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Invite State Library into your classroom with our free and interactive workshops, live-streamed through Microsoft Teams. 

'Live at the Library' workshops are the perfect incursion for your class, providing your students with opportunities to explore extraordinary items from State Library's heritage collections and learn research strategies that will help them excel in their assessments. 

Students using OneSearch for research

'Research Strategies' workshop (Year 10 to 12)

Price: Free
Date: Monday – Friday (during school terms)
Time: You nominate a 50-minute time slot for your workshop

This interactive workshop empowers students with essential research skills, including crafting effective search queries, navigating State Library’s One Search catalogue, and accessing online resources such as ebooks, academic databases, and news archives. These skills will support the completion of internal research assessments or external exam tasks.

Students will also learn to critically evaluate sources to support the inclusion of diverse perspectives in their research inquiries, and develop media and information literacy skills that will equip them for academic achievement and lifelong success.

Workshop notes:

  • Teachers are to provide a research topic or copy of student assessment to assist with workshop delivery.
  • Students will need access to a laptop/computer to participate in this workshop.
  • Students will be asked to create a free State Library membership to maximise their experience and gain full access to the library’s resources.
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Using news for research - a media literacy workshop (Year 7 to 12 )
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History workshops

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Explore primary sources from the Ancient World (Year 7)
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Explore primary sources from the Medieval World (Year 8)
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Meet 'Charlie' - your AI guide to World War I (Year 9)
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WWII primary sources
Explore primary sources from World War II (Year 10)
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ANZAC Day
'Remembering our Anzacs' workshop (Year 4 to 9)
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'National Reconciliation Day' workshop (Year 4 to 6)
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Mabo Day workshop
'Mabo Day' workshop (Year 7 to 10)
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'Queensland Day' workshop (Year 4 to 9)
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Queensland Trivia Quiz
The Great Queensland Trivia Quiz - Round 2 (Year 4 to 9)
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Professional development for teachers in Term 1 and 2

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Teaching Queensland's Frontier History
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WWI primary sources
Teaching World War I using Queensland stories
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Teaching rights and freedoms for Queensland's First Nations people
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