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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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A comic panel on yellowed newspaper paper. A large well-dressed man wearing a top hat that says 'Capital' is pushing a wheelbarrow marked 'Federal Capital' which is full of material marked 'Unearned increments'. He is pushing it towards a a man dressed in workwear wearing a hat marked 'NSW Elector'. The title below the comic reads 'A One-sided Affair'

(1880) The Bulletin, nla.gov.au/nla.obj-683703369

Media and information literacy

Module 

A resource for educators teaching digital and/or media literacy in their classrooms. 

English
Languages
Mathematics
Teachers
Communications and media
The front page of the Tribune newspaper. The headline reads 'USA FORCED TO DROP CUBA INVASION'. There is a black and white photograph of 5 people holding protest signs.

Tribune (Sydney, NSW: 1939–1991), 31 October 1962, p. 1, nla.gov.au/nla.news-page25610837

Print media: The Cuban Missile Crisis

Topic

Under legal deposit provisions of the Copyright Act (1968), one copy of everything that is published in Australia must be lodged with the National Library of Australia. As a result, the Library’s collection holds a vast array of Australia’s printed news media.

English
Languages
Mathematics
Teachers
Communications and media
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
stone carvings, two rows of Buddhas

Yves Coffin, [Banteay Kdei, pediment], nla.gov.au/nla.obj-140372605

The rise of Angkor and the Khmer Empire

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The Khmer Empire has its beginnings somewhere in the late eighth century when Jayavarman II (c. 770–835) is said to have returned to Chenla from exile in Java.

Humanities
Year 8
Asia-Pacific
World cultures and history

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