History+Learning+Evidence


 * This page is a collaboration of the evidence of learning that I have engaged in on History for this semester so far.**

History - Presis 1 Moore, George. (1999). //Gold in Australia.// Western Australia, R.I.C Publications. A link to this book can be found at @http://www.ricgroup.com.au/bookshtml/0322RH/index.htm

//Gold in Australia// is a large document/educational resource that includes copious information for teachers and students. It is age appropriate for upper primary from Year 5-6. This Resource is about the Australian Gold Rush. This document includes articles containing background information and also activities/worksheets for students to use in order to help their learning and knowledge on this particular topic. The book includes information such as the Gold Fever, Life on the Gold Fields, Important/Significant People, Maps of Goldfields around Australia, Cultures and Culture disputes including the History of Chinese Immigration, Mining and The Environment and various timelines of each state's Gold Rush. Students have the opportunity to explore their knowledge from this resource and gain perspective of the Miners of the Gold Rush. I would love to use this book in a SoSE Unit, I believe the impact this resource would have on students' learning would provide them with a reference, covering many aspects of The Australian Gold Rush. The book also includes various pictures where students are able to visualise the time period in which they are learning about. For example, one article discusses the Goldfields and Aboriginal People. It helps students to understand the effects the gold rushes had on the Aboriginal people. It discusses the impact of European settlement having a major effect on the native people as they took their land, ate their food, depleted their supplies, introduced illnesses and forced their ways on the Aboriginals. This article helps students' see the difference perspectives of the two cultures. The Aboriginals saw their land as sacred where the diggers did not care but were more interested in digging up the land in search for wealth. The easy to understand box at the top of the article, helps students to see the effect on Aboriginals not only effecting their native land, but the actual culture including population. This box clearly shows the increased population of Europeans, and as the years increase the Aboriginal population diminishes. Eg, 1836 there are 226 Europeans and 11 500 Aboriginals and then in 1861 there are 540 00 Europeans and 2 300 Aboriginals. Overall, this resource is efficient, effective and suffices as a resource to develop students' learning and knowledge of the Gold Rush Period.

History - Presis 1: by Kirby

The Department of Transport and Regional Services (DOTARS) provide an interesting brochure on the heritage trail at CaptainsFlat. page 2 of this brochure can be found at@http://www.captainsflat.org/content/brochure_page_2.pdf.

The brochure is about the historic mining village Captains Flat. Depicting a map and key, along with a brief insight to the town's [|history], you are able to create an journey that will take you back in time and 'imagine what the town was like in full swing.' Having recently visited Captains Flat on a tour, the information on the brochure is only a brief insight to the town's history itself. Therefore, through my precis I wish to addsupplementary information which I gained from the tour. As the brochure states- "The unique geology around the Flat still attratcts many geologists and students to the village." This is an interesting statement because on the tour I learnt that sedimentary rocks and volcanic rocks of the late silurian age (about 440million years old) deposited in a faulted submarine trough- forming the Captains Flat-Goulburn synclinorial zone. The brochure states that Gold was discovered in the area in 1864. On the tour I learnt that Gold was found in the 1860's, but it wasn't until 1882 that the Molongolo River Goldfields were proclaimed. Another interesting fact that the brochure states is that thre were 2 main mines; The //Koh-i-noor// and //Commodore// and then goes on to say Lake George Mines commenced operations in 1939. However, one interesting fact that this brochure leaves out is that the Koh-i-noor mine and Commodore Mine combined in 1894 and formed Lake George Mines and that by the end of 1899, the mining boom was over and the town reverted to a population of 300. The town boomed again in 1937, which would explain why the brochure goes onto explain that Lake George Mines commenced operations in 1939. The town boomed again because a railway was built through the town connecting Bomabala and Bungendore. The mine then closed in 1962 because ore deposits had depleated and the last train to Bungendore was in 1968. However, the railway was temporarily reopened for the filming of NedKelly and then the line was permanently closed with the removal of the junction points and realignment of the track to Queanbeyan. Overall, I found the tour very interesting and useful for both personal interests and educational purposes.
 * Past to present:**
 * Mining History:**

History - Presis 2: based on Kirby's Precis:

Article 1- Moore, George. (1999). Gold in Australia Western Australia, R.I.C Publications. A link to this book can be found at @http://www.ricgroup.com.au/bookshtml/0322RH/index.htm  Article 2 - Found by Kirby Watts Found at- The Department of Transport and Regional Services (DOTARS) provide an interesting brochure on the heritage trail at Captains Flat. page 2 of this brochure can be found at  @http://www.captainsflat.org/content/brochure_page_2.pdf.

Kirby's resource is a good way to look deeper into specific Goldfields and historical information. As the book 'Gold in Australia' talks about the different Goldfields on Australia, it doesn't necessarily talk specifically about each Goldfield/town/villiage. The brochure/tour is a good way to delve deeper into the aspects of a mining field, specifically the village, Captians Flat. As the 'Gold in Australia' resource endeavours to help students gain a perspective of the diggers/miners, the Captains Flat Villiage helps support this as students are able to go on a physical journey through a tour and see, touch, feel and observe the life of a Gold Digger. The best feature of this tour is that students are able to link their learning in the classroom to the outside world. They are also able to gain new information including historical information about when gold fever started and when and why this particular villiage boomed. It's a great resource for children to experience when learning about the Gold Rush, especially school's of Canberra. The 'Gold in Australia' book is effective for getting information about Australia in general but Captains Flat Tour takes it that one step further as students are able to closely discover and experience something locally as well. This then can create a new learning path as students can use this information to bring back into the classroom environment and learn about the Canberra Gold Rush and Goldfields.

After reading [|Kirby Watts']' precis on Captains flat gold mining history I thought I'd provide some resources to relate to the topic of Gold mining. Some valuable sites that I have used to develop my learning of History and the Gold Rush topics include:

Gold Rush Smart Board Activity - Fantastic Resource [|The Learning Federation - Gold Rush] Kirby's Moodle Posting Luke's Moodle Posting >

Some History about Gungahlin that was researched with our Learning Buddies. History of Gungahlin In relation to the History of Gungahlin, a Spicy Node was created by our group, which is a fantastic way of representing some of the history in a time line. Timeline - SpicyNode

History Teachers Association Australia @http://www.historyteacher.org.au/

Other Relevant Websites Used: The Learning federation offers resources relating to the area of SOSE. @http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/41739/20040505-0000/ www.statelibrary.vic.gov.au/slv_/exhibitions/goldfields/index.html @http://www.oldmogotown.com.au/reefgold.html @http://www.sbs.com.au/gold/