First Nations learning resources

Access a suite of worksheets, units and activities focused on our First Nations exhibitions and collections.

Early Stage 1 and Stage 1

Learn how to play string games

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

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Stage 2 and Stage 3

How we are Unsettled: Unit of work

Access our smartboard-ready unit of work to engage in the themes, stories and artworks of Unsettled, with embedded activities, videos and worksheets.

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Barka: The Forgotten River learning journey

Follow this learning journey to deepen your knowledge and understanding of the Barka (Darling River).

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Videos

Wansolmoana conversation starters

Use our Wansolmoana conversation starters for fun suggestions and prompts for how to engage with this exhibition.

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Provocations

Measuring time

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

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Investigating objects

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

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Storyboat Installation from Unsettled exhibition

Unsettled learning journey: Primary

Follow our learning journey to engage with the Australian Museum’s exhibition Unsettled and explore the ways we understand, remember and acknowledge our shared past in Australia.

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Power through poetry

Be inspired by the poems of First Nations artists, then use the activity book prompts and activities to create your own poems.

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Activity

Garrigarrang conversation starters

Use our Garrigarrang conversation starters for fun suggestions and prompts for how to engage with this exhibition.

Worksheets
Provocations

Unsettled learning journey: Art focus

Follow this learning journey to engage with the themes of Unsettled and learn about the artworks and artists that make up the exhibition.

Activities

Source analysis

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

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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.

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Unsettled learning journey: History focus

Follow our learning journey to engage with the themes of Unsettled and critically examine our shared history through the objects, sources and evidence in the exhibition.

Activities