Gold
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Background

People on the Goldfields 

Life on the Diggings

Eureka Stockade

For Teachers 

Background
The Australian Gold Rush  good overview from Australia's Culture & Recreation site

eGold! A Nation's Heritage  electronic encyclopedia of gold in Australia.

Australian Gold Rush Timeline  

Gold - Australia  Kid Cyber site

Australian History - Gold  

Gold! Gold! Its properties & uses  Sovereign Hill research notes

Observations about Gold  from Old Mogo Town research notes.

Mining Techniques  

Gold rush interactive

Gold Rush!  

Take yourself back to the Ballarat goldfields of 1865 and mine for gold. Your mission is to use limited financial resources to select and buy food, shelter and other requirements. National Museum of Australia site.

The People Who Came to the Goldfields
Gold Fever  NSW, Vic., & getting to the goldfields. From Australian Gold Exhibition 

The Road to the Diggings  getting to the Gold Fields

New Chums & new arrivals  

The Chinese on the Australian Goldfields  

Women on the Australian Goldfields  

From Sovereign Hill research notes.

Travelling to the Goldfields  

A Safe Passage  story of Phoebe Emmeline Macpherson.

The Great Irish Famine  Why did so many Irish people came to Australia?

From Sovereign Hill research notes.

The Chinese  who came to Ballarat

Women and Families on the Goldfields  

1850's school life  

Law & Order on the Goldfields  

Life on the Diggings

1850's Goldrush Overview  from Old Mogo Town education notes.

FAQ's  Sovereign Hill

Life on the Australian Goldfields  

 

Diggings Life  Information & images about working on the diggings, surviving, entertainment, law & order, and women on the goldfields. From Australian Gold Exhibition 

Entertainment on the Gold Fields  

More Difficult Information

Research notes  - for secondary students about the Ballarat Goldfields.

Gold Information pack for teachers  this pdf has great information on minorities on the goldfields

Eureka Stockade - The Results of the Goldrush 

The Eureka Rebellion  Sovereign Hill research notes.

Eureka Stockade  Kid Cyber site

Conflict  Australian Gold Exhibition. 

Eureka on Trial  

Eureka Flag  

Drawings & Photo Gallery  of Goldfields Life

Golden quotes  read what people wrote about life on the Ballarat Goldfields from the Sovereign Hill site

For Teachers

Gold! Gold! Gold! (S3) NSW CAP Online Research Module.

Gold Information pack for teachers

Lake Munmorrah Pages on Gold

    Gold Panning  Cloze Activity

    Gold  Clickable worksheet 

    Gold Hunt  

Old Mogo Town 1850's Goldrush Theme Park.

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This page updated 06/02/2013