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Task 2: Define the term "EUREKA". Why did the people led by peter lalor use this term when thay wanted to be allowed to vote? When peter Lalor joined the Ballarat reform league he became the spokesman for the group. Peter protested to the government for the miners to be able to vote. When the government was getting complaints from the miners, the miners were eventually allowed to vote. They would use the term EUREKA! Shouting it with triumph and joy, to show how happy they were to be allowed to vote.

TASK 6: study a group that was present on the goldfields such as women, Aborigines or the chinese. how was life different for them? ** THE WOMEN ** **When husbands left to go to the gold rush in Australia the women would have to struggle with the kids.they usually the family would have to survive on a little amount of money, while the husbands went off to live and work on the diggings. ****Some women had gone to Australia to go on to the goldfields, a few women were diggers, some where shopkeepers or grew fruit and vegetables. ****A few years later the women and thier families would go and join there husbands to live with them when the conditions improved, however there were ALWAYS more men than women on the goldfields, it was a hard life for all. Even though the women were living with there husbands, many of the women would go live in town with thier children. ****When the women did live with the men some of thier jobs were washing, ironing and cooking. The women would also make bread butters, soap and clothes for there family. ****Living at the diggings was very tough, the living conditions were extremely cramped. Because the alluvial mining muddied the water, clean and drinkable water was extremely hard to find. Often fresh water was bought into the diggings from the town and bought by the amount in the bucket it cost alot! also fresh vegetables and fruit was scarce so most of the families wouldn't get much nutrition because it was an ex-y amount to pay. ****When a lady gave birth she was usaully assisited by other women in the diggings. Not many women knew there way around pregnancy or illness to assist a women in child birth. Many women died while giving birth. ****When deseases came such as scarlet fever, whooping cough, measeles and typhoid. many men women and children died. ****Some women had jobs as entertainers who performed around many gold fields. Tthe most famous of these was Lola Montez. she was best known for her spider dance, and was immensly popular wherever she went. **** A women Margaret Kennedy found gold in the famous Bendigo goldfields, she saw gold in a creek bed in September 1851. Margaret Kennedy and a friend washed the gold useing a bread making pan. Within a few months there were about 20,000 people searching for gold in that area. **

**task 27: choose a word you have learned in this unit on "gold!' Research it's meaning and origin using a dictionary and other sources. find out as much as you can about the concept. present your findings in a dynamic way. **

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 * I like Coady's sparklee title**
 * I like Alana's Jesus**
 * I like Abie's professor**
 * I like Annabelle's Engage me**
 * I like Antony's voki**
 * I like April's photoshow's**
 * I like Jesse's engage me answers**
 * I like Bianca's title**
 * I like Emily's funny photo**




 * What immediate thoughts come to mind when watching this clip?**
 * If they are all so good with technology why are they using cardboard to use as words instead of using a computer?
 * what's the point of bringing your own technology when we already have enough as it is at our school.
 * it's goo d sometimes to sometimes blog things on the internet soother people can view it.
 * it is better to participate in class reklated things then just fiddling around on technology.
 * it doesn't help to be creative if you don't have much fun doing it on the computer rather then doing a poster or gathering with friends organizing to do things with an assignment.

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 * Think about your time as a student at school...How are you best engaged by your teacher? **
 * 1) I think I am best engaged when my teacher get us to go in groups to do activities or to do a set of things that my teacher's has on the smartboard for the whole day
 * 2) also when the teacher gets each class to go into different classes throughout the grade.
 * 3) another time is when my teacher get us to do games while learning like buzz off hairy legs. it's fun to do while where still learning.

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 * What could we be doing as a school to continue to engage you as a 21st century learner?**
 * Give us more opportunities to write blogs for school work. it is eco friendly and very economical.
 * Allow ebooks to be available either in the library or in classes, or we could have the ebooks on the smartboard and the whole class reads it instead of just the teacher.
 * Rotating classes between grades
 * groups of students create presentations on specific topics and go to the younger grades and talk about them or play games about it e.g. environment issues, global warming,things to advance schools, safety precautions etc.

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