Landscapes

__**Introduction:**__
In the second activity the children will be describing some of the consequences of colonial exploration and expansion, and the discovery of gold, for the environment. In this lesson the children have to sort, compare and describe the changes of the Australian landscape that have occured from this important era in Australian history. As both a class and group, the students will be exploring these changes and using the interactive whiteboard to record this information.

__**Task Page:**__
> Relevant pictures that the teacher will show:
 * For the first activity, the teacher will show the class a few images of the environmental landscape of what it looked like in the Gold Rush era and what it looks like now. These images will be displayed below the description of the activity. Since the class has done research on the Gold Rush area, they would have prior knowledge of what kinds of mining for gold where done during this era and prior knowledge about their current era of society we live in now. The task for the children is to compare how the environment has changed from the discovery of gold and colonial exploration, and label these changes in the wiki page using the interactive whiteboard. When the children compare the environmental changes, it will be done as a class discussion. (10 minute activity)












 * After the class has done this, the next task is for the children to get into groups and create a timeline of the changes to the environmental landscape by finding pictures off the internet and cutting, pasting and decorating the images onto a large piece of coloured cardboard. The teacher will print off the images for the children once they have selected them off the internet. Once each group have got their images and put them into ascending order, they will come up to the front and present to the class their findings. Each group will have a turn at doing this and after this is done, they class will discuss each groups findings in regards to the environmental changes and eroisin that has occured over the years. When the children are collecting the images, decorating their cardboards and presenting to the class they have to comment on what type of erosin has occured over the years by analysing the images. (25 minute activity)
 * ==== To end this lesson, as a class discuss some of the consequences of colonial exploration and the discovery of gold on the environment while referring back to the information that was collected in the first two tasks. When the class is doing this activity, the teacher draws up a table on the interactive whiteboard with a column of positives and negatives about the colonial exploration and the discovery of gold. As the class is having a discussion about the positives and negatives, allow the students to come up to the front and write the classes responses in the table. Each child has a turn writing up some responses. When the class is discussing and writing up the responses, focus on simple sentences so each student has time to write a response on the board. Remember that the discussion is based on the environmental impacts and how the landscape has changes over the years due to these two eras (Gold Rush and colonial expansion). (10 minute activity) ====