Month: August 2019

Intergrated Reflection

This term we have been learning about the gold rush and our intergraded title is the hard road ahead. We have been learning about the gold rush by going on camp, visiting a museum doing research and eventually building a diorama of Sovereign Hill.

One of the things we learnt about was life in the 1850s.

At camp we had to dress up as children for the 1850s and became a part of the museum. We learnt that girls came first and life was hard because everyone owes in one place and there weren’t enough houses to go round so many had tents or huts to live in. The mud did not help much ether.

We also learnt about business in the gold rush era. Some business did well in the 1850s while others struggled. We were given a business to build for our diorama. First we had to question the shop owner about its business in the gold rush. We had to ask about what the shop sold who it  attracted and when it shut down. We got the saddlery and my partner was Billy and we could not have done it if we didn’t work together.

  

The thing we probably focused on the most was the Eureka stockade because it played a great part in the governing of Australia and is what the Australian gold rush was most famous for (except gold). We learnt about Peter Lalor and the Eureka rebellion against the red coats.

At the Museum we went to we saw the Eureka flag(it was much bigger than we thought it would be). We also learnt that the Eureka stockade fell on December the 3 at three am in the morning.

Some important figures for the time were Peter Lalor and Governor Hotham. Lalor was an Irish man and had survived the potato famine and had worked building railways before the gold rush. Governor Hotham was the governor at the time of the stockade and he had spies in the stockade telling him when the best time to attack was.

Important dates we learnt about were 1823 when gold was first found in Australia but the finders tried to keep its secret but word got out. The 12th of Jan 1851 Edward Hargreaves find gold near Bathurst. The 7th of Oct 1854 James Scobie a digger was murdered by James Bentley. Then on 17th of October the diggers protested for Scobie and burned down James Bentley’s hotel. And on the 3rd of December, the Eureka stockade battle, where 27 people were killed and the battle lasted 20 minutes.

When we made our diorama we got in to pairs of our teachers choosing. I was with Billy and we made the saddlery and Chinese camp. The saddlery was created in 1861 by Joseph Gray who was a prize-winning exhibitor of harnesses at Ballarat’s early Agricultural Society shows.

The saddlery sells horse saddles, harnesses, bits, spurs, riding crops, stock whips and horse brasses.

It also sold wallets leather dressing, hats and saddle soap. This shop was aimed at horse owners and shut down shortly after the gold rush because horses became less popular and the flow of people from other country’s with horses stoped.The horse business today Is  not as popular for we have cars. 

I really enjoyed the gold rush unit and we have had to use had to use communication and collaboration to achieve our goal. It was a great topic and I hope to do a similar thing soon.

What would you have made for our diorama?

Mapping soveregin hill #2

This week we have been learning about Mapping, We have been maping a diorama we made. We had to code a sphero around it, draw a hand writer map and then digital directions. I have in my last blog post I showed you a map and a set of directions in this blog post I will show you how to lay out those instructions and how our sphero went through the maze. Sorry about some of the pronunciation by siri. What do you Know about mapping what do you use?

Mapping Soverin Hill

This week in maths we have been leaning about mapping. I have learnt about the compuse scale and ledgend.

We have made dioramas of Soveregin Hill in the 1850s then we maped  them. Here are some direction that I made to move through our diorama of Ballarat.

Here is my directions to get from one side of our diorama to the other.

How would you get from one side to the other.

Book Awards

This term in lirberay  we have been going through the no fiction books short list. Whe read Make Believe, a book about olutions, Waves a book about many different travelers and were they came from, Sorry day, a book about the day people said sorry for the stolen generation. We also had Bouncing Back, a book about Easten barred bandicoots, The happiness box, a book about a book written by Australian prisoners in ww2 and last we read our birds a book about the different birds of Australia. The winning book was Sorry Day. But we thought Make Belive would win. My favourite book was Waves. It had all the things a good non fiction book needed.

It had:

  • good pictures and good reference to them
  • imforation sources listed somewhere in the book
  • Good true information

Here are some of the books

bouncing back

Waves

What would be your favourite short listed 2019 CBCAbook week awards book be?

Camp

Last week we went on a camp to sovereign hill.

On the way we went to the sight of the Ereaka stockade. Currently on the land is a museum witch we went inside. In the museum we learn about the events prior and past the date of the fight. We also got to see the flag of the southen cross.

We had to dress up and become a part of the museum then  we had to act out the part of a child in the 1850s. We had to go to school and use the school rules and way of talking. We had to address people a Ma’am, Sir, Miss and master. We had to stand when people in costume came in the door. Our teacher Mr Benwell played the role of Mr brown the candy shop owner and as a result our class got two free sweets at the connectionists store. We got to write in copperplate writing which was used in that time.

We also got to go on mine tours. The first mine tour we went on I was very scared because to get down there we had to take a kind of tram that put us in complete darkness for around 90seconds but it was worth it we saw real gold and learnt how to find it. In the mines they used lifts and ladders to get the stone and people to the top. They used giant pumps to move the water from the mines to the top. we saw were the diggers dug and we saw the story of two chinese brothers who came to find good only to be buried in it. That mine was called the secret chamber. The next mine we went down was shorter and we were guided by an animatronic voice as we watched the story of the welcome nugget.

The welcome nugget

 

We had time to walk around the town and bye things with our $25. I bought a small sramaic     horse a bag of candy a candle and three small soaps. We had to wander around in groups of 3 but once we got left in a group of 2. We got activity books to fill out. In the activity books we had budgets and Wishlist and a mapping activity we also had to fill in our research sheets I had to research the Glasgow saddlery were they got horses saddled. There was also the digging were. In the diggings they had mud and bark huts and canvas tents through the middle there was a muddy stream with panes and pots for digging .

One night we went o see a show called aura. It was about gold and how it was made.

First we went in to a 3D theatre and watched a quick movie about how the world and gold formed. Then we went to a platform were we looked up at the hill next to it the story of the aboriginal creation. Then we went in to a theatre. We watched about the people coming here from England and other countries for the gold rush and then the screen opened up to a play theatre with only protections sound and fire as actors. We were all shocked even though we knew it was coming to watch the Eureaka Hotel set on fire.

 

The people of  gold  rush ballarat had a hard life and used many PLAs such as collaboration and courage two stick together and keep pushing.

When we were there we had to use resilience two keep going in the harsh wether and to use our imagination to come up with story for our characters.

I do not think I could make this program any better but to make it a day longer.

What role would you like to take up if you became part of the Sovereign Hill Museum.