Education resources
Re-view Education Resource
This education resource is designed for use for individual study and research to assist teachers and students with pre- visit preparation as an introduction to the exhibition and to develop post-visit activities.
Tradition & Transformation: Indigenous Art In the NGV Collection
Tradition and Transformation is a vibrant website about Australian Indigenous art that is filled with artworks, stories, photographs, maps and videos, as well as classroom activities and teacher resources.
Pictures of the Floating World: Create your story
Stories From Old Japan is a simple animation system that allows students to create stories using the characters and backgrounds of the Pictures of the Floating World.
Salvador Dalí Education Resource
This education resource, designed for teachers, and students in the Middle and Later Years, has been organised thematically to reveal the multiple practices and extraordinary imagination of Salvador Dalí.
John Brack Education Guide
This education resource has been designed for teachers of students in middle and later years. It includes questions and activities throughout each topic which can be adapted for younger studentsand contains information on the work of John Brack along with the artist's own statements and commentaries to help support and model student responses.
Light Years Education Guide
This education resource focuses on three themes: space travel, space allegories and science fictions, and altered perceptions. These themes are offered as starting points for viewing the exhibition, and for exploring the ideas and issues raised by the exhibition about art, photography, science and space.
Shared Sky Education Guide
This education resource has been designed for teachers to use with Middle years students. It explores the different and shared perspectives of the southern sky and investigates cultural experiences, the evolution of scientific observation and the complexity of Australia's histories.
Bugatti: Language activities for teachers and students of Italian
This education resource has been designed specifically for teachers and students of Italian. It aims to provide students with the opportunity to explore a range of vocabulary and phrases relating to the world of Bugatti. This includes furniture, sculpture and automobiles. It also contains information about the Bugatti family, maps and suggested pre and post visit activities.
NGV Water Trail Education Guide
This education resource explores issues
of sustainability and the relationship
between water and art. The information
and discussion points are suitable to use
with middle years students (VELS levels
4–6) and for a range of learning areas across
the curriculum.
The discussion points may be used before,
after or during your visit to the NGV
Water Trail at NGV International.
Rosalie Gascoigne Education Guide
This education resource has been designed for teachers, and Middle and Later Years students. It contains information about the life and work of Rosalie Gascoigne and suggested questions and activities that teachers are encouraged to adapt to the level and interests of their students.
Gallery Ark Education Resource
The resource aims to link art, science and thinking through the exploration of
works of art, with a focus on animals and interactions, within the environment,
with people and each other, to explore ethical principles in respect to animals,
and to assist students to develop values systems in response to animals.
Un paseo por el arte - Spanish Education Resource
This resource aims to allow students to experience the rich heritage of Spanish art and to realise its potential as a portal to illuminating and appreciating Spanish history and culture.
It is designed to complement a visit to the National Gallery of Victoria to experience at first hand iconic works of Spanish art.
Art Deco 1910–1939
This resource has been designed for students and teachers to explore the key themes of the Art Deco 1910–1939: Architecture and Design.
It contains an interactive map allowing participants to share and discuss examples of Art Deco architecture (interior and exterior) in their local area. It offers case studies and interactives of Art Deco archecture and design objects.
Lives and Times: A selection of works on tour from the VFLAA Collection
A National Gallery of Victoria Touring Exhibition through the Victorian Foundation for Living Australian Artists.
This resource has been designed for students and teachers to explore the key themes of the exhibition: Culture, Nature, Beliefs and Identity. It contains detailed information about selected artists and suggested questions and activities. It is suitable for VELS (Levels 4-6) and VCE Art and Studio Art.
Crossing Borders
This education resource has been designed for students and teachers to explore and discuss the challenging global questions and issues
of our time through the work of contemporary artists practising within the Commonwealth. It offers candid film interviews with the artists, reference
materials and learning activities specifically designed for studies of VCE Art, VCE Studio Arts, VCE Philosophy, International Baccalaureate Art and
Theory of Knowledge, and VELS Art and Thinking Processes.
Gordon Bennett
The range of artistic, cultural and social issues and ideas explored in the work of Gordon Bennett make the exhibition a valuable resource for exploring
questions and ideas in several areas of the Middle and Senior Years’ curriculum including the Visual Arts, English, History and Studies of society,
and Philosophy and the Thinking curriculum.
Guggenheim Collection: 1940s to Now
This education resource is for teachers and students. It offers reference materials and learning activities that you may wish to use before or after
you visit the Exhibition. This resource is primarily intended for Middle Years, VCE Art and Studio Art students.
Australian Impressionism
Australian Impressionism is a rich resource for students of all year levels and for a range of learning areas across the curriculum, including the
Visual Arts, History and English. Information in this education resource has been prepared for teachers and later year students.
Questions and activities are provided for all year levels.
Howard Arkley
This education resource has been designed for teachers and students. It includes detailed information about the artist Howard Arkley and his work,
an interactive activity designed to develop compositional skills and suggested activities and questions for exploring the exhibition.
Picasso: Love & War 1935 – 1945
This education resource is designed for teachers and students. It offers reference materials and classroom activities that you may wish to use
before you visit the exhibition.
Exiles and Emigrants: Epic Journeys to Australia in the Victorian Era
This resource is designed for teachers and students across both primary and secondary school to enable students to learn about and consider the
emigration experience during the 19th century and today.
The resource covers three key themes, leaving home, the journey and the new land, each with images, text and questions.
The Art of Zen
A study of Zen and its relationship to art can reveal rich rewards in a range of curriculum areas and insights into the philosophy and the practice
of meditation. Presented as a website, this education kit introduces students to the history of Zen and its impact on both Asian art and Western culture.
Henri Rousseau
Learn about the style and techniques of French artist Henri Rousseau with this extensive interactive. Use online, or download and install on your own system.
