Multiple

Intelligences

Bloom's Taxonomy: Six Thinking Levels

Knowing

Understanding

Applying

Analysing

Creating

Evaluating

Verbal

I enjoy reading, writing & speaking

List a variety of "fast facts" on Gold.

Research and record information on fossicking and mining methods

Outline one aspect of the gold rush in the form of an information report

Prepare  a report on forms of gold panning with and without water (dry panning)

Investigate more unusual forms of Gold Mining

Predict what would have happen if there were no rules or licences in the Gold Fields

Form teams and conduct a debate on a topical gold issue.

Mathematical

I enjoy working with numbers & science

Write a timeline of events  starting at the first gold rush in Australia and the main events

Describe (in map form) a gold field. Include gold fields, township, mining areas

Calculate the value of gold nuggets found during the gold rush to today's value.

Compare the "gold rush" population explosion in graph form

Improve/change Gold Licences and Policing Ð write down your plan

Evaluate the value of gold as a major change in our History

Visual

I enjoy painting drawing & visualising

Describe living in the Goldfields. Draw and colour picture of homes, clothes -

make paper models

Draw a front, side and top view of gold panning/fossicking equipment

Construct a Gold Licence, make it look authentic by using old fashioned writing and yellow/ faded paper.

Identify something fromtoday's technology that would have helped locate gold in the 1850Õs.  Draw it

Design jewellery pieces that show the use of gold.

Choose a favourite part of the gold unit and comment on it

Kinaesthetic

I enjoy doing hands-on activities

Game - Gold Bingo

Trivial Pursuit

Celebrity Heads

Match the gold townships from the atlas to the map of Australia

Construct a gold fossicking/ mining model or diorama.

Examine methods of gold mining - create a model out of clay and natural materials

Create a rap dance showing movements of panning/fossicker to music.

Create a compute generated table (to make into a game board)

Musical / Audio

I enjoy making & listening to music

Learn and sing any song relating to the Gold Rush.

Express the feelings of excitement on the gold field through percussion, rhythm or song

Listen to "tapes" of Dad and Dave. Listen to the language of the time

Listen and analayse pieces of music with a gold theme

In a group compose a "Gold Diggers Rap".

Perform "Gold" songs/dance/rap at Assembly.

Interpersonal

I enjoy working with others

With a partner start list snippets of information for a game board about GOLD.

Outline the class views of the Gold Rush using pictures and drawings to create a wall mural

Examine one type of transport of the Gold Rushes how people arrived, moved long distances.

Investigate the Sovereign Hill www site, identify and comment on specific topic

With a partner invent a new use for gold.

Discuss what were the easiest/hardest facts to learn on gold.

Intrapersonal

I enjoy working by myself

Write a diary entry about living on the Gold Fields.

Express how you may have felt leaving home travel to an unknown place with no friends and uncertain future

Complete a comprehension sheet after viewing the video "Australian Gold Rushes"

Choose a "gold" destination anywhere in the world. Explain why you would go there your expectations

Predict what will happen to gold mining in the future and what gold will be used for.

Complete a personal reflection on the "Gold" unit.