AU DAZZLED - 5C GOLDFIELDS
Multiple
Intelligences
Visual
Knowing
Understanding
Applying
Analysing
Creating
Evaluating
Research what items were
rationed and popular in the
gold fields. Draw or paint a
picture of a shop front.
Using pictures from
magazines, newspapers,
catalogues etc make a collage
of ‘life on the gold fields’ on
two A4 sheets.
Using detail, develop a
typical scene/landscape
one may see when living
on the gold fields.
Using photos/print outs
of Gold mines. Identify
things that are similar or
different today vs 1850.
Draw a map of the world,
colour the countries that
have been involved in a ‘gold
rush’.
Create a poster
encouraging people to
join the life on the
goldfields.
With an adult, make a
raft which can hold a
500g weight (maybe a
piece of gold!). Take a
picture/video recording
of your raft floating on a
pond, in the bath or even
in the sea!
Develop a game bored
children would enjoy
playing in the goldfields.
Remember the limitations
of no electricity etc
Use collage material similar
to the artist Jeannie Baker
to create a scene from the
1850s
goldfields
Using information from:
http://www.australian
history.org/finding-gold
and other sources,
invent a mining tool.
Choose a ‘gold’ destination
anywhere in the world.
Make a brochure to
advertise
Predict what will happen
to gold mining in the
future and what gold
will be used for.
Write an explanation as
to why gold is
treasured.
Watch Midas Touch
http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=tgofmf4ivIw
Write 5 questions for
philosophical discussion
Predict what would have
happen if there were no
rules or licences in the
Gold Fields?
Or
Improve/change Gold
Licences and Policing –
write down your plan
Kinaesthetic
Print out a map of Australia
from:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wiki
pedia/commons/3/3b/Australia_
states_blank.png
Label the areas involved in
the Australian gold rush
during the 1850s
Interpersonal
Make a Game – Gold Bingo
Trivial Pursuit
Celebrity Heads
Verbal
Make a model of a
typical shelter used
in the gold rush by
the miners. Use
recycled creative
objects such as
paper, modelling etc.
Create a rap dance showing movements of
panning/fossicker to music
Write a song (lyrics) about your life on the gold fields
Dress up as a member of the goldfield and present a
talk about your life in 1850’s. .
With a partner; take the role of Hargreaves or Lalor
and interviewer. Find out about either one of the
characters thoughts of the eureka stockade
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Mathematical
How much? Find out what
value gold has at the
moment (end of TV news)
US$ to Aus$ Currency
Converter. Calculate the
value of an ounce of gold
in Australian Dollars.
Draw a bar graph to
show the number of
people in the gold
fields during the
1850s. Develop the
bar graph according
to the different
nationalities and
cultures in the gold
fields/.
Write a newspaper article for
a small gold field area who
have just welcomed 10 families
from overseas. Write about

Who, what, when,
where, why
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Events planned
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Education and rules
Peter Lalor and his family
travelled over 16000Km to get
to Australia from Ireland.
Write 10 maths problems for
an adult to solve. Make you
know the answers too.
Write a poem about the
trials and tribulations of
the gold fields. Be
prepared to read it to the
class!
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How have the areas of the
Australian gold rush
(Ballarat, Bendigo, Geelong
etc) changed since 1850?
Find facts and create
statements about how our
country has changed.
Eg in 1850 the average
salary was 30-40c/week
Use a recipe from this site
http://www.cooks.com/rec/search/0,10,gold_rush,FF.html
Cook a meal that may have been served if you were on
the gold fields. Make sure your measure out
ingredients and have an adult with you at all times.
Write a short evaluation. This about:
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How it is different from your normal meals
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The portion size
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What you enjoyed about it
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What you would change
The Reverse Listing Key
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Name 5 things you cannot make with
gold.
The Alphabet Key
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Alphabet GOLD
Think of a word about GOLD for each
letter of the alphabet.
The Different Uses Key

List some different uses for a shovel.
The Question Key

List five questions that give the answer
gold.
Diary entry
1. Express how you may have felt leaving home
The What If Key
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What if you were:
a bushranger in the gold rush
The Variations Key

How many ways can you make a hole to
find gold? Draw and write your
answers.
The Ridiculous Key
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Every family should have a house
made of gold. Explain why this idea is
a good one.
The Inventions Key
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Invent a machine to help you find
and/or dig for gold.
3. You’ve struck Gold, but your friends either
side of your tent have not. Make a diary entry
travel to an unknown place with no friends and
on what you are going to do with your
uncertain future
discovery.
2. Write a diary entry about arriving on the Gold
Fields.
4. Finding gold
5.
Inventing a new tool
The BAR Key
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BAR a shovel for digging gold. Make it
BIGGER, ADD something to it,
REPLACE something on it.
The Prediction Key
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Predict what they will be using gold for
in 100 years.
The Commonality Key
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Find common points between a shovel
and a nugget of gold.
The Forced Relationships Key
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You need to catch a horse with a peg, a
shovel and a vegemite sandwich. Outline
your plan and use drawings to explain
the steps.
6. Make a diary’ entry of one day of life on the
fields as an aboriginal or Chinese child
7. Record another diary entry expressing how you
felt leaving your family in search of riches