Resources for teachers and students
Heritage Victoria has a wealth of resources for use in primary and secondary classrooms.
Victoria's Framework of Historical Themes
Together with History Teachers' Association of Victoria (HTAV), Heritage Victoria has created two resources to assist teachers wanting to use the Framework of Historical Themes as a teaching resources in the classroom.
Victoria’s Framework of Historical Themes aims to 'recognise the richness of Victoria’s cultural and natural heritage’ by providing a tool for developing a wider appreciation of Victoria’s diverse Aboriginal, historical and natural histories and the rich heritage resources these have created.
Teacher's Guide
The Teacher's Guide provides a overview of the relevance of the Framework to history education. It includes curriculum links for each theme, with connections to both the VELS and upcoming Australian Curriculum.
Download Teacher's Guide (PDF 1.8 MB)
Lesson Starters and Activities
The Lesson Starters document provides case studies for each theme, together with suggested activities for the classroom. Each theme has a number of activities for Lower Primary, Upper Primary and Upper Secondary classes.
Download Lesson Starters for Themes 1-5 (PDF 1.4 MB)
Vic-Heritage App
The Vic-Heritage App is free, and has been developed for iPhone, iPod Touch and can also be used on iPad.
The app is perfect for bringing history to life and provides access to the history of significant buildings and places by searching or looking at what's 'near me'.
Students can go on our 'Recommended' audio tours, or create their own tours in their local area. The app is perfect or excursions, City Experience programs or regional trips as it features historic and architecturally significant places in Melbourne and regional Victoria.
Download from Apple's iTunes Store.
Victorian Goldfields
Discover our wealth of Victorian Goldfields resources. This page contains links to the eGold site and Melbourne Golden Mile, both of which have education activities and resources attached.
What house is that? Interactive
Navigate our interactive neighbourhood and learn about Victoria's nine main housing styles and the social history of our houses and suburbs.
What house is that? features an interactive streetscape with nine houses to be explored. Users can discover the individual features of each house, watch video interviews with architects, designers, historians and house owners, and read about the social history of the era.
The html version of the site is available here.
Culture Victoria
Heritage Victoria has developed six stories for Culture Victoria, which showcases stories from cultural agencies and collecting organisations around the state.Restoring St Nicholas, developed for Culture Victoria, is a short film about the restoration of a Greek Orthodox Church in Ballarat.
In 2009 the Greek Orthodox community of St Nicholas approached the City of Ballarat, Heritage Victoria and the trade school at the University of Ballarat to form a unique partnership to restore the church. This project allowed young apprentices to learn traditional trade skills and practice the technique of mixing and using lime mortar. The film documents the restoration project and features interviews with St Nicholas community members, tradespeople and apprentices.
View our Culture Victoria stories here.
Tours
Our walking tours make fantastic excursion activities. Have a look at our range of tours here.
