Learning resources

A QVMAG team member leads a class activity about patterns at Science Week 2025.

Image: A QVMAG team member leads a class activity at Science Week 2025. Photo: QVMAG.

Make the most of your visit with our exhibition-linked learning resources.

Our learning resources are designed to support Tasmanian schools with engaging, curriculum-based materials that bring learning to life beyond the classroom. Developed to align with key learning areas, these resources help educators deepen student understanding through hands-on activities, critical thinking prompts and meaningful connections to museum collections and exhibitions.

In addition to onsite learning tools, QVMAG also offers virtual tours – enabling students to explore exhibitions and collections from anywhere, anytime. These digital experiences provide flexible access for schools across Tasmania, supporting inclusive learning opportunities and allowing teachers to extend museum engagement before, during and after a visit.

Learning resources

The First Tasmanians: our story – Teacher's Resource

The First Tasmanians: Our Story learning resource invites students to explore the rich history, culture and continuing stories of Tasmanian Aboriginal people. Students can participate through engaging classroom activities and worksheets designed for before, during and after a visit to the onsite exhibition at the Art Gallery at Royal Park.

Encouraging observation, discussion and reflection, the resource supports deeper connections with the exhibition and the stories it shares.

Click here to download The First Tasmanians teacher's resource(PDF, 4MB)
Click here to download The First Tasmanians activities and worksheets(PDF, 353KB)

Tasmanian Connections – Discovery Trail

The Tasmanian Connections Discovery Trail is a fun and interactive way for children to explore QVMAG’s natural science and history collections at the Museum at Inveresk.

Through observation, drawing, questions and creative challenges, young visitors are encouraged to engage closely with objects and stories throughout the gallery — from dinosaurs and Tasmanian wildlife to transport, archaeology and geological history.

Perfect for curious minds, the trail transforms a museum visit into an exciting hands-on adventure.

Click here to download the Tasmanian Connections – Discovery Trail(PDF, 2MB)

Tasmanian Connections – Animal Life Patterns

The Tasmanian Connections: Animal Life Patterns activity invites children to discover the fascinating similarities and differences shared across the animal world. Through observation-based challenges and prompts, students explore habitats, diets, physical features and behaviours while investigating the Tasmanian Connections gallery at the Museum at Inveresk.

Encouraging critical thinking and curiosity, the resource helps young learners uncover patterns in nature and better understand how animals adapt to the world around them.

Click here to download the Tasmanian Connections – Animal Life Patterns worksheet(PDF, 764KB)

BUGS – Trash Bugs

Get creative with Trash Bugs — a fun hands-on activity inspired by the fascinating Green Lacewing larva, also known as the “trash bug”. These tiny insects cleverly disguise themselves with leaves, bark and garden debris to camouflage from predators.

Using recycled and found materials, children are invited to build their own bug creations — either crafting a real insect or inventing an entirely new species. Along the way, young makers can explore ideas around camouflage, habitats, adaptation and imaginative design while turning everyday “trash” into something unexpected. 

Click here to download the Trash Bugs worksheet(PDF, 685KB)

Art activity – Exploring and responding

Exploring and Responding is a creative education resource designed to help children engage with art through curiosity, imagination and critical thinking.

Encouraging students to look closely, ask questions and share their own interpretations, the resource supports young learners to explore artworks from different perspectives while building confidence in expressing their ideas and responses.

Click here to download the Exploring and Responding activity resource(PDF, 428KB)

Art activity – Drawing from intuition

Interactions with Art: Drawing from Intuition is a workbook that invites learners to slow down, look closely and respond to art through intuition, sensation and imagination. The resource encourages students to move beyond purely analytical thinking and explore how artworks can be understood through various responses.

Through a series of guided exercises, students are encouraged to engage with artworks as active participants in conversation — responding not only with their minds, but with their senses, instincts and creative intuition.

Click this link to download the Drawing from intution – Art activity book(PDF, 9MB)
Click this link to download the Drawing from intuition – Curriculum links PDF(PDF, 37KB)

 

 

Virtual tours

Guan Di Temple – Virtual Tour

Virtual Tour: Explore the Guan Di Temple

Take a virtual tour of the historic Guan Di Temple in the Art Gallery at Royal Park and exhibition collection objects on display. 

Gentle Protagonist: Art of Michael McWilliams – Virtual Tour

Virtual Tour: Explore this exhibition online

Even though this exhibition has closed, you can still take a virtual tour of Gentle Protagonist: Art of Michael McWilliams—the first-ever public exhibition of the works of much-loved Tasmanian artist, Michael McWilliams. 

 

 

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