Talking About Life on the Goldfields
Students work in groups to create speech balloons for downloaded pictures  relating to life on the goldfields.

The Australian Gold Rush

Unit plan - Eureka! Gold in Victoria

Australian UNITS (Denise) -

Australian-Gold-Rush - 4 - LESSON PLANS
The following pages include the eight lesson plans that make up the unit of work based upon the Australian gold rush.

Gold! Gold! Gold!

The A-Z of Treasures from the Earth

Lesson Plans, Units, Activities

Gold Rush - ABC
Gold Rush. Key Learning. Students will develop a deeper understanding of gold as a resource and the history of gold mining in. Australia.

 

Gold Down Under

Life on the Goldfields

History Australian Gold Rush - Primary Resources - Page 1 - Twinkl
Download and use, high quality printable Australian Gold Rush teaching resources - created for teachers, by teachers! Professional History teaching resources .

Australia Games, Activities,Stories for Kids

Gold Rush game | National Museum of Australia
Play the Gold Rush game for a great introduction to the Australian goldfields

Free Clip Art about Australia

Australian Gold Rush (info)

Why is what happened at Eureka in 1854 so important?

MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES & BLOOM’S TAXONOMY

UNIT OF WORK ……. GOLD

Multiple Intelligences	Bloom’s Taxonomy: Six Thinking Levels
	Knowing	Understanding	Applying	Analysing	Creating	Evaluating
Verbal I enjoy reading, writing & speaking	List a variety of ‘fast facts’ on Gold. Research and record information on fossicking and mining methods	Outline one aspect of the gold rush in the form of an information report	Prepare a report on forms of gold panning with and without water (dry panning)	Investigate more unusual forms of Gold Mining	Predict what would have happen if there were no rules or licences in the Gold Fields	Form teams and conduct a debate on a topical gold issue.
Mathematical I enjoy working with numbers & science	Write a timeline of events – starting at the first gold rush in Australia and the main events	Describe (in map form) a gold field. Include gold fields, township, mining areas	Calculate the value of gold nuggets found during the gold rush to today’s value.	Compare the’ gold rush’ population explosion in graph form	Improve/change Gold Licences and Policing – write down your plan	Evaluate the value of gold as a major change in our History
Visual I enjoy painting drawing & visualising	Describe living in the Goldfields. Draw and colour picture of homes, clothes - make paper models	Draw a front, side and top view of gold panning/fossicking equipment	Construct a Gold Licence, make it look authentic by using old fashioned writing and yellow/ faded paper.	Identify something fromtoday’s technology that would have helped locate gold in the 1850’s.             Draw it	Design jewellery pieces that show the use of gold.	Choose a favourite part of the gold unit and comment on it
Kinaesthetic I enjoy doing hands-on activities	Game – Gold Bingo Trivial Pursuit Celebrity Heads	Match the gold townships from the atlas to the map of Australia	Construct a gold fossicking/ mining model or diorama.	Examine methods of gold mining – create a model out of clay and natural materials	Create a rap dance showing movements of panning/fossicker to music.	Create a compute generated table (to make into a game board)
Musical / Audio I enjoy making & listening to music	Learn and sing any song relating to the Gold Rush.	Express the feelings of excitement on the gold field through percussion, rhythm or song	Listen to ‘tapes’ of ‘Dad and Dave. Listen to the language of the time	Listen and analyse pieces of music with a gold theme	In a group compose a ‘Gold Diggers Rap’.	Perform ‘ Gold’ songs/dance/rap at Assembly.
Interpersonal I enjoy working with others	With a partner start list snippets of information for a game board about GOLD.	Outline the class views of the Gold Rush using pictures and drawings to create a wall mural	Examine one type of transport of the Gold Rushes how people arrived, moved long distances.	Investigate the Sovereign Hill www site, identify and comment on specific topic	With a partner invent a new use for gold.	Discuss what were the easiest/hardest facts to learn on gold.
Intrapersonal I enjoy working by myself	Write a diary entry about living on the Gold Fields.	Express how you may have felt leaving home travel to an unknown place with no friends and uncertain future	Complete a comprehension sheet after viewing the video ‘Australian Gold Rushes’	Choose a ‘gold’ destination anywhere in the world. Explain why you would go there your expectations	Predict what will happen to gold mining in the future and what gold will be used for.	Complete a personal reflection on the ‘Gold’ unit.

Multiple Intelligences

GOLD! GOLD! GOLD!

It is the early 1850's in Australia - the period of Australian History known as the Gold Rush. You live in Old Sydney Town and like many others, you and your brother are rather poor and are tempted to head to the goldfields to make your pile.

There are several Gold Fields to choose from and much organizing to do before you find any gold.

TASK:

Which goldfield will you choose and why?

There is more than one goldfield to choose from. Which one will you choose to try your luck at?
Remember, you have little money and no experience.

Points to Consider

• Which type of gold mining best suits you?
• Which gold mining area offers the best chances of "striking it rich"?
• What are the costs involved in mining gold?

Decisions you will Need to Make

• Distance to the Gold Field... how will you get there?
• What equipment will I need?
• Will I buy my equipment before or after reaching the Gold Field
• What dangers might I face?

Assessment

Your teacher will apply a scale of marking for your decision making and equipment list.

• 10 points for each good decision
• 2 points for each essential item of equipment.

As about only 1 in 20 used to make a reasonable to good living from the Gold Fields, the top two point scorers could be considered to be the most successful.

Presentation

Your presentation should be in the form of a report. (About half a page of writing should be sufficient.)
You should clearly state:

• the decisions you made and why (ie which goldfield? why that particular one?)
• list the equipment you used.

From this report your teacher will make an assessment using the point score.