Ways+of+Life

__**INTRODUCTION**__ This first lesson will concentrate on students looking at the different ways of life associated with the gold rush era and colonial expansion from different perspectives, including those of women, children, Aboriginal people, Chinese people, miners and settlers.

__**TASK**__
 * The first part of this lesson will be for students to get into groups of 3 and brainstorm together what ways of life existed in that time. This is to be based of knowledge from previous class lessons and the internet will not to be used. The students are to write down what they brainstorm in a mind map on A3 paper and stick it up so that they may continuously add to it as the lesson progresses. The teacher will be walking around to assist groups that are stuck and offer support. (10 minute duration)


 * The second part of this lesson will be to expand on their knowledge students role is to each pick one different way of life from the mind map they previously created and use the internet to explore and gather more in depth knowledge of it creating a fact page that includes the main details of that way of life and also pictures to show and give examples. This part of the lesson will be done in a computer lab so that every student has access to a research at the same time. The teacher will be moving around the class helping students that are having trouble finding information and monitoring what students are looking up. (15 minute duration)


 * The third and final part of the lesson is once again to be done in groups of 3 or 4. The students role is to use the information which they have just found and create a short role play to show to the class about about their way of life. Groups are to show how they think these people with different ways of life would have communicated with each other in that time. Each group of students are to show the class their performance when completed. The teacher will be assisting groups in aspects they are not sure of while going around to each group. ( 20 minute duration)