Over the last few weeks our Year 5 students have been studying units on Gold, rocks and minerals. The girls have been required to collaborate together to research the work of various characters who lived at the time of the gold rush era in Australia and present their findings to the whole group. The girls were able to negotiate how they were going to present their material and last week they made their presentations. It was wonderful to see them use a variety of ways to inform their peers. The girls had to plan their work and think up questions to answer regarding their characters. Some used drama and ventured back in time. Others used interactive software tools like Prezzies and Power Point to reveal their research. Each group was different and they all showed insight into the life of their particular character. We learnt about the women and children, the indigenous people and Chinese, life of the diggers, bushrangers and the Eureka rebels. Well done girls! I know we all came away a little richer for the information relayed!
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Girls it was a pleasure to take you away and see the glint of gold in your eyes as we hunted for the prize! Canberra next year will be a great experience to look forward to!
Eureka!!! The Highlight of the trip was finding Gold. Thanks to all the teachers for making it most exciting trip ever!
I think that I can say we all had a lot of fun!!It was really entertaining and exciting.
I think that i can say that the whole of Year 5 had a blast, while doing this.
Thank to the teachers!
Thank you Ms B and Mrs O for taking Year 5 to the Bathurst Goldfields!
I had lots of fun and I’m sure everyone else had a great time too. I enjoyed it a lot and I wish I could go there again.
Dear Mrs O
I loved doing our speeches and I loved learning about it too. We went to Bathurst not a while ago and there was alot of fly’s. But I had so much fun!!!!
Thank you Mrs O and Miss B for organizing this amazing fun invent. I am sure every girl had tonnes of fun and learn lots. I am sure the next year 5′s are going to enjoy it as much as we have. Good Luck with next year and i hope you make lots of new friends.
Hi Mrs O
I think we had a lot of fun in Bathurst this year. I hope next year you and Miss B can go again and have as much fun as this year.
I had a lot of fun on camp. I really enjoyed going to the Jenolan Caves and walking through the Lucas Cave. That was my highlight of the trip. Thanks to all the teachers who organised the trip.
Thank you for posting that Mrs O, I really enjoyed panning for gold, learning about mining and experiencing what it was really like on the goldfields. I also had a great time at the Jenolan caves. They were amazing! I can not believe that the stalactites take 100 years to grow 1 cm and even though we could not really see the 3 sisters it was still really fun.
Wow Mrs O!
I couldn’t have said it better myself!
I really enjoyed learning about the different groups of people who lived on the goldfield and it was great that we learnt about not just our groups but the others as well.
It’s been so fun learning about life on the gold fields! I was a Eureka Rebel and it was so much fun. I can’t wait to learn more about gold.
Zoe.
Mrs O
I loved learning about the Chinese People! There is so much to learn about. It all payed off when we went to Bathurst!
We have had so much fun this term. I’ve loved learning about life on the goldfields and going on camp. Camp at Bathurst was amazing, it was great panning for gold and cabins were fun. When we did the gold, gold, gold projects it was so amazing learning about all the different things they did, when they were poor and rich. This term has been tons of fun.
Thanks Mrs O and Miss B,
We had a great time learning about what life on the Gold Fields for different people. I was learning about Bush-rangers and there life. Thankyou for making this unit so interesting. Millie
I loved learning about the women and children in my study’s BUT I was just as exited and keen to learn about the indigenous people Chinese digger Eureka rebels and bush rangers
Dear Year 5 Teachers
Thank You for giving me great lessons each day about gold, minerals and goldfields.
Samirah Y
Thank you so much! I really enjoyed the whole unit on gold. It was really fun!
Thank you,
Miss B and Mrs O this term was amazing and I would do it again. The Gold Gold Gold homework task was hard but fun and it made me think about what would it be like on the gold fields!!!
THANK YOU for teaching us so well about the Gold rush
LARA
In Year 5, we’ve had loads of fun learning about Life on the Goldfields and what kinds of different lives people could live there. I would have to agree with Charlotte M. We all have had a lot of fun!
I hope 5O has learned as much as 5B about the goldfields!
Jess.
That is very interesting. Last year, I did that too. I hope that you guys loved it! -Saphire
Thanks Mrs O. We have all had a lot of fun!