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Students in the Our Voices, Our Choices onsite program
Onsite experience

Our Voices, Our Choices

Students engage in deep learning as they explore civic participation in a functioning democracy.

A group of visitors hold up their phones and film a performance with actors dressed as a chef, a hairdresser and a handyman inside King's Hall with a sign in the background that says The People's House.

Community guidelines

Two MoAD educators sit on the floor with a large metal storage box between them with a map and other objects inside.
Onsite experience

We Can Make a Difference

Students investigate the UN Rights of the Child and active citizenship through this authentic experience.

A cardboard installation of a wall with intersecting honeycomb shapes with words written in texta on them with slogans such as 'fight for democracy, love freedom'.

Activities and resources

Find activity sheets and resources for use in your classroom.

Edmund Barton's coatee before conservation
Video

The Barton coatee

Tells the story of the conservation of Sir Edmund Barton's coatee.

How to be Prime Minister and survive grade five school activity page.
PDF

How to be prime minister and survive grade five

Explore how a parliament works and how students can participate in democracy.

Sir Edmund Barton and Sir Isaac Isaacs' coatees
Video

Sir Edmund Barton and Sir Isaac Isaacs' coatees

Compare the symbols and kinds of clothing worn by historical figures.

Ming and Flo school activity page.
PDF

Ming and Flo

Explore significant women in our history.

The PM's Daughter school activity page.
PDF

The PM's daughter

Explore what qualities make a good leader and how young people can make positive change.

Sensational World of Civics What's an election podcast activity page.
Podcast

What's an election?

Explores preferential voting and federal elections.

The outside of Old Parliament House at night lit up with colourful projections.

What's on

Discover the exhibitions, events, tours and rooms of Old Parliament House.

Dress Code Empire images of Sir Edmund Bartons' coatee
Video

What do clothes symbolise?

What can clothes symbolise and what can they tell us about other times and people?