Snapshots of Australian History: How do you represent modern Australian history in a museum timeline?

Topic: History, Studies of Society and Environment, English
Type: Curriculum materials
Years: 8 - 12

Key Curriculum Links:
Time, Continuity and Change; Culture; Natural and Social Systems; Investigation, Communication and Participation.

Investigates how the National Museum tells the story of Australia in a concise timeline of objects and labels, and encourages students to critically evaluate it. Students are also asked to create their own timeline of Australian history.

The student activities included in this unit cover the following topics:

• Activity 1: Brainstorming to create a list of events
  
• Activity 2: Identifying 'messages' in representations of history such as timelines
  
• Activity 3: Analysing the National Museum of Australia's timeline display as a representation of Australian History
  Activity 4: Researching events to include in a decade
  
• Activity 5: Creating a timeline representation of Australian History

If you are unable to download the resources below, please contact the Education section at education@nma.gov.au.