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 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 Events planned 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! 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: How it is different from your normal meals The portion size What you enjoyed about it What you would change The Reverse Listing Key Name 5 things you cannot make with gold. The Alphabet Key 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 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 Every family should have a house made of gold. Explain why this idea is a good one. The Inventions Key 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 BAR a shovel for digging gold. Make it BIGGER, ADD something to it, REPLACE something on it. The Prediction Key Predict what they will be using gold for in 100 years. The Commonality Key Find common points between a shovel and a nugget of gold. The Forced Relationships Key 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