Learning resources

Resources for teachers and students are listed below, including links to PDFs, web pages, interactives and videos.

These syllabus-linked resources complement a museum visit by providing pre-visit and post-visit information and activities. Please note that certain resources were produced for use in conjunction with visits to past exhibitions.

PROGRAMS

Pre and post visit materials

Childsplay (PDF) at Vaucluse House

Rats: Convict tales (PDF) at Hyde Park Barracks Museum

Archaeology: From dig to display (Student Workbook: PDF) at Museum of Sydney

Archaeology: From dig to display (Sources & Activities: PDF) at Museum of Sydney

Home front: wartime Sydney 1939-45 at Museum of Sydney

ONLINE RESOURCES

CLIC resources

A Convict Story: CLIC interactive

Home Front: CLIC resource

Exhibition development: CLIC resource

HHT resources

A convict started a fire (Video)

A convict without socks (Video)

A day in the life of a convict

Bennelong

Bushrangers

Captain Arthur Phillip

Elizabeth Macarthur

Francis Greenway

Life then and now

The role of the Governor

Why were convicts transported to Australia?

VIDEOCONFERENCING

A convict story videoconferencing program

EXHIBITION-RELATED RESOURCES

Bridging Sydney (PDF) at Museum of Sydney

Built for the Bush: the green architecture of rural Australia Travelling exhibition

Home front: wartime Sydney 1939-45 - Commemorating war service: walking tour

Home front: wartime Sydney 1939-45 - Peace and the commemoration of war: video

Home front: wartime Sydney 1939-45 at Museum of Sydney

Martin Sharp Sydney Artist (PDF) at Museum of Sydney

Skint! Making do in the Great Depression (PDF) at Museum of Sydney