Here are your 7 topics
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Click on each title to take you to the topic page.
You must complete AT LEAST ONE (1) activity from each topic. The more you complete, the more GOLD you discover! |
1. A golden start
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What IS gold? What makes it important, anyway? Facts about gold and how it is used today as well as throughout the world's history. |
2. time for Gold
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Get to know the times of the Australian Gold Rush and answer the important questions: What happened? When? Where? Why? |
3. life on the fields
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"What would it have been like to live on the Gold Fields?"
What might life have been like for diggers, convicts, women or children? |
4. eureka stockade
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Learn all about this famous event: the closest thing to a civil war that Australia has in it's short history. Where did it take place? Why did it occur? Who was involved?
Was it a rebellion or a revolution? You decide.... |
5. Immigration
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People all over the world heard news of the Gold Rush and hoped to strike it rich:
Who migrated to Australia? From where? Why? How were they treated? How did Australia's population change during the gold rush? |
6. tools and inventions
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How did the diggers get their gold out of the ground?
What inventions helped diggers to get more gold? Can you invent something to improve their luck? |
7. bush rangers
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From convicts to bush rangers, it seems Australia's history is filled with criminals! Learn about some of the most famous gangs, rangers and their crimes...
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