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Digital Classroom

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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The front page of To Ethnico Vema, a Greek-Australian newspaper

(2021). To ethnico vema : Greek national vema, nla.gov.au/nla.news-title1592

Modern Greek

Topic

While significant numbers of Greek migrants arrived during the gold rush, the greatest numbers arrived in the years between World War II and the 1970s.

Languages
Year 7
Year 8
Year 9
Year 10
Languages
A document showing which household items should be placed in which garbage bin. The list is sorted alphabetically and each item has a yellow, green, or red coloured square, indicating which bin it should go in. Red for trash, yellow for recycling and green for greenwaste. The list is written in Turkish

Mildura (Vic. : Rural City). Council. & Mildura (Vic. : Rural City). Council, issuing body. (2020). HANGİ KOVALAR? : Kovalarınızı kullanmak için Kılavuz, nla.gov.au/nla.obj-2963507733

Turkish

Topic

Migration to Australia from Turkey prior to the twentieth century was minimal.

Languages
Year 7
Year 8
Year 9
Year 10
Languages
Black and white photo of Cathy Freeman carrying Australian and Indigenous flags with a cameraman filming alongside her

Melanie Louise Collins, Cathy Freeman, Commonwealth Games, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, 1994, nla.gov.au/nla.obj-145960092

Sporting heroes

Topic

Australians make heroes of their most famous sportsmen and women, with the cricketer Sir Donald Bradman, Olympian Cathy Freeman and the racehorse Phar Lap among the most celebrated figures in the Australian sporting scene.

Health
Year 7
Year 8
Year 9
Year 10
Sport and recreation
cartoon of a man gesturing to a diagram of the uranium atom

Stewart McCrae, "Of course, in the matter of uranium, it's a case of the atom splitting people!" [Nuclear physicist giving a lecture on the uranium atom], 1963, nla.gov.au/nla.obj-145842939

The use and influence of science

Module

This resource is aligned to the Australian Curriculum: Science for Year 9 students. It draws on the Library's Oral History and Folklore Collection, which has recorded the thoughts and stories of thousands of influential Australians from all disciplines.

Science
Year 9
Science and technology

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