Stage 3M Life in the Gold Fields

Introduction

Welcome STAGE 3M to our Gold WebQuest!

We would like to introduce to you Bridget and Eric. Bridget and Eric are in year 6 and want to find out what life was like on the gold fields in the 1850s. Can you help them?Watch the video using the link below to hear Bridget and Eric discuss what they want to find out.

http://goanimate.com/videos/0457TLGg8rbg?utm_source=linkshare

Gold Map

Click on the link below to view the map of Australia to see where gold has been found.http://www.sbs.com.au/gold/GOLD_MAP.html

Task

Click on the  'Task' tab above, to see what lies in store for you.

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.

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.You can choose to locate your team and other teams towns on the map located on the below weblink.
http://goanimate.com/videos/0457TLGg8rbg?utm_source=linkshare

By the end of this WebQuest, you and your assigned team will have:

Written a letter as either a miner, child, woman, Chinese migrant or Aboriginal person from the 1850s describing what life is like, the conditions (weather/food/clothing etc.)

• Located on a map the area your group was mining in
• Created a poster about your assigned group
• Researched about your assigned group using several sources (youtube clips, websites, books)
• Answered the four W questions (what, where, when, who) in a online Mini Quiz
• Completed a KWL chart throughout the WebQuest

Now go over to the Process page to see what's instore for you!

Go to the following page and click on the steps to complete your tasks

http://dunnwestbrook.weebly.com/process.html