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Explore Australia's history at the National Library's Digital Classroom, aligned with the Australian Curriculum. With over 10 million items, we support diverse learning styles, fostering inquiry-based learning for students to analyse sources and draw conclusions about the Australian story.
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Detail of book cover for ‘Cooking Recipes You Will Like’, featuring a child with a wooden spoon and mixing bowl.

WH Comstock Co. Ltd, Cooking recipes you will like (detail), 1938, nla.gov.au/nla.obj-3068728610

Cooking with numbers

Module

This resource is aligned with the Australian Curriculum: Mathematics for Year 3 and 4 students. 

Mathematics
Year 3
Year 4
A spiderweb illuminated by the sun. The web is strung between the branches of a green leafy tree.

Peter Dombrovskis, Spiderweb detail, Cradle Mountain, Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park, Tasmania, 1986, nla.gov.au/nla.obj-151194004

Circle of life

Topic

Every living thing is part of a cycle. Plants and animals are born, they grow, they consume or produce, and they eventually die, making way for new life in their place. Without this cycle of life, ecosystems and the biosphere would not be able to survive.

Science
Year 4
Environment and biodiversity
Black and white photo of a young woman counting coins and notes at a desk.

Ern McQuillan & Mike McQuillan, Waltons city department store employee being trained for the introduction of decimal currency, Sydney, 17 January, 1966, nla.gov.au/nla.obj-138111466

Budgeting

Topic

Decimal currency (dollars and cents) was formally introduced in Australia on 14 February 1966.

Mathematics
Year 3
Year 4
A collage of green and purple plant matter, aluminium and perspex, lit from above by a warm, yellow internal light.

Jeannie Baker, Hidden Forest, Endpapers, 2000, nla.gov.au/nla.obj-971313378

Australian children’s literature

Module

This resource is aligned with the Australian Curriculum: English for Year 4 students. It has been developed to use National Library collection material as the basis for an exploration of children’s literature as part of the literature strand of the English learning area.

English
Year 4
Literature and writing
Cover of the book 'Australia's Weird Wild Wonderful Weather'

Stephanie Owen Reeder & Tania McCartney, Australia's wild weird wonderful weather, 2020, nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn8406703

Australia's wild weird wonderful weather

Module

This resource is aligned with the Australian Curriculum: Humanities and Social Sciences (Geography), and Science for Year 4, 5 and 6 students.

Humanities
Science
Year 4
Year 5
Year 6
Environment and biodiversity
Geography
Front cover of 'The school magazine' with a drawing of a man in a hat riding a galloping horse through a gate at night.

New South Wales. Department of Education, The Warrumbungle Mare. (1 September 1949). In The School Magazine of Literature for Our Boys and Girls, Vol. 34, no. 7 (Part 4, Class 6), nla.gov.au/nla.obj-827990456

Adventure

Topic

The 19th century was the age of the English language boys’ adventure story.

English
Year 4
Literature and writing

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