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Remembrance-day. Australian Antarctic Division. Scott’s Hut and the Explorers’ Heritage of Antarctica – Google World Wonders Project. Classroom Antarctica. Facts about India - Woodlands. India is in south Asia.

Facts about India - Woodlands

India lies between Pakistan, China and Nepal. Quick Facts: The customary greeting is done by putting your palms together and with a slight nod of the head, saying "namaste. " More films are made in India ('Bollywood') than in the USA ('Hollywood')! Tailor Made Holiday Travel Brochures. India & Nepal 2013 - AU. Asia_2013-Indian_Subcontinent. India Geography TopicBox. Delve into this mystic topic.

India Geography TopicBox

From Indian villages like Chembakoli to culture and daily life. There's plenty to learn about through images and other resources. Children in India Images of children working in India. This couyld be adapted to suit a Chembakoll… View now India photographs Lovely selection of high quality photos… View now Indian animals Images and text to use to find out about the animals of India… View now Indian objects and dress A lovely Hitchams school site with glorious videos and pictures… View now Indian quiz A great quiz for KS2… View now Information about India.

Chembakolli. Snapshots of Asia - Downloadable Resources. Ancient India - The British Museum. Mughal India - The British Museum. 1 - Jaya Prakasa yantra, Jaipur, India. 2 - Jaya Prakasa yantra, Jaipur, India. The Great Samrat yantra, Jaipur, India. Small Samrat yantra, Jaipur, India. Nadivalaya yantra, Jaipur, India. Gold: Sites2See. NSW Curriculum and Learning Innovation Centre.

Do you know who 9 prepared the way for the discovery of gold in NSW?

Gold: Sites2See. NSW Curriculum and Learning Innovation Centre

Play Bathurst or bust 8 and discover how early settlers and convicts built a road across the Blue Mountains in NSW. See how gold discovery affected Australia’s environment14. Discover how Melbourne 15expanded with the gold rush. Did Aussie mateship16 begin with diggers on the goldfields? Meaning of land to Aboriginal people. What does land mean to Aboriginal people?

Meaning of land to Aboriginal people

Non-Indigenous people and land owners might consider land as something they own, a commodity to be bought and sold, an asset to make profit from, but also a means to make a living off it or simply ‘home’ [1]. For Aboriginal people the relationship is much deeper. The land owns Aboriginal people and every aspect of their lives is connected to it. They have a profound spiritual connection to land. NFSA Digital Learning - Digital resources using the clip - Gold Rush in the West.

Gold Rush in the West is an excerpt from the film Pipe Dreams (55 mins), the second episode of the three-part series entitled Constructing Australia, produced in 2007.

NFSA Digital Learning - Digital resources using the clip - Gold Rush in the West

Constructing AustraliaPolitics, tragedy and conquest combine in stories behind the building of Australia. The Bridge, Pipe Dreams, and A Wire Through the Heart, combine rare archival images with dramatic storytelling in showcasing three landmark events that would allow Australia to mark its place in the world. The Sydney Harbour Bridge, the Kalgoorlie Pipeline and the Overland Telegraph line were engineering triumphs, but the human drama in constructing Australia is even more fascinating. Pipe DreamsFrom the remote coast of Western Australia, to deep within its inhospitable interior, an immense water pipeline was being constructed that would unlock countless riches and help build the nation.

Pipe Dreams was produced with the assistance of ScreenWest and Lottery West. Gold rush – Flash interactive. ~ GOLD ~ Women on the goldfields, Daily Life, Gold fever and the Eureka rebellion, SOSE: History Year 9, QLD. No place for a lady For a woman living on the goldfields, life could be very harsh.

Women on the goldfields, Daily Life, Gold fever and the Eureka rebellion, SOSE: History Year 9, QLD

For many, one of the hardest things to bear was loneliness. If they had been brought to the diggings by their husbands, they were inevitably forced to spend many hours alone while their husbands worked to seek their fortune. This meant that they would frequently spend most of their time alone and have to face a range of dangers including snakes, illness and assault. An 1854 census of the Ballarat goldfields found there were 4023 women compared to 12,660 men living on the diggings and only 5 percent of these women were single. Eureka on Trial » Public Record Office Victoria - Archives of the State Government of Victoria. Eureka by Henry Lawson. Riot or Revolution (2005. This clip starts approximately 20 minutes into the documentary.

Riot or Revolution (2005

We are shown illustrations of a landscape scene of a port, men working in a minefields and a congregation of squatters. This is intermittently cut into a reenactment of an actor playing Governor Hotham accompany a narration. We hear sound effects of mean talking and chamber music under the narration. There is a portrait of La Trobe against a Union Jack, we then see illustration of men debating in parliament and diggers and policemen in mining camps. There is a graphic of a newspaper clipping that reads, ‘Abolition License Tax, Great Open Air Meeting, To the Public of Bendigo, Meeting, On Saturday next, August 26.

Narrator Most government revenue was raised through indirect taxes, primarily import duties. Actor playing Governor Hotham You ask me to do a very serious thing – to do away with a large portion of public revenue. Gold - Shaping our identity. Race to the gold diggings of Australia. A pot of gold at the end of the rainbow In 1851, Edward Hargraves (1816–1891) announced publicly that he had found gold outside Bathurst, New South Wales.

Race to the gold diggings of Australia

In the ensuing months, Australia’s mighty gold rush began and huge numbers of people from all walks of life rushed to the goldfields in the hope of making a fortune. Read the full story Race to the Gold Diggings of Australia is a boxed, children’s board game produced in England sometime in the 1850s. Inside a printed wooden box is a brightly coloured game board, a printed sheet of rules, six ships made of painted metal and painted wood (to be used as counters), two dice, three wooden pegs and a cardboard teetotum (spinning top). On the game board is an oval track that is divided into 80 sections which represent the voyage from England to Australia.

Harvest of Endurance. This house: settling in Ballarat: 1857 - 2000. Threatened Environments – Tropical Rainforests.