The Australian Gold Rush

We have been learning about the gold rush in Australia. We have learnt lots of things about the gold rush such as:

• Near the end of September 1851, there were about 10,000 people digging for gold near ballarat.  
• The most popular goldfields were Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie.
• The ophir mine was near a waterhole.
• Gold was valued from $12,00 to $35 .00 an ounce.
• Women did do mining later on in the gold rush and women used to entertain men while they were digging.
• Gold seekers must pay for a licence in order to dig for Gold.
• Food cost a lot because so much people were getting gold.

What interesting facts have you found out so far?

Yr 5's Gold Rush

GOLD HUNT

Yr5 had a spectacular gold hunt and we found lots of golden nuggets which was chocolate gold coins and had a very fun time finding it.

We did the gold hunt so we can feel how the gold miners felt like when they found golden nuggets.

It was really fun but some had more than others but in the end we all shared golden chocolate coins.

Before we shared the golden coins we had to take a vote between sharing it fairly or keep what you have,

but sharing it fairly had the most votes.

Only some people who have the coins put up their hand to keep what they have but the rest put their hand up to share it fairly.

It was finally done but still some people was moaning and groaning about how unfair it was because other people had more than they did.