Excursion
In this learning experience students will be embarking on an excursion to Eureka Excursions which is situated
7 km from Beenleigh, Queensland. The excursion program selected for the student will be called Gold Rush! Gold Rush is a full day, interactive learning experience. It has been described as 'A great, real-life authentic learning experience' and 'outstanding!'
The Gold Rush program addresses the SOSE, English, Technology, Arts, Mathematics, and HPE key learning areas. Through various ways of working students are able to develop Knowledge and Understanding in the following strands:
SCENARIO
The year is 1854. Diggers arrive at the goldfields suffering from a seemingly incurable sickness, GOLD FEVER! A thriving, tented township has sprung up, almost overnight, with businesses and diggers tents everywhere. Will the 'new chums' find their fortune, or will they be swindled by unscrupulous characters or even robbed by bushrangers? Will they leave rich or destitute?
At the goldfields, the students will:
This authentic experience will allow the students to engage and identify with what life was like when the Australian gold rush was happening. This excursion also gives students an experience to then write an authentic writing piece in the next lesson. As students have been learning about recounts prior to this excursion while this memory is still fresh the next day students will brainstorm, plan and create a recount of their experience on the Gold Rush.
7 km from Beenleigh, Queensland. The excursion program selected for the student will be called Gold Rush! Gold Rush is a full day, interactive learning experience. It has been described as 'A great, real-life authentic learning experience' and 'outstanding!'
The Gold Rush program addresses the SOSE, English, Technology, Arts, Mathematics, and HPE key learning areas. Through various ways of working students are able to develop Knowledge and Understanding in the following strands:
- Speaking and Listening
- Time, continuity and change
- Place and space
- Culture and identity
- Political and economic systems
- Technology as a human endeavour
- Information, materials and systems
- Drama
- Number
- Chance and data
- Space
- Health
SCENARIO
The year is 1854. Diggers arrive at the goldfields suffering from a seemingly incurable sickness, GOLD FEVER! A thriving, tented township has sprung up, almost overnight, with businesses and diggers tents everywhere. Will the 'new chums' find their fortune, or will they be swindled by unscrupulous characters or even robbed by bushrangers? Will they leave rich or destitute?
At the goldfields, the students will:
- Footslog through thick Australian bush in search of the township
- Be surprised when bailed up by a nasty bushranger on horseback
- Find businesses with their own names on them
- Use maps to explore the goldfields
- Role play a number of situations that may have occurred during the Australian Gold Rush
- Construct tents in groups
- Buy gold licences…… before playing the GOLD RUSH game
This authentic experience will allow the students to engage and identify with what life was like when the Australian gold rush was happening. This excursion also gives students an experience to then write an authentic writing piece in the next lesson. As students have been learning about recounts prior to this excursion while this memory is still fresh the next day students will brainstorm, plan and create a recount of their experience on the Gold Rush.