Viewpoints

__**Introduction:**__
In this lesson, the students will participate in 3 activity that examines the viewpoints of women and of Aboriginal, Chinese and British people about the events, people and actions associated with the gold rush era in Australia. The students willl be engaging in group activities, research based activities and reflective activities in order to complete the activities. The task page below will go over what the students have to do to achieve this outcome and what link they will need in order to complete some of the activities.

__**Task Page:**__
> The following URL is the video link:@http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmE2Kn_RgzE
 * The role of the students is to research on the internet and map out which cultural groups were involved in the gold rush era in Australia. When students are researching these features, indentify cultural beliefs, the working and everyday lifestyle and the social attitudes at the time. During this research, also identify female roles in this era and their role in society. 2 children will be researching on the computer while the rest of the group will be writing down the information on a large piece of paper on their desks. Each group has a choice of how they want to format their information on the large piece of paper while the teacher assists groups while having time as a whole group to edit/decorate their information page. (15 minutes duration)
 * Using the knowledge from the research that was done above, the task or role for the children is to watch the following video and take note of the social attitudes, the events and the actions associated with the gold rush era in Australia. After this, the students write a reflection into their exercise books about what you saw in the video and reflect back on the previous knowledge you have learnt in the first activity. Once the students have written this down, they will engage in a think-pair-and-share with the person next to them. This will be set up as a whole class activity. The role of the students is to look back at this historical era in the view of these cultural groups and gaining a sense of how they felt during this time. (15 min)


 * To finish off this lesson, the class looks at the image below and all together labels the working class and the upper class individuals. Once the children have done this, as a class write up on the interactive whiteboard a short journal entry. This journal entry will be focused on the viewpoints of these people in the below picture and how they might of felt about the events, people and actions associated with the Gold Rush era. You are taking on the role of these people and using the information in the first two activities to culturally examine the Gold Rush era. The role of the teacher is to scribe the information onto the interactive whiteboard while the role of the student is to give the teacher what sentences to write into the short journal entry.