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Ali Paterson 21347428 Working individually, using the timeline on the IWB as a starting point, now create a time line of gold in Australia – using ReadWriteThink easy timeline app on iPads. http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/timeline_2/ Include the data from the nugget sequencing activity as well as other important info found during research. This is an assessment task. The following texts should help with this: Timeline Australia Book 2 1855-1911 by Barrie Sheppard Western Australia 1829-1900 by George Finkel Going for Gold – the rush to be rich in old Australia by Five Mile Press The following sites will help with this: http://www.Australia.gov.au/about-australia/Australian-story/austn- goldrush http://www.australianhistory.org/gold Print out and put the timelines up on the classroom wall and remember to consult and add to these timelines throughout the unit. Compare present day to 1850’s goldfield life Incursion Kalgoorlie FIFO dad presentation of Life on the Goldfields 2014. Brainstorm as a class and prepare questions to ask. Audo record Q & A session and transcribe using transcribe app: https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/transcribe/id489482775?mt=8 Compare this description of the present day goldfields with one of the 1850’s primary sources from the collection of diaries and personal papers collection at the State Library of victoria: http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/our- collections/collection-strengths/australian-history/goldmining This is an assessment task. Good text sources of info: The perfect Metal, the gold rush period in Australia by Richard Butler How Gold shaped Australia by Melanie Guile The Gold Rushes – Milestones in Australian History by J & J Barwick Locate sources Early mining methods: http://www.skwirk.com/ http://www.skwirk.com/p-c_s-1_u-103_t-269_c-890/success-of-early- mining-methods/nsw/hsie/gold-/australian-mining early mining methods Excursion to the Perth Royal Mint http://www.perthmint.com.au/visit_the_mint_perth_mint_school_groups.aspx At the reconstructed prospectors campsite: draw a rough plan of the tent & artefacts so you can recreate a model of the campsite when back at school. Notes from the excursion worksheet should help you remember details http://www.perthmint.com.au//documents/Worksheet.pdf Who came to the gold fields and why? Where did they come from? Mine-A-Readers-Theater-Participation-Script-Theatre-Scripts- 16431 For 25 students with sounds effects that can be created by any extra studnets. Viewing Analysing Artworks of the gold rushes. Pictures found on http://www.anmm.gov.au/gold150/gold150.htm Or in the book Going for gold – the rush to be rich in old Australia by Five Mile Press Choose a picture, ask the questions: What is going on here? How do we know? Who is in the picture? Who is missing? What is the main message/theme /idea the picture is showing us? What is the picture useful for studying? (clothing, conditions, mining etc) Who drew/painted/took the picture? I believe its acauraate/not accurate because… Speaking and listening Each students will write and perform a short monologue in the character of a person from the gold rush era. Interactive site – Preparing for an surviving life on the goldfields: http://www.nma.gov.au/interactives/tfl/gold_rush_5- 6/index.html 1. Use the information on this site to help complete the monologue worksheet: Name, age, country of origin, name of gold town, date, family members, occupation, description of living conditions daily diet etc. Monolouge to last 2min. This is an assessment task. Incursion Kalgoorlie FIFO dad presentation of Life on the Goldfields 2014. Brainstorm as a class and prepare questions to ask. Audo record Q & A session and transcribe using transcribe app: https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/transcribe/id489482775?mt=8 Compare this description of the present day goldfields with one of the 1850’s primary sources from the collection of diaries and personal papers collection at the State Library of victoria: http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/our-collections/collection- strengths/australian-history/goldmining . Writing Create a newspaper for an Australian gold town. Use the newspaper clipping generator for each topic http://www.fodey.com/generators/newspaper/snippet.asp Newpaper must contain5 articles, topics 1, 3 & 6 are From the information gathered in the word search, colour in the countries on the world map where people during the Asutralian goldrush originated. Design a Victorian guidemap for a new arrival to the goldfields, showing the main mining centres and the connecting routes and details of where things are in a camp. Use these books or the web page listed for inspiration, & information: Meet Poppy by Gabrielle Wang Poppy at Summerhill by Gabrielle Wang Poppy and the Thief by Gabrielle Wang Poppy Comes home by Gabrielle Wang The Gold Seekers by Greg Bastian A Banner Bold by Nadia Wheatley Seams of gold by Christopher Cheng. Web site Life on the Goldfields: On the Road (use the link to travel arrangement) http://www.sovereignhill.australia.net/education/proj- reshtm#researchnotes Select Transport in the 1850’s for good info. This is an assessment task. Uses of gold Small group work – make a poster naming the properties and at least three modern uses for gold e.g jewellery, catalysts, reflective ability, electronics, medicine, dentistry, space craft. Find and print pictures from your search remembering to reference them properly. (See library unit on plagiarism and referencing from previous term) Sources: http://geology.com/minerals/gold/uses-of-gold.shtml http://goldresource.net/modern-uses-of-gold/ http://encyclopedia.kids.net.au/page/go/Gold http://www.kidsgeo.com/geology-for-kids/0029B-gold.php Mining methods Class will split into 4 groups to do a jigsaw activity to combine to create a manual of mining methods. Source for early mining methods: http://www.skwirk.com/p-c_s-1_u-103_t-269_c-890/success-of-early-mining- methods/nsw/hsie/gold-/australian-mining Source for current mining methods http://www.dmp.wa.gov.au/9771.aspx 1. Panning 2. Open cut mines 3. Underground mining 4. Extracting and refining Effect on the environment Watch the YouTube clip showing how the countryside now still shows the scars of gold mining http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=fg_x_NELYsU Aboriginal people used the bushland for years without harming the land – how did this change when the prospectors arrived – forests, dirty water etc.
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