The Geelong Gallery offers resources to support gallery and classroom activities. All resources are tailored to student learning outcomes, responding to the Victorian Essential Learning Standards and the VCE curriculum.
1. Education kits
The Education kits provide information for teachers to prepare their students for visits to the Gallery as well as providing information for classroom activities following a visit.
Geelong Gallery collection
The images and notes for key works in the Gallery’s collection. Some artworks reproduced in the kit may not be on display at any given time, so please check with the Gallery prior to your visit.
This kit contains:
Thirteen artists sheets – Eugène von Guérard; Louis Buvelot and Julian Ashton; Frederick McCubbin and Alexander Stanhope Forbes; Edwin Long and Johann Victor Kraemer; Roland Wakelin and Grace Cossington Smith; Danila Vassilieff and Noel Counihan; John Brack and Charles Blackman; Ian Burn and Sydney Ball; Suzanne Forsyth-Hatch and Margaret Dodd; Dick Watkins and Lesley Dumbrell; Peter Booth and Maria Kozic; Peter Tyndall and John Nixon; Sally Smart and Jenny Watson.
Booklet – Geelong’s early history through art: the story of Geelong’s development as depicted by colonial artists.
2. Learning Boxes
These resources are now available for loan to your school. They are available for a period of one week and are free to schools. Bookings are essential and can be made by telephoning the Gallery.
The Buckley Box
Explore the social and cultural heritage of the Wathaurong and their relationship with William Buckley. Objects of trade, letters of the time, early maps, tools and food sources help students to appreciate the Wathaurong traditions and the impact of white settlement.
Myths and Rituals Box
The contents of this box are an ideal opportunity to introduce students to the richness of ideas and traditions that exist outside Western culture. They were selected to challenge students and their often superficial understandings of what is valuable, beautiful and functional. The intention is to inspire classroom discussion and activities that embrace the use of more unusual forms, decoration and materials.
Robert Dowling - son of Empire Education Kit
Click here to learn more about the Robert Dowling - son of Empire exhibition and for the Education Kit.