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The impact of a significant development or event on an Australian colony
A 17-slide teaching presentation that explores the challenges, hardships and glory of a life spent digging on the Australian goldfields.
36 vocabulary cards to use in the classroom when learning about Colonial Australia.
An inquiry project in which students research personalities from the Australian Gold Rush and portray them as part of a Living Wax Museum.
A fun mapping activity for students to pinpoint gold finds and gold rush locations between 1851 to 1893 on a map of Australia.
A teaching presentation that explores the origins of the Australian Gold Rush.
An interactive gold-panning game in which students explore scenarios of reward, penalisation and inequality.
A Venn diagram template designed to allow students to compare and contrast the pros and cons of Indigenous peoples helping miners and the establishment of the Native Police Force during the Australian Gold Rush.
A template students can use to reflect on immigration to Australia while researching their own family ancestry.
A creative writing newspaper project in which students design and write the front page of an imagined newspaper from the Australian Gold Rush era.
A worksheet that enables students to design and share a story using still frame images.
A Y-chart template students can use to reflect on what working on the goldfields looked like, sounded like and felt like.
This Australian Gold Rush unit investigates the historical discovery of Australia’s Gold Rush period, from the mid-to-late 1800s. Ideas include the discovery of gold, mining lifestyle, wealth and success, social consequences, and how these shaped the Australia we live in today.
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