History learning resources

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

Early Stage 1 and Stage 1

Engraving activity

Make your own treasure box

Design your own treasure chest, cut it out and put your favourite treasures inside.

Children and families
Early years
Primary school
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Children exploring the interactive displays in 200 Treasures of the Australian Museum in the Westpac Long Gallery.

Treasures conversation starters

What is your favourite treasure? Use our Treasures conversation starters for fun suggestions and prompts for how to engage with this exhibition.

Self-led
All ages
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Stage 2 and Stage 3

Spiders exhibition at Questacon (12)

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.

Primary school
Secondary school
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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
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Unsettled exhibition

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.

Presentations
Worksheets
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Primary Schools students 200 treasures storytelling session.

Treasures exhibition insights

The Treasures exhibition insights will help your students understand and engage with some of the most-valued objects from the Australian Museum’s collections

Primary school
Secondary school
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Stage 4 and Stage 5

Ramses the Great and the Gold of the Pharaohs exhibition

Ramses: An ancient adventure unit

Follow this unit to engage with the temporary Ancient Egypt exhibition, Ramses the Great & the Gold of the Pharaohs.

Worksheets
Activities
Videos
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klakul (Spears)

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
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Source analysis

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

Activity
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Stage 6

Ramses the Great and the Gold of the Pharaohs

Ramses learning journey: New Kingdom Egypt - Amenhotep III to the Death of Ramesses II

Follow this learning journey to engage with the new temporary Ancient Egypt exhibition, Ramses & the Gold of the Pharaohs.

Stage 6 Ancient History
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Ramses & the Gold of the Pharaohs Exhibition shots by James Alcock

Ramses learning journey: The Representation of the Ancient Past and the Role of Museums

Follow this learning journey to engage with the new temporary Ancient Egypt exhibition, Ramses & the Gold of the Pharaohs.

Stage 6 Preliminary Couse: Ancient History
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Ramses the Great and the Gold of the Pharaohs exhibition.

Ramses: New Kingdom Egypt society during the Ramesside period unit

Follow this unit to engage with the temporary Ancient Egypt exhibition, Ramses the Great & the Gold of the Pharaohs.

Stage 6 Ancient History
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