Fascinating Gold Quest research findings
Hi Gold Quest researchers
What a great job each of the ten classes did with posting their introductions! It is most interesting to learn about both the similarities and differences between our two schools. For example, both schools have modern halls, COLA areas and large grass playing fields. However, Penrith PS is very lucky to have a fantastic art room, which unfortunately we don’t have at CCPS (we are all feeling very jealous!)
Now that we have all started on our Gold Quest research journeys, it would be wonderful if groups of students could please share 1 or 2 fascinating Australian Gold Rush facts that they have discovered.
Students at CCPS are very keen to learn about Australian bushrangers from their research “partners” at PPS and, in turn, I’m sure Penrith PS students would be thrilled to learn more detail about the Australian goldfields from CCPS students.
Perhaps you would also like to share your feelings about you research progress so far?
Mr McLean and I are so looking forward to reading your insightful postings!
Happy researching everyone!
Mrs Scheffers
Teacher Librarian @ CCPS
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June 11th, 2008 at 12:39 am
Hello everyone!
Yesterday, I announced to the first group of Penrith PS students just how they will be presenting their final product.
After choosing the Australian bushranger they feel was the most dangerous or notorious, and the highest priority for arresting, they must play “newspaper reporter” and upload a carefully-worded short article to a website called “Newspaper clipping generator”.
From there, they will create an colonial era clipping that resembles a “Wanted” announcement of the day. Photographs of bushrangers were very rare, so a written physical description will be an essential element of the article.
Possible word count is quite small on the site, so you must make every word count to catch your man (or woman)!
Good luck!
Mr McLean,
Penrith PS
June 12th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
Hi fellow researchers, Curtis and Timothy here.
We are going to tell you a short but interesting comment. Did you know that gold miners somtimes didn’t bath for about a week? Also we think thieves stole more gold from shaft miners than panners (just a guess). Maybe PPS can help us out?
We are feeling happy because we are doing great work in finding information and interesting facts.
Goodbye everyone and happy blogging
June 12th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
Hello Penrith Public School
Our names are Genna and Georgia from Caddies Creek. We hope you are finding lots of information on bushrangers and are having fun with your research. We have found a website containing profiles on famous Australian bushrangers.
It is http://scs.une.edu.au/bushrangers/biog.htm
We hope this helps
from Genna and Georgia @ CCPS
June 12th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
Hi Fellow Gold Diggers!
Did you know….
In Charter’s Towers when the first piece of payable gold was found, the Government offered £3000 for it.
We hope you find this piece of information useful. We think this subject is really interesting and hope to learn more about it in the future.
Thats all folks, and we hope to hear from you soon.
From Jason @ CCPS
June 12th, 2008 at 12:22 pm
Hi fellow bloggers from PPS!
Our names are Ursula and Akshay. We are in 5/6L at Caddies Creek P.S.
~DID YOU KNOW?~
○ Native Scottish gold is the purest gold in the world?
○ The chemical symbol for gold is Au, and in Latin that means ‘Shining Dawn’.
○ Gold was the first metal discovered by man.
○ Gold is referred as a precious and noble metal.
We hope those facts helped you learn more about gold.
Our difficulties have been finding information about Bathurst for our Gold Web Quest Booklet, otherwise we have have found the information pretty easily.
Happy blogging and researching
from Ürsula and Akshay
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June 12th, 2008 at 12:24 pm
Hello PPS Students,
My name is Bea and my partner Sarah and we have currently been researching on gold and its history. We are in class 5/6L and our teacher is Mr. Lehner.
While we were watching a DVD we found out that a license used to cost a man his whole year of wages. Did you know that some of the important early findings of gold were actually rejected by the goverment?
We look forward to reading your comments!!
Happy researching,
Students of CCPS
June 12th, 2008 at 12:24 pm
Hi everyone
We are Daniel and Hayden from 5/6L at CCPS.
In the Gympie goldfield £500 000 worth of gold was found in the first year, but in today’s society you will find this is worth millions of dollars.
We hope you enjoyed what we had to say.
Daniel and Hayden signing out.
Bye for now, not forever.
June 12th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
Hello Penrith Public School
Our names are Balwinder and Jake from Class 5/6L at Caddies Creek PS. Our teacher is Mr Lehner. We have learnt quite a lot about gold this term. We hope you have learnt a lot about bushrangers. Here are some interesting facts to help you with your research.
Did you know that Fred Lowry and two other bushrangers were part of the second biggest robbery that bushrangers ever committed in New South Wales? They bailed up the Mudgee mail coach and stole 5 700 pounds in old banknotes. Fred was born in 1836 and died on 30th August 1863.
We hope this helps you with your bushranger research.
Bye for now.
Jake and Balwinder.
June 12th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
Hello there students and teachers at Penrith PS,
Our names are Elyssa and Ashika and we are in 5/6L. Our teacher is Mr Lehner. He likes to make very funny jokes! Elyssa is in Year 6 while Ashika is in Year 5.
We have learnt lots of quite interesting information about gold. Here is some that we would like to share with you.
Did you know that the Bathurst goldfield was very crowded with hundreds and thousands of tents all very close together? There was little fresh water, you had to bring your own. Prices on the goldfields were also very high. There was also a shortage of food.
When a man called Mr Clarke discovered gold, he showed it to Governer Gipps, who said, probably to poor Mr Clarke’s surprise; ” Put it away Mr Clarke or we shall all have our throats cut. ”
We are all very much enjoying learning about gold in the library with our libarian Mrs Scheffers, and we look foward to hearing from you each week.
Elyssa and Ashika.
June 12th, 2008 at 12:32 pm
Hi PPS and CCPS
My name is Vanii and I go to CCPS and I am in class 5/6L.We have been learning about gold and I would like to share some facts with you.
Did you know that the first person to discover gold in Australia was actually a convict, but he didn’t think it was real gold so he left it?
The first people who found gold and made a profit from it were John Lister and William Tom, although Edward Hargraves claimed to have found it. John Lister and William Tom worked for Edward Hargraves and used to be in a partnership.
The largest nugget found in Australia was called the “Welcome Stranger” and weighed 78.3kg and then was melted and used to make jewellery.
Did you know the melting point of gold is 1063 degrees celsius?
I hope you like this information and it may help you in reseaching!
I am having a few difficulties with my partner and I but we always manage to get through it, otherwise I am really enjoying our unit on gold and I can’t wait to do our presentation!
Blog with you soon
Vanii
June 12th, 2008 at 2:35 pm
Hey Penrith and Caddies bloggers!
This is Regan, Nasi and Mataio of Caddies Creek’s 6S and we wan’t to give you some information on what we’ve discovered about gold.
First off, gold has been recycled from generation to generation, which means the gold necklace, bracelet or whatever you have that is gold could’ve belonged to a famous gold miner or scavenged by a thief or burglar.
Henry Parker and John Lister had actually discovered a gold nugget, with Hargraves taking all the credit and leaving them in the shadows (not literally).
By 1851, Australia had a 40,000 increase in population due to goldfields like Gympie and Bathurst.
Many races like Chinese, American and English came in search for gold!
There’s some information that you may or may not have known.
We’re looking forward to blogging with you soon,
from Nasirullah, Regan and Mataio.
June 12th, 2008 at 2:44 pm
Hi all you Penrith bushrangers!
This is Andrew and Navi blogging with you from CCPS as you know.
We are going to tell you at least two of our most interesting facts. Cool fact number 1: Edmund Hargraves did not find the first gold – it was actually William Tom and John Lester, Hargravers just took the credit.
Cool fact number 2: The population in California went from 1500-15 000 in less than one month!
We hope you have found these facts the smallest bit interesting because we know that you are full of knowledge about gold.
We have done a lot of research on this topic and have found a lot of infomation which has helped us a lot.
Well that’s all folks
from Andrew and Navi from 6S.
June 12th, 2008 at 2:44 pm
Hi fellow reseachers,
My name is Ashleigh and my partner’s name is Sarah. We have been working really well together as a team. Sarah and I are chosing Gympie as our gold field.
Did you know that over 200 ships fled to Australia from the Californian gold rush?
Blog with you again soon,
from Ashleigh and Sarah @ Caddies Creek Public School
June 12th, 2008 at 2:44 pm
Hello fellow bloggers!
We are Lauren and Gary from Class 6S at CCPS. We both enjoy researching about gold’s history.
INTERESTING FACT number 1
Edward Hargraves wasn’t really the first person to find payable gold in Australia – it was Tom and Lister. He just said it was him because Tom and Lister worked for him!
INTERESTING FACT number 2
Hargraves wanted gold because he wanted to prove that he could mine gold! It was his wish to find payable gold of his own.
So we hope you enjoy the blogging with everyone and we hope you find our information interesting!
From
Gary and Lauren @ CCPS
June 12th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
Hi Gold Bloggers
Our names are John and Bailey from Class 6S at Caddies Creek PS. Most of the time we work well together on our gold reserach but sometimes we have difficulties.
A fascinating gold fact that we have discovered is that many gold songs were created about the Australian Gold Rushes. There are two main types of gold mining- alluvial (surface) and shaft mining (underground).
We hope to learn more about gold and the bushrangers from our research partners at Penrith PS.
Happy blogging
from Bailey and John @ CCPS
June 12th, 2008 at 2:51 pm
Hi fellow researchers,
Our names are Savina and Nikita. You might think why our avatar is a picture of a snail. Well it’s from our favourite book that our teacher Ms Steward read to us. It’s from a book called ‘Just Stupid’ by the famous Aussie author Andy Griffiths, who very hilarious and creative.
Here are some interesting facts about gold..
* The Queen’s Birthday was cancelled because of the gold rush.
* Gold can be used for such things as jewellery, fine wire for electronics and other interesting things.
We hope these facts have helped you more with your gold knowledge.
Hope to speak (type) to you again some other time.
Saviniki
June 12th, 2008 at 2:53 pm
Hi Penrith and Caddies Creek Bloggers,
Our names are Maddison and Andrea. As you know we have been studying gold this term. We have found great infomation about gold.
Did you know that the Queen’s Birthday Ball was cancellled due to the goldrush? Also, America was invaded for gold; we didn’t know that until we watched a DVD on gold.
We hope you found our information interesting and hope you find more information on your topic.
Sincerely
Maddison and Andrea.
June 12th, 2008 at 2:56 pm
Hey bloggers of CCPS and Penrith Public School.
This is Billy and Momin from 6S Caddies Creek Public School. We are researching about gold. We would like to tell you interesting facts, not boring facts.
The 1st fact is that the gold licences were worth 30 shillings (30 shillings was alot of money and they had to pay it monthly). The miners were so angry that the government made the price so high that they started a revolt in Ballarat ,Victoria that is known as the Eureka Stockade.
The next intersesting fact is that Australian miners used to discriminate against the Chinese diggers and the Australian diggers burned down the Chinese Diggers’ tents and maybe even shot them.
Well bye bye for now. Please tell us about bushrangers and have a great time at school while you research.
From Billy and Momin 6S
June 12th, 2008 at 2:56 pm
Hi fellow bloggers we are students from CCPS !
Our names are Edwin and Elohim and our class name is 6S. Our class teacher is Ms Steward, she has curly hair [don't blame her].
We have learnt a lot about gold. Edward Hargraves didn’t find payable gold but Tom and Lester did. Hargraves got all the credit. Also a boy in Western Australia found 38 ounces of gold while just digging for fun.
We are getting along well as reserach partners and we both also hope we have no difficulties in the long run.
We hope you find other interesting facts soon
E and E out!!
June 12th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
Hi Penrith Public and Caddies Creek bloggers!
This is Akin and Rynel from Caddies Creek’s 6S class. We would like to give you some information that we have discovered about gold.
Gold, the only yellow metal, stands for the chemical symbol Au, which means Aurum. The Word Aurum comes from Latin. It has a density nearly twice like lead. Gold is a good conductor of electricity and heat, and is so malleable (bendable) that it can be rolled thin enough to allow light to pass through.
In 1823, James McBrien, a government surveyor, thought he saw gold near Bathurst in New South Wales. The explorer, Strzelecki, also found small specks of gold in 1830. William Clarke, a church minister, collected gold specimens and showed them to Governor Gipps in 1844. Governor Gipps’ response was, “Put it away, Mr. Clarke, or we shall all have our throats cut.”
We also found out that it is difficult to say who found gold first in Victoria. James Esmond found gold at Clunes in June 1851. At the same time, gold was discovered at Anderson’s Creek, near Warrandyte, by Louis Michel, a Melbourne publican. Both towns now claim to having the first gold discovery in Victoria.
We hope that you found our information helpful.
Bye for now and we hope you reply back.
from Akin and Rynel @ CCPS
June 12th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
Hi Penrith students and teachers,
This term Stage 3 are studying gold. We are getting along as partners. Sometimes we need to agree on more things and then we think we’ll get somewhere. Well enough about us and more about gold. We are learning a lot so far but we cant believe that this term is nearly over.
People travelled to the gold field by foot, horse, stagecoach and by dray, which was a cart pulled by a team of bullocks.
The Ballarat goldrush started in 1865.
Bye for now not forever!
from Rosee and Taylor at CCPS
June 16th, 2008 at 2:47 pm
Hello fellow students, this is Simran and Omid from C.C.P.S
We have started to find out information about gold. Mostly we found our information from a gold DVD. We discovered that you needed to buy a licence to mine gold. We also found out that gold is the heaviest metal on earth. Do you know that gold’s melting point is more than 1000 degrees celcius?
Thank you for reading our information; we hope you like it.
Bye from C.C.P.S
Have a good day.
June 16th, 2008 at 2:47 pm
Hi fellow bloggers,
I’m Benny from CCPS. I have been researching gold and would like to share some interesting facts.
Did you know that the Welcome Stranger and the Welcome Nugget are the heaviest nuggets ever found in Australia? The most famous Australian bushranger is Ned Kelly.
I hope my information has helped you!
Blog again with you later!
Benny
June 16th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
Hi fellow researchers,
My name is Georgia and my partner’s name is Denise. We have been working really well together as a team.
Denise and I are choosing Bathurst as our goldfield that we’d prefer to visit. Do you know that most nuggets were found in Bathurst and it is only 200km away from Sydney?
Blog with you again soon,
from Georgia and Denise @ Caddies Creek Public School
June 16th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
Hi to everyone at Caddies and Penrith,
As you know we have been researching about gold.
We have two interesting facts about gold to share with you. Did you know that 6.6 million ounces of gold was found at Charters Towers and that the “Welcome Stranger” nugget, which weighed 78.3 kg, was found in Ballarat?
We have enjoyed researching and blogging about gold because we lhave earned many useful facts. We hope you found these facts very interesting too.
We are looking forward to hearing more about bushrangers from the Penrith bloggers.
Hope you blog back, good luck researching everyone.
Dalbir and Dilroop @ CCPS
June 16th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
Hello Penrith and Caddies!
We are happy to share our knowledge with you and we hope you give us more information too, as we are also researching about gold and bushrangers.
Did you know that the Welcome Stranger weighed 70 kg and is the biggest piece of gold ever to be found in Australia followed by the Welcome Nugget which weighed 68.956 kg?
We hope this helps you with your gold quest.
from Franz and Mohsin
June 16th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
Hello CCPS and Penrith Public School.
I am working with my partner researching about the Australian Goldfields and we would like to share some information with you.
Did you know that Gympie was worked on for 60 years until the year 1927 and produced a total of 3.5 million ounces of gold? Also the Welcome Nugget was known to be the second largest gold nugget ever to be found and was sold to the mint to be made into gold coins. We hope you found this information interesting.
Good luck learning about the Australian goldfields and bushrangers.
From Maddi and Kaitlyn at CPPS
June 16th, 2008 at 2:51 pm
Hello fellow students,
You are reading Shivank’s and Paul’s blog comment. We are researching gold this term. We would like to share our research together.
Did you know that the second biggest piece of Australian gold is called ‘The Welcome Nugget’ and the biggest nugget is called the ‘Welcome Stranger’?
See you later fellow bloggers!
June 16th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
Hi everyone this is Cameron U and Ricky L.
We are from Caddies Creek Public School and we would like to share information about gold and its uses. We thought that you can’t bend gold but we were wrong. It can easily bent for it has high malleability.
Miners also drank alot of tea during their stay in the goldfields because the water in the goldfields was so dirty and had bactaria in it, so it was not a good idea to drink some.
Good luck researching everyone
From: Ricky and Cameron
June 16th, 2008 at 2:56 pm
Hi fellow bloggers from Stage Three classes.
This is Abhey and Neil from CCPS. We are in class 6J.
We would like to share information that we have learnt about gold this term. We have learnt a lot of valuable information about gold.
Do you bloggers know that gold was discovered in Australia before 1851? We found that the Eureka Stockade happened in 1854. We also learnt that gold was discovered in Western Australia too.
Freinds, do you know that John Lister, William Tom and James Tom helped Edward Hargraves find gold?
Neil and I hope you found that information interesting and helpful.
We have worked very co-operatively together and reseraching gold is really fun.
We hope that you have a good term learning about gold.
BYE!
June 16th, 2008 at 2:56 pm
Hey this is Emily and Sara from 6J,
This term we have been learning about Gold. We have been really interested because gold
is so cool. We would like to share ome of our infomation with you.
One of our gold facts is that Edward Hargraves was the first person to start a gold rush in Bathurst, Australia. Edward Hagraves spent almost 20 years looking for gold.
His occupation was gold mining. Edward was a mean cheating man. He got his partners to find gold for him. Then they found some gold and he used his ypung partners by taking the gold to the Government and getting his name published in the paper and never said anything about his partners.
Our second gold fact is that gold is used to make jewellery and wire for electronics and for filling cavities in teeth.
We are very happy to be learning about gold in the library and also in the class room.
We hope you like our information.
Good bye From Emily and Sara in 6J
June 16th, 2008 at 2:58 pm
Hi fellow bloggers,
We are Meena and Keikilani from Class 6J at CCPS. As you know we have been researching about gold throughout this whole term. We would like to share a few interesting points about gold.
First of all gold, is the heaviest metal on Earth. Around 70% of gold found from underground is melted into jewellery. Can you believe that the gold jewellery you wear is so heavy!!!
Second of all the chemical symbol of Gold is AU. Thirdly, the boiling point of gold is 2660 degrees Celsius and the melting point is 1060 degrees Celsius.
The uses of gold are:
1. Jewellery
2. Cavities in teeth
3. Electronic wires
4. Spacecrafts
5. Satellites
We found the research very interesting and we hope you did as well!
from Meena and Keiki! Thanks for your time.
June 16th, 2008 at 2:59 pm
Welcome Stranger! (Do you get it – the nugget ‘Welcome Stranger’?)
This is Breana and and Emily from 6J at Caddies Creek PS. We aren’t that far through our web quest yet but we have already learnt a lot of information about the Australian Gold Rush.
We have been working very well together as a team.
Did you know that in December 1854 in Ballarat, a group of miners led by Irish digger Peter Labor, burned their licences, took up their guns, built a fort at Eureka, and dared the troopers to attack them?
We hope you blog back!
BYE!!!!!!!!!!
June 16th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
Hello students from CCPS and PPS,
This term we have been studying gold and we are enjoying it, lots.
Here are two very interesting facts that we want to share with you:
* Did you know that Charters Towers is nearly 2000km away from Sydney? (Thats a long walk as they did not have aeroplanes or cars back then!)
* Some types of ways to find gold are: panning, mining, underground mining and cradling. Cradling is where you have a cradle like object made out of wood and you take a bucket load of water out of a river or lake and stick it in the top, rocking it from side to side and the metal stays in as it is very heavy.
Josh and I are enjoying working together as we are a great team and enjoy working together. We like researching this subject as it is very interesting.
Thank you for taking your time to read this comment about gold and happy blogging,
from Joey and Josh!!!!
June 16th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
Hi this is Brian and Andy from CCPS
We have really liked researching about gold and bushrangers. Did you know that it takes 1000 km to travel from Gympie to Sydney? Gympie is a historic goldfield located in Queensland.
Blog with you again soon
Brian and Andy
June 16th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
Hi Penrith Public School and CCPS
We are Stephanie and Teagan. We have heard that you are learning about bushrangers and we would like to share some facts about Ned Kelly with you.
Ned Kelly was born at Beveridge in 1854 and was hung on November 11th in 1880. Sorry that’s all we can give you. We hope this helps you with your research.
From Stephanie and Teagan in Class 6J at Caddies Creek Public School.
June 18th, 2008 at 6:06 am
Hi all you crazy Caddies Creek rappers!
We are only able to spend one lesson each week on our bushrangers research, and there never seems to be enough time to post blog entries as well.
You have so many questions and fascinating facts! Well done. We will try to find time to post.
We are just about to create our special “news clippings” about the bushranger we’ve selected to be “most notorious” or “most dangerous”. The articles will be created with The Newspaper Clipping Generator website.
Best wishes,
penrithpsrappers @ Penrith PS
June 18th, 2008 at 7:48 am
Hi everyone,
Congratulations on the quality of your posts. I am very impressed with the quality of information you are submitting and the great language that you are using. Keep it up. Looks like 5/6L will get their own blog next term if we can organise it!
Look forward to reading what is coming up next.
Bye for now,
Mr Lehner
June 18th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
Hello fellow bloggers,
This is Donitella and Amy. We have been learning about gold. We would like to share some facts about gold with you. Did you know that Edward Hargraves started the gold rush in Bathurst and he spent 20 years looking for gold!
We are enjoying doing the research and we are finding it a bit challenging. We have had some problems with some things like researching the goldfields but now we going fine.
We hope that you are having fun learning about bushrangers.
Sincerely
Donitella and Amy at CCPS.
June 18th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
Hello Penrith and Cadies Creek Public Schools
We are Arya and Junior and we are from CCPS. We are researching about gold and we are here to tell you some facts about gold! Did you know that gold is 19% heavier than water? Gold is a very good conductor of electricity. If you had a piece of gold, a battery and a light bulb, you could find out how good it is.
We are having some difficulties with our research. It was hard researching lots of things and writing them down but now we’re almost finished and have completed our researching and notetaking. We also had trouble finding distances between towns and etc.
We hope to blog with you again!
June 18th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
Hi this is Kirat and Megan from CCPS.
We heard that you are learning about bushrangers. We have been learning about the Australian goldfields.
Here are some fascinating facts:
* Tom and Lister were the first men who found gold near Bathurst, NSW.
* Before you were allowed to look for gold you had to buy a licence.
* The major early Australian goldfields were at Bathurst, Ballarat, Charters Towers and Gympie.
The research has been difficult for us because we found it hard to find information for each goldfield. We had to use different resources (such as various Internet sites, non fiction books and atlases), which took a lot of time. We are having fun learning about gold.
From Megan and Kirat at CCPS.
June 18th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
Hey Penrith Public School and Caddies Creek Public School
We are Emily and Brittany from Caddies Creek PS. and we have been learning about gold this term. We like learning about gold because it is a very fascinating mineral. We are going to tell you some information about gold.
* Did you know that more than 22 thousand miners went to the Bathurt goldfield?
* The mines in Chartetrs Towers and Gympie helped to build the city of Brisbane.
* The miners in Ballarat made a special blue and white flag for the Eureka Stockade.
* Gold can also be found on quartz.
* At the Bathurst goldfields, a lot of people could not afford things because prices for supplies and eqipment were very high.
* Did you know that Bathurst was a very unhygienic place because of the overcrowding, lack of toilets and heaps of rubbish?
We are feeling very happy and excited about learning about gold. It is such a special mineral.
We are excited to be learning about bushrangers with you. Please share your infomation about bushrangers.
Happy blogging with you Caddies Creek and Penrith Public School students,
From Brittany and Emily in Fantastic 5Q
June 18th, 2008 at 12:32 pm
Hi Penrith and Caddies Creek Public Schools
We are from CCPS. Our names are Connor and Brandon. We are both are in Class 5Q.
We have had fun researching about gold. Did you know that James Nash was the not just the first person to find gold in Gympie, but that he also found 75 oz in 6 days? In Bathurst there were 12,000 children living on the goldfields.
We were both away when people chose their partners so we got stuck together and we are working very well together. The research has been hard but we have got through it and had fun on the way.
Sincerely
Connor and Brandon
June 18th, 2008 at 12:32 pm
Hi fellow bloggers,
It’s just Stefan and Youssef here.
We are learning a lot about Gold. We know that the heaviest piece of gold weighed 78.9kg and was called the Welcome Stranger. Women use to carry guns to protect themselves, as well as men. We bet you don’t know that there were a lot of goldfields in Australia.
We are enjoying learning about Gold from using different resources such as the Internet and Gold DVDs. We found researching information about different goldfields challenging but got through it in the end.
Thanks for reading our message.
From Stefan and Youssef.
June 18th, 2008 at 12:34 pm
Hi fellow researchers,
We are Jonathan and Reece and we are from CCPS and we have an interesting fact to tell you. The fact is the cradle, sieve and pan aren’t actully from Australia they are from California in America and were invented by American goldminers.
Our research is going well and we have found a lot of information about Gold.
Bye for now,
Jonathan and Reece.
June 18th, 2008 at 12:37 pm
Hi fellow bloggers,
This is Lucas and Blake from CCPS.
We are on track with our work. Did you know that James Linch was the first person in Charters Towers to find gold and James Nash was the first person to find gold in Gympie?
We have had difficulties with using the atlases and sometimes we don’t agree on somethings but we try our best. Also, we can’t find some of the answers to all of the questions. We are working ahead and now we are creating our presentations on the best goldfield to mine gold at.
We’re finding it harder drafting our recount for our final presentation.
Hope we can blog again soon.
Sincerely Blake and Lucas.
June 18th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
Hello Gold Miners of C.C.P.S and P.P.S
We have been studying Gold and its values. We have learnt some interesting facts that we are dying to tell you about. One of them is – did you know that 500,000 pounds of gold was transported from Ballarat? In 1858 the Welcome Stranger nugget was found near Ballarat and it weighed 78.3 KG. The local Aboriginal people named the nettle tree Gympie which means devil, devil. There is also a thing known as crystal Gold.
We are going very well with our research except for a few problems. We are finding it easy because we work well together. We are having a lot of fun doing this research. We hope you feel the same way about your research. We hope to blog with you again.
Goodbye for now,
Cameron and Jake.
June 18th, 2008 at 12:41 pm
Hi Penrith Public School bloggers,
We are enjoying learning about Gold and I hope you like researching Bushrangers.
Did you know that women used weapons to protect themselves from bushrangers? Did you know that the Welcome Stranger nugget was 60 cm long and 30 cm high?
We would like to share more information with you when we have time.
With best wishes from Ecem in 5Q.
June 19th, 2008 at 10:16 am
Hi to all the Gold Bloggers at C.C.P.S and P.P.S.
I’m Josiah and unfortunately my parterner is away. We have been learning about gold and the Australian Gold Rush. Here are some interesting facts that I’d like to share with you:
Firstly, gold miners liked to eat damper and they needed flour to make it. They also used tea leaves to make a drink of hot tea.
Secondly, miners used lots of tools to help them mine gold. They could use a pick, an axe, a pan, a cradle, a bucket, a shovel and a windlass.
When they went panning they sometimes wouldn’t find a lot of gold. The gold they did find was called alluvial gold, which means it is in the water. When they went mine shafting (underground) they might find a lot of gold. They could have even become rich.
Farewell Gold Bloggers.
from Josiah in 5O, C.C.P.S.
June 19th, 2008 at 10:16 am
Hi everybody from Penrith PS
How are you going with your bushranger reseach? Our names are Mitch, Alex and Jamie. Ee are going well with our reseach. Did you know that gold’s melting point is 1063 degrees Celsius?
Gold cannot tarnish or rust. How amazing is that! Gold is the heaviest metal in the world. WOW!Countries had wars over gold and bushrangers stole gold.
Bye for now.
June 19th, 2008 at 10:17 am
Hello students from PPS and CCPS,
We are Taila and Loren from class 5O at CCPS We have been studying gold for the past term and have been researching in the Library during CPT.
We would like to share some interesting facts with you.
Did you know that gold is the heaviest metal on Earth and is not worth more than diamonds?
Also in some goldfields, there was more gold on the paths from horseshoes, instead of in the gold mines.
In 1823 James McBrien found gold in the Blue Mountains by using a cradle in the water. He gave this peice of gold to his boss, Edward Hargreaves and Hargreaves got all the credit because he was the one who showed the Government. The Government didn’t take any notice, when people started to find more and more gold the gold rush began in Australia.
We have been studing this subject for a while and we are having a few problens such astrying to find information and then putting it into our own words and not co-operating with each other.
Thank you for reading our blog cooment. Hopefully we gave you some information you didn’t already know about gold.
Blog with you soon…
Taila and Loren
June 19th, 2008 at 10:20 am
Hello,
This is Nick and Josh here and we’d like to share some interesting facts about gold.
Did you know that the Chinese weren’t welcome to share the land with the Aussies, so they were driven away from the goldfields?
We learnt that women and children came to the goldfields later on. The women did housework and looked after the children. It was hard work. They had to use a scrubbing board to wash the clothes and use a tub. The clothes were very dirty because of all the digging.
We’d love to share more info with you but we don’t have much time left.
Look forward to sharing this blog with you again,
Bye!
June 19th, 2008 at 10:21 am
Hi Gold Bloggers
We are Jessie and Aysheena in class 5O at Caddies Creek Public School and we would like to share some interesting facts with you.
1) Wars were fought for gold!
2) 200 ships from Austalia went to California to mine gold!
3) Hargraves was the first to find gold dust in Australia.
4) Dentists use gold for fillings (do you know how much your mouth is worth?)
We are having lots of fun researching about Australian goldfields. We have had trouble finding some information, but otherwise we are coping fine.
Look foward to blogging with you again,
Sincerely Jessie and Aysheena.
June 19th, 2008 at 10:23 am
Hi bloggers.
We are Shonal and Harpreet from CCPS. This term we have been researching gold. Here are some interesting facts we found. Did you know that gold’s boiling point is 1660 degrees Celsius? Another fact is that 75% of gold is used for jewellery. Gold is quite soft. It is slightly harder than a fingernail but, not as hard as a coin or glass. We hope to share more information with you later.
From Shonal and Harpreet, Class 5O.
June 19th, 2008 at 10:24 am
Hello bloggers
Bec and Jas here from class 50 with Miss O’Connor.
Today we are going to talk about gold. We know that gold is the heaviest metal and that in Victoria there was about 10,000,000 of gold that was found.
blog with you soon
bec and jas
June 19th, 2008 at 10:28 am
Hi fellow students, our names are Adem and Rhys from Caddies Creek PS and we have loved learning about gold.
Did you know that miners were injured, robbed and even killed for their gold? We will tell you more about gold the next time we come to CPT in the Library.
Thanks for reading our information about gold.
Bye for now!
June 19th, 2008 at 10:28 am
Hello fellow bloggers.
We are Wade and Jessica from class 5O with Miss O’Connor. How are you going with your researching about bushrangers?
We would like to share some infomation with you. Did you know that one of the goldfields, Charters Towers is 1880km away from Sydney? Or that the first gold found in Bathurst was on the 7th of October 1816? Did you also know that between 1872 and 1917 they found 200 tonnes of gold at Charters Towers? Thats amazing!
Blog with you soon,
Wade and Jessica.
June 19th, 2008 at 10:37 am
Hi it’s Kane and Hamid here
We are researching the goldfields of Gympie, Bathurst, Ballarat and Charters Towers. If you were going to go to the gold fields you would need a shovel, bucket, cradle, food and water. The largest peice of gold found in Australia weighs over 60kg.
That’s all the information for you for now
Bye
June 20th, 2008 at 11:54 am
Hi fellow bloggers,
This is Tas and Josh from class 5R at CCPS. We have been researching gold and learning new
things that we didn’t know before. Most of the information has been easy to find but we had some trouble getting information about Bathurst.
Happy blogging,
Tas and Josh
June 20th, 2008 at 11:55 am
Hi people at Penrith Public School
We have been working as research partners for 8 weeks. We have being working very well together and have achieved alot.
We found out that a 12 year old boy in Charters Towers discovered the first sings of gold, whilst out looking for lost horses.
We hope you have learnt some new thing new about gold.
Thanks.
Sincerly your friends Alex and Thomas.
June 20th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
Hi this is Tristen and Areesha from CCPS.
We have been studying about gold. We are from 5R and our teacher’s name is Mr Roberts.We have been researching the goldfields of Gympie, Bathurst, Ballarat and Charters Towers.
Gold is a heavy metal that weighs over 19 times more than water and is almost twice as heavy as a lead. Gold is a very valuable metal and it can’t rust.
We’ll blog with you soon.
BYE
June 20th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
Hi Penrith Public,
It’s Ura and Puneet here. We’re in 5R with Mr Roberts.
Did you know that miners and diggers, even ladies carried weapons with them to protect themselves from the bush rangers?
Classes 50,5Q and 5R are watching episodesof life on the gold fields and discoveries of Edward Hargraves.
We will like to know more from our Penrith buddies about bushrangers.
Happy blogging!
Bye for now.
June 20th, 2008 at 12:05 pm
Hi fellow Penrith bloggers,
We are Nicky and Kudzayi from class 5R at CCPS.
Here are two facts we have learnt during our research:
Did you know that gold can be hammered into sheets so thin that a pile of them an inch high would contain upto 200 000 sheets?
Did you know that the Queen’s Birthday Ball was cancelled because of the gold rush?
We hope you found these facts interesting as we did.
Good luck with your research
Nicky and Kudzayi
June 20th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
Hi there Penrith Bloggers!
We are Thulitha and Denna from CCPS.
Did you know that the richest gold area in Victoria was Bendigo? It has produced 3000 tonnes of gold. In today’s money, that would be worth 32 billion dollars.
Did you know that if you were to pull a string of gold, it would reach 3 km? Gold is one of the most prized resources of the Earth. Gold’s atomic mass is 196.97 kilos. Its boiling point is 2660 degrees celsius.
We hope to hear from you.
Thulitha and Denna.
June 20th, 2008 at 12:14 pm
Hi Penrith P.S,
Our names are Chloe and Nadine in Class 5R at CCPS. So far we have been researching about gold. At school, 5R did an assembly presentation with facts about gold.
Here are two facts we found interesting. Did you know that during the 1850’s after the rich finds in Victoria, Australia produced about 40% of the world’s gold? Another fact is that gold melts at 1060 degrees celsius.
Thanks for blogging with us.
From 5R Rich Rangers Chloe and Nadine!
June 20th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
Hi this is Tametai and Cody,
We have been learning about gold this term. Did you know that gold can be hammered into sheets so thin that light can pass through it? It can’t rust or tarnish. In 1823 James McBrien Found gold near Bathurst.
We would like to learn about the bushrangers who stole gold from miners, from the students at P.P.S.
Bye for now.
June 20th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
Hi our names are Gemma, Katelyn and Laiken,
We have been researching gold for the past few weeks but we haven’t got that much done, because we are talk alot.
We would like to tell you what equipment you need when you go gold mining. You could use a pan, a cradle, a pick or a shovel. You would also need a tent, food and water if you want to live. That’s all the information for now.
Yours sincerely,
Gemma, Laiken and Katelyn
Happy blogging!!!!!
June 20th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
Hello fellow bloggers
Our names are Tehiwi and Kaylyn. We are from Caddies Creek Public. Did you know that 3.5 million ounces of gold was found in Gympie and Gympie is an Aboriginal word for “Devil Devil”?
We hope to blog with you soon
from Tehiwi and Kaylyn.
June 20th, 2008 at 1:32 pm
Hi Penrith P.S,
Our names are Harsahib and Shabaz from class 5R in CCPS.
Did you know?
* Ballarat became one of the world’s richest goldfield.
* Charters Tower was known as ‘The World’ for the gold diggers because alots of gold was found there.
* Gold can be moulded to give any shape. You can even prepare super thin gold sheets.
Our research is going well and we are finding information easily but we struggle sometimes.
We hope that you have learned something about gold and hope to recieve your response very soon!!
Bye for now!!
June 24th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
Hello everyone!
Thanks for all your wonderful facts on gold.
We’ve had a few interruptions to our bushranger research at Penrith PS but we finally have some finished products to show you! Today, the first group of Penrith PS students completed their articles made at the great website called “Newspaper clipping generator”.
Just click on PPS bushranger bounties tab – or the hyperlink http://goldquest.edublogs.org/pps-bushranger-bounties/ – and scroll down that page. Come back often to see more articles each day.
Enjoy!
Mr McLean,
Penrith PS