Task
Could you imagine yourself as a miner or many of the women, Chinese migrants, Aborigines or children who were apart of the great Australian Gold Rush? Are you ready to see what life was like for the people living on the gold fields of Australia in the 1850s?
Your task is to work with your assigned teams (five students per team) to explore the lives of a group of people during the Gold Rush in Australia. Each team will be assigned one of the following topic groups: miners, Chinese migrants, Aboriginal people, women or children. You are to research the lives of your topic group through a number of tasks. As a group you will use all the information gathered to present a poster depicting what life was like during the Gold Rush for your topic group.
Your task is to work with your assigned teams (five students per team) to explore the lives of a group of people during the Gold Rush in Australia. Each team will be assigned one of the following topic groups: miners, Chinese migrants, Aboriginal people, women or children. You are to research the lives of your topic group through a number of tasks. As a group you will use all the information gathered to present a poster depicting what life was like during the Gold Rush for your topic group.
Remember
Your main aim is to find out 'What life was like during the Australian Gold Rush' for the people you are researching (miners, Chinese migrants, Aboriginal people, women or children).
Team table
Each team is represented by a town were gold was discovered during the Gold Rush in the 1850s. Check the table below to see which team you are apart of. There will be NO changing teams.
TEAMS | Team Bathurst | Team Ophir | Team Murroo Creek | Team Ballarat | Team Bendigo |
Topic | You will research the life of MINERS during the 1850s Gold Rush in Australia. | You will research the life of WOMEN during the 1850s Gold Rush in Australia | You will research the life of CHILDREN during the 1850s Gold Rush in Australia | You will research the life of CHINESE MIGRANTS during the 1850s Gold Rush in Australia | You will research the life of ABORIGINAL PEOPLE during the 1850s Gold Rush in Australia |
Students | Emily, David, Ellen, Gabby, Donna | Sarah, Rosie, Jocelyn, Matthew, Tom | Davina, Phillip, Mark, Scott, Emma | Ben, Michelle, Melissa, Kylie, James | Belinda, Darren, Rachel, Andrew, Brent |