Digital learning resources
Our curriculum-aligned digital learning resources are easy to access anytime from wherever you are in Australia.
Digital learning resources
Our curriculum-aligned digital learning resources are easy to access anytime from wherever you are in Australia.
These resources will enrich your teaching and learning programs across a range of key learning areas.
Lights, camera, archive
Take your students behind the scenes at the NFSA to learn about how media is collected, preserved and shared at Australia’s national audiovisual archive.
Join us for this 20-minute pre-recorded program as we lift the curtain on the work of the NFSA and meet the passionate people behind the scenes. We help students to think critically about Australia’s past, the power of storytelling and the role of audiovisual media in shaping national identity.
Year levels: 3-9
Go to: Lights, camera, archiveTravel back to 1956, when television first arrived in Australia.
In this 30-minute pre-recorded program, we explore how watching TV in the past compares to today. Students investigate how people consumed TV shows in the past and consider how viewing habits and television technologies have changed since television arrived in Australia in 1956. There are opportunities to participate in drawing and discussion activities consider and imagine life as a child growing up in the early days of Australian TV.
Year levels: K-6
Go to: TV then and nowCarriberrie
Take an immersive 360-degree virtual reality journey across Australia.
From the red earth of Central Australia to the iconic Sydney Opera House, Carriberrie celebrates the diversity of First Nations song, dance and performance.
Produced by RedDogs VR, Carriberrie won the awards for Best Program Website and Best in Show: Multimedia at the 2021 Museums Australasia Multimedia and Publication Design Awards.
Go to: Carriberrie12 Canoes
The homeland of the Yolngu people is the Arafura Swamp of north-central Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory.
The 12 Canoes website showcases 12 short, linked audiovisual pieces, plus extras, that together paint a compelling portrait of the history, culture and place of the Yolngu people.
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Still Our Country continues this journey, giving us insights that are bold, vivid, and deeply grounded in culture.
Go to: 12 CanoesFilm Australia Collection
The NFSA is the proud custodian of the Film Australia Collection, preserving and providing access to the nation’s documentary record – our collective memory.
The collection covers Australian national and state curriculum areas including History, The Arts, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures and Society and Culture.
A selection of documentary titles from the NFSA’s Film Australia Collection is available on YouTube and in partnership with ClickView and Kanopy.
Subscribe to NFSA: Film Australia on YouTubeJoin the NFSA learning community. Keep up to date with opportunities to engage your students with the national audiovisual collection in the classroom and beyond.