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Online Education Resources
An abundance of free resources has been produced by the Library for use by teachers and students. They have been designed to link with the VELS and VCE curricula. They can be used in the classroom or as tools for professional development.
Curriculum & skills
ergo: research skills and resources online
Need support material to teach research and writing skills? Looking for primary and secondary source material? ergo is designed to build secondary students’ skills in research, critical thinking and writing. Features include:
- comprehensive, easy-to-follow guides to research, writing and study skills
- curriculum-focused primary and secondary source material, based on the Library's collections (over 500 digitised resources)
- section themes including crime, rights, landscape and colonial Melbourne
- drop-down notes that help students to assess resources by highlighting issues such as bias, language use and historical context
- video interviews with prominent authors, historians and artists
- education resources focused on critical literacy and image or document study
- tips on using the State Library.
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The Independent Type exhibition education resource
This downloadable PDF resource was produced for the Library's 2009 The Independent Type: Books and Writing in Victoria exhibition. It is suitable for students in Years 5-10. It contains an overview of the educational themes for discussion, ten classroom activities and a range of resources.
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The Medieval Imagination exhibition education resource
This education resource, available as a downloadable PDF, was designed to complement the Library's 2008 exhibition The Medieval Imagination: Illustrated Manuscripts from Cambridge, Australia and New Zealand. It provides an ongoing resource for learning about English, History or Arts units on medieval history, in particular medieval manuscripts, art traditions and book production. It is an ideal resource to use with a visit to the Library's permanent exhibition Mirror of the World: books and ideas, which includes some illuminated manuscripts. It includes classroom activities, resource sheets and references. It is aligned with VELS Level 5 requirements.
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Victorians on Vacation exhibition education kit
This education resource kit, available as a downloadable PDF, was produced for the Library's 2007-08 touring exhibition Victorians on Vacation and is available as an ongoing resource around the themes of holidays, travel and leisure. Using online material about vacations from the Library's collections, it provides in-depth, engaging VELS-supported activities for Years 3-10. It includes images for teachers and students to use as starting points for discussion and analysis.
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Books & reading
Inside a Dog website
As Groucho Marx said, 'Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.' Students can get in touch with the books and writers that matter on insideadog.com.au, Australia's leading website about books for teenagers. They can interact with the online writer-in-residence, share opinions, write book reviews, win stuff, sample new books, download podcasts and (in August-November) vote in the Inky Awards, Australia's first teenage-choice book awards. Inside a Dog is a project of the Centre for Youth Literature.
Visit Inside a Dog >
Read Alert
Read Alert is the Centre for Youth Literature’s blog. It’s the place to go for updates on CYL programs, news from the world of young adult literature, prize winners, debate and great book recommendations.
Visit Read Alert >
boys, blokes, books & bytes
This is an award-winning reading program for middle-years boys, developed by the Centre for Youth Literature. The blog highlights books for boys, with up-to-date information about what boys like to read. Or you can use it to tell the world about your own boys-and-books program.
Visit the boys, blokes, books & bytes blog >
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Other resources
Ned Kelly online resource
This online resource provides access to digitised images and background information about Ned Kelly’s life and death, including Kelly’s suit of armour, his death mask and the 'Jerilderie Letter'.
Visit the Ned Kelly online resource >
Burke and Wills – Terra Incognita
This site allows you to follow the Victorian Exploring Expedition's journey through the landscape of the Australian interior which was, at that time, unknown to Europeans ('terra incognita'), and to explore the Library's extensive archive of Burke and Wills-related material.
Visit Burke and Wills - Terra Incognita >
The Lazarus Diary
This resource provides digitised access to the 1850s diary of Samuel Lazarus, containing one of the few eyewitness accounts of the Eureka miners' uprising at Ballarat in December 1854.
Explore the Lazarus Diary >
Port Phillip Papers - online
Did you know that early Port Phillip Papers are freely available online for you and your students to access and read? These rare manuscripts are the earliest and most important documents relating to the European settlement of Victoria, including:
- John Batman's journal
- Edward Henty's journal
- the Melbourne and Geelong Deeds (Port Phillip Association)
- the Melbourne Advertiser
- William Buckley's Reminiscences.
Previously only available to a few, these unique and fragile documents can now be explored online by everyone, in the form of high-resolution digital images with interactive features. You can read the manuscripts page-by-page, compare original text with transcripts, and examine handwritten notes and sketches in detail using zoom and pan tools.
Explore the Port Phillip Papers online >
Education enewsletter
The Library’s Education Programs Unit sends out a free electronic newsletter each term, with updates on programs, services and events for teachers and students. To stay in touch with what's happening at the Library, please forward your email address (indicating primary or secondary) to learning@slv.vic.gov.au
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