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• TLF-IDM009281

This is a historical map of Perth, Australia, published c1939, showing the extent of settlement around Perth in the years after Federation in 1901 and before World War II. Students use the spatial visualisation tool, SpatialGenie, to explore this map as spatial data. They can investigate this map alone or add other map ...

• TLF-IDM009289

This is a historical map of Adelaide, published c1895-97, showing north and south of the Torrens River. Students use the spatial visualisation tool, SpatialGenie, to explore this map as spatial data. They can investigate this map alone or add other map layers. Students use shape tools to measure area and distance, and they ...

• TLF-IDM015426

What is the best thing about living on a farm out in the countryside? What is the worst? How does where you live make you the person you are today? Listen to Jane Gould from Boort, finalist of the 2012 Heywire storytelling competition for young people, talk of the connectedness she feels to the land on which she lives.

• TLF-IDM006975

This is a collection comprising five sets of 19th-century photographs of China and the Chinese people selected from photographs taken by John Thomson, the first Western photographer to travel widely throughout China. The sets are organised around five topics: town; country; people; ethnicities; and the monumental past. ...

• TLF-IDM008348

This clip is an excerpt from the 2007 film 'Pipe dreams' (55 min), the second episode of a three-part series entitled 'Constructing Australia'. Over black-and-white photographs and dramatised video of the key players, a narrator describes the significant challenges of supplying water to the WA goldfields in the late 19th ...

• TLF-IDM017413

Stunning beaches and tourist-filled coastal towns are some of Australia's most important assets. But how do seasonal fluctuations in population affect these coastal communities? This clip focuses on a new push by the National Sea Change Taskforce to have visitor numbers properly counted in the next census, so that development ...

• TLF-IDL203

Look at water cycles in both city and country areas. For each area, assemble a jigsaw puzzle illustrating the water cycle. Arrange components such as rainfall, runoff, collection, storage, pumping, treatment, household usage and wastewater disposal. Follow instructions to make cardboard versions of the jigsaws.

• TLF-IDR11975

This is a collection of 25 digital curriculum resources focusing on the foundation of Melbourne and its development in the colonial era. It is organised into five categories - the foundation of Melbourne; Melbourne in the late 1830s and 1840s; Melbourne in the 1850s and 1860s; Melbourne from 1870 to 1900; and maps showing ...

• TLF-IDR5355

This is a hand-coloured map of Australia, printed between about 1859 and 1861, showing boundaries for what were then the colonies of Western Australia, South Australia, New South Wales and Victoria. There is an area labelled 'North Australia', which includes the present-day Northern Territory and Queensland within the same ...

• TLF-IDR5690

This is a clip taken from the beginning of an item about an abandoned uranium-mining town in South Australia that featured in the weekly episode of the black-and-white newsreel Cinesound Review released to cinemas on 21 June 1962. The clip opens with the title screen, 'Radium Hill. / AUSTRALIA'S FIRST ATOM AGE GHOST TOWN ...