Introduction
This web-quest will guide you through some sources of information for you to take notes from for your History assessments.
Make sure that you watch all of the videos and follow all of the hyperlinks.
Enjoy!!
Task
Watch this video from Behind the News:
Process
Look at this webpage that talks about Chinese migration to the goldfields:
Evaluation
Read about the 'Welcome Nugget', one of the most famous nuggets of gold to be found during the Victorian gold rush!
Conclusion
Follow this hyperlink to dig for gold on the Ballarat goldfields in 1865. Try your luck at alluvial or shaft mining. Buy a miner's permit, tools and enough supplies to last a month. Discover how hard life was on the goldfields. Explore a map showing the countries migrants left to join the gold rush in Australia. Find out which towns developed due to the discovery of gold. Look at an illustrated timeline to find out how the gold rush led to a boom in the Australian economy and rural development. This learning object is the more complex in a series of two learning objects that differ in complexity of navigation and basic calculations.
http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/viewing/L680/L680/index.html