Early+Settlers+and+the+Goldfields

This page has links for learning about the early history and different people who settled in Otago
What do the two songs tell you about changes in attitudes from the Early settlers to those who arrived after 1860?
 * 1.Listen to the two audio tracks, one about Barr and one about Thatcher.

|| 2. Use the search function on the National Library site to find images that tell a story about life in early Otago. Select three images on a topic ( e.g. shipping, houses, clothing, gold) and save them to a presentation. Write about your interpretation as to what life was like then, and how that particular aspect changed over a span of approximately 50 years. Remember to acknowledge your source and hyperlink back to the site.

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 * 5. Why did the provincial governments want to find gold? What immediate impact did the discovery of gold have on New Zealand as a country?

|| 6. What impact did the discovery of gold have on Dunedin? List at least three short term consequences and also the long term implications.

|| media type="custom" key="7292093" || 8. Use the Te Ara site to complete a PMI of working the Otago goldfields. Select one 'minus' and draw a comic strip to demonstrate the problem.
 * = 7. Study the slideshow on how gold is extracted and answer the cloze exercises

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 * 9. List three methods used to get gold using the link from New Zealand Electronic text.



Select any one and draw a labelled diagram to help explain the process. || 10. Calculate the value of the gold taken from Gabriel's Gully

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 * 11. What evidence is there left to show the impact of gold mining on Otago?

|| 12. Write a diary entry from the perspective of a miner living in Lawrence. Use the information in this site to help you. [] ||
 * 13. Use the images and information in [|this site] to write a poem about gold mining in Central Otago. || 14. ||