks Science Eureka Prize — Primary

What is coral bleaching?

In this video, created by Zara for the Sleek Geeks Science Eureka Prize, you can learn what coral bleaching is, how it is affecting our coral reefs and what we can do about it.

Impacts of climate change on the Great Barrier Reef

Watch Dr Anne Hoggett and Dr Lyle Vail share their observations of recent bleaching and coral recovery around Lizard Island.

Capturing Climate Change for educators

Engage with our online exhibition Capturing Climate Change and discuss the causes and effects of, and solutions to, climate change.

Climate change – causes, impacts and solutions

Watch a series of videos that discuss the causes and impacts of, and solutions to climate change, from the perspectives of different professionals and community members.

Australian animals and their adaptations

University of Sydney Sleek Geeks Science Eureka Prizes Secondary finalist, Marissa C., Somerville House, Qld

Sex change in clownfish

In this Sleek Geeks Science video, Marissa explains the sex change that clownfish can go through!

University of Sydney Sleek Geeks Science Eureka Prize Primary finalist, Genevieve S., Bucasia State School, Qld

What is an adaptation?

How do adaptations help animals survive in their environment?

The features of penguins

In this video, created by Year 4 students Caitlyn and Amelia for the Sleek Geeks Science Eureka Prize, you can learn about how penguins' features help them survive in the environment.

Children and families
Primary school

What are some Australian habitats?

Explore a variety of Australian habitats and use the habitat illustrations for activities within your class.

Make your own frog mask

Find out about the features of frogs that help them survive and make your very own frog mask.

Secondary school
Tertiary
Stage 6 Biology

The evolution of the platypus

Learn about the different platypus fossils that have been discovered in Australia and South America and compare their features.

Whales find-a-word

What can you discover about whales? Complete our find-a-word and dot-to-dot activities from the Whales | Tohorā exhibition to learn more about these beautiful mammals.

Children and families
Primary school
Secondary school

Make your own pocket volcano

Watch this video to learn what happens inside a volcano just before it erupts and make your own pocket volcano in the classroom or at home!

Learn how to classify rocks

Can you tell the difference between sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic rocks? Use this series of posters to learn how to classify rocks and tell the difference between them!

Jigsaw Earth

Fit the Earth back together and get to know the tectonic plates, natural disasters and continental drift of our planet with this downloadable puzzle.

Leaf litter dichotomous key

Go exploring through your local leaf litter and use this dichotomous key to identify invertebrates you find!

Learn how to classify spiders

What's the difference between a burrower, weaver and hunter? Sort pictures of spiders into these three groups and investigate the differences between spider species.

Charles Darwin's first diagram of an evolutionary tree

Charles Darwin and the antlion

Read excerpts from Charles Darwin's diary when he was in Australia and learn about some of his first insights into evolution by natural selection.

Spider crossword

Learn the scientific names related to spiders, their classification and their adaptations.

Make your own butterfly envelope

Make your own butterfly envelope for your newly collected and identified species.

Make your own climbing spider

Learn about the adaptations of the different groups of spiders – hunters, weavers and burrowers – then colour in and cut out a St Andrew's Cross Spider and make it climb up a piece of string!

The features of spiders

Use the downloadable spider diagram to label the main features and body parts of a spider and discuss their functions.

A virtual visit behind the scenes in Palaeontology

Explore some of the amazing galleries in virtual reality or 360 and go behind the scenes to meet some of our experts and learn about fossils, classification and adaptations.