Schools & Teachers

Program resources

Have you booked or participated in an ACMI Education learning program? Here you'll find pre-visit information and materials as well as post-visit learning activities for workshops.

Scroll down to find information specific to your workshop booking. You'll find general visit information pages below also.

Workshops

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A wonderful adventure

Access pre-visit information and resource that includes script templates for your students

A wonderful adventure resources
A stop motion animation setup, featuring a laptop, webcam on a small tripod, as well as an animation set with an armature character, bus stop, and pre printed background

Advanced Animation

Access pre-visit information and post-visit resources for Advanced Animation.

Advanced animation resources
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Fairytales and fantasy

Read the pre-visit information for this workshop, then rewatch your students' performance, and delve further into fairytale narratives after the workshop

Fairytales and Fantasy | teacher resource
Students secondary filming camera 2160 x 1023

Film it

Read up on pre-visit information and access post-visit resources for ACMI's Film It workshop

Film it resources
An interactive fiction planning document is laid out in front of a laptop which features the same game story sketched out in a program called Twine.

Game stories

Read up on pre-visit information and access post-visit activity ideas for our Game Stories workshop

Game stories resources
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Junior Coders

Read up on pre-visit information for Junior Coders prior to your visit

Junior Coders resources
Secondary school green screen 2160 x 1023

Kids news

Read up on pre-visit information and access post-visit activities for Kids News

Kids news resources
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Light and shadow

Read up on pre-visit information and follow-up your Light and Shadow workshop with these classroom activities

Light and Shadow resources
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Mockumentary Filmmaking

Find out about lighting and interview and how to write your own mockumentary script

Mockumentary Filmmaking resources
Lego animation

Stop motion startup

Read up on pre-visit information and access post-visit activity ideas for Stop motion startup

Stop motion startup resources
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Text treasure and adventure game design

Read up on pre-visit information and access post-visit ideas to extend students' game projects back at school

Text treasure and adventure game design resources
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Top down animation

Read up on pre-visit information and keep the stop-motion journey rolling on with these classroom activity ideas

Top down animation resources

Other visit resources

Students gather around the acmi cuphead zoetrope

Learning resources for visit to The Story of the Moving Image

Browse resources to support a visit before, during and after a visit to The Story of the Moving Image exhibition. Includes animation trail, technology and change lesson plan, and more.

The Story of the Moving Image learning resources
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Game Worlds resource | Primary

A resource to complement a Primary school visit to ACMI's Game Worlds exhibition

Game Worlds resource | Primary
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Game Worlds resource | Secondary

Make the most our of your visit to Game Worlds with activities inspired by the exhibition's focus on the magic of videogame design

Game Worlds learning resource | Secondary
Kids in costumes participating in a green screen workshop at ACMI

General visit information for workshops and cinema programs

Have an upcoming visit to ACMI? Access information about meetings points and what to bring here:

School excursion info workshops films talks
Students walking into ACMI Fed Square entrance

General visit information for exhibition visits

Have an upcoming visit to an ACMI exhibition? Access information about meetings points and what to bring here:

School excursion information for exhibitions