History learning resources

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

Early Stage 1 and Stage 1

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

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

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

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

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

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

Theban mummified human remains coffin detail

200 Treasures unit

Follow this unit to deepen your knowledge and understanding of significant treasures from around the world.

History, Geography, English
Stages 1–3

Scott Sisters, original watercolour by Harriet Scott

The Art of the Scott sisters: Secondary drawing unit

Follow this drawing unit to deepen your understanding of colonial scientific illustrations and the significance of the art to current entomologists.

Visual Art
Stage 4 and 5

Bloodsuckers: Nature's Vampires

Follow this English and History unit to explore the new exhibition Bloodsuckers: Nature's Vampires at the Australian Museum.

History Elective
English
Stage 5

History and Heritage

Follow this History unit to deepen your knowledge and understanding of the relationship between history and heritage.

History Elective
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

Unsettled: History-focus unit

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

Activities