Gold Mini Project

Year 6 Gold Mini Project – Week 5 Term 2 2016

Choose ONE of the activities below to complete for homework this week (Week 5).  

Present your work on separate paper – NOT in your homework book.

• Research what the role and responsibilities of women were during the gold rush. Using a Venn diagram (two overlapping circles) compare the life of women during the gold rush to that of women today. 

• The gold fields were Australia’s first experience of a truly multicultural population. Investigate the cultural differences and racism in the gold fields. Present your findings in a 1-2 minute talk to the class.

• What was the Eureka Stockade? Create a brochure, booklet or poster that addresses: Who, what when, where and why. Investigate why it was a key event in the development of democracy in Australia.

• Investigate the effect that the gold rush had on the Aboriginal population. Create a list of advantages and disadvantages for Indigenous people

• Imagine you a person living and working in the gold fields. Either write a journal entry describing a day in the gold fields or write a simple song about your experiences on the gold fields, using a tune you already know

• Research and create a `how to’ book on the methods used to find gold. Each method will need to be written as a procedure. 

OPTIONAL

• Create an artwork that represents an aspect of life in the gold fields.

Bring your completed project to school on FRIDAY 27^th May (and no later) for marking.

Ned Kelly Series by Sidney Nolan

View the wonderful paintings by Sidney Nolan that tell the story of the infamous bush ranger Ned Kelly.  There are 26 of the 27 paintings in the series available to view on the National Gallery of Australia's website (here). Each painting has an historic note about the event in Ned Kelly's life that the painting depicts as well as some of the artist's reflections about the paintings.  What do you think of Ned Kelly?  Hero or villain?

Gold Fever!

The Australian Gold Rush

Get ready for our trip to Hill End, the home of the first Australian Gold Fields, by finding out all about the Gold Rush era of the mid 1800s in Australia.

Here are some great activities to help you build your knowledge about the Gold Rush:


Homework Week 3 - Amazing Gold Facts
Visit the Discovery Channel's website here and the  SBS interactive site about gold here to find some amazing facts about gold (The Patents link has lots of good facts and vocab). Make a list of the words to create your own word bank with words that are relevant to gold. Create a wordle or Tagzedo about Gold and print it out and bring it in to glue into your History book

Class Reading
Visit the SBS's amazing site  to learn all about the Gold Rush era in Australia.  Click on the Discovery link and learn all about Edward Hargraves, who was instrumental in starting the Gold Rush in Australia.


Paired Research Activity
Use the above amazing site to visit in pairs.  Note take and create a personal KWL chart in your History book.  What do you Know about the Gold Rush in Australia already?  What do you Want to know?  This will help you to have some questions in mind that you would like to answer during our trip to Hill End.  When we get back from Hill End, you can fill in the last section, what have you Learnt?  The site contains heaps of interactive links, maps, stories etc to click on and learn about the Australian gold rush and some of the characters associated with it.  A fantastic resource for you to use.
 


Class Viewing - What's Happening Now?The modern take:
New use for old Gold mines - watch this quick BTN video about old gold mines and whats happening with them now.