An Integrated H.S.I.E. Teaching / Learning Unit

Reading: Learning to read: Rigby Australia Strand Levels 4-10 Reading to Learn: Gold in Australia Tim Cattell, History of Australia Clarke, et. al., library and internet resources State Library of Victoria - Goldfields Golden Dragon Museum Bendigo Gold Rushes and Bushrangers Grammar: structural and syntactic analysis	Talking & Listening: Text and Context: pitch, pace, pause, gesture, facial expression Strategies: effective questioning, select, sequence, organise subject matter Grammatical patterns: noun groups, generalised & specific nouns Activities: Group Discussions, Barrier Games, Readers Theatre, Hot Seat, moral dilemas Dipictions, Interviews, Information Reports, Assessment: Oral Presentations	Writing: Factual Recount: Goldfields excursion Procedure: How to make a diarama Description: Information Report: Discovery of Gold Historical Biography: A selected person Explanation: Exposition: on a current topic Discussion: Literary Narrative Own choice of stories Poetry: Gold acrostics
Spelling Adelaide agricultural allotted alluvial deposit armed escots art galleries Ballarat bark shelters Bathurst Bendigo Botanical Gardens buckets built bushrangers capital cities carats caught celebrate circular dish claim colonial colonies colonists colony consequences convicts cradle creek-beds crushing cultural activities currency democratic deserting development discovery distributed document drays earning Edward Hargraves dredge emancipists emigrants enormous establishment Eureka Stockade excitment exclusion expansion expedition experience exported extracted fabulous fees flat-bottomed boat foreigners fortunes foundation founded free selection freedom gilding gold-bearing gold particles gold rush	Human Society and Its Environment What is gold? What is gold used for? Early discoveries of gold in NSW Edward Hargraves Getting to the goldfields Mining techniques and tools Living conditions Largest nuggets found Location of goldfields Bushrangers - Piesley Gardiner Gilbert Hall Morgan Kelly People: Hargraves, Lalor, Holtermann Effects of gold mining (a) immigration (b) wealth (c) Eureka Stockade (d) towns and cities built (e) more land opened up	Creative Arts Landscapes and murals of a mining town Dioramas of mining town Re-enactment day constructing tools, tents and other equipment Recreatment costumes: troopers, miners, bushrangers, shop keepers, bankers, government officials Making models of mining tools mining camps The Welcome Stranger and other gold nuggets Reproducing miner’s licence Flag of the Southern Cross Drama Gold re-enactment day Music Wild Colonial Boy Folk songs Dance Folk dances Dances for Year 6 farewell
Literature Eureka Gold Vashti Farrer The Loaded Dog Lawson Poetry: The Bushrangers A Day's Ride Handwriting: NSW Foundation by C. & M. Evely Dictation: Topic sentences	PD Health and PE Daily fitness Friday Sport PSSA Swimming Gymnastics Healthy food - food groups Child Protection	Mathemetics Number: Numeration 14-15 Addition 8-9 Subtraction 12-15 Multiplication 10-12 Division 9-12 Money 6-7 Space: 3D 13-15 2D 19-25 Measurement: Volume 12-15 Mass 11-13 Area 8-10
RESOURCES
Gold in Australia Links	Another Gold Unit	Life on the Goldfields Exhibition
Gold, Gold Gold NSW Country Areas Program On-Line Research Module

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