Research skills webinar for secondary students
Whether your students are keen to prepare for Seriously Social’s Great Student Debate, or ready to delve into Trove for incredible primary source research, this webinar was designed get your students thinking and ready to research.
Students had the opportunity to observe objects closely via the screen, interact using Q&A, and were invited to suggest search terms for navigating our catalogue.
The end of the session included an invitation to access Trove to continue researching the 2025 debate topic ‘That Australian History unites us’.
This program took place over Zoom and cameras were hidden. Attendees were able to contribute ideas and questions to the conversation by typing into the Q&A and chat function.
This program was targeted towards students in senior secondary school, and held in partnership with Seriously Social, an initiative of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, for Social Sciences Week 2025.
A recording of the session will be made available soon.
The Opalgate Foundation supported this webinar as part of the National Library's Lifelong Learning initiative.

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