Our Hard Road Ahead Unit

EUREKA! This term for my first camp me and my fellow year 5 went to Sovereign Hill. We had so much fun and when we came back we made a diorama about Sovereign Hill. But we called it our Hard Road Ahead Diorama. Life in the 1850s was hard because when the gold rush hit people where finding the gold so fast that the government had to come up with a licence called the gold licence. When you where mining if you didn’t have a licence or you didn’t pay the amount of a gold licence you would be tied to a log until you paid for the licence or you would be arrested.  

In the 1850s their where quit a few shops. Some of the shops sold dresses, medicine, food, horse shoes, and wood. There are also A  couple hotels one hotel is The United States Hotel. Peter Lalor was an important figure back in the 1850s because he led the uprising in the Eureka Stockade against the administration. Governor Hotham is also important  because he was in command when the Eureka Rebellion occurred. 

The Eureka Stockade was a fight against the government. The minors  had this fight because the miners didn’t want to have to pay for the gold licence anymore. 22 minors died, 13 soldiers, and 1 women. The Eureka Stockade was on the 3 of December 1854 at 5:00 am. The Stockade only lasted 15 minutes. Some important dates are 1851 because that was when gold was first found after thousands of people came to find their fortune. Another date is the 3 December 1854 at 5:00 am. That was when the Eureka Stockade. 

My building and profession was the United States Hotel. We all got a partner and did a diorama. The United States Hotel was a Hotel  but it also had a bar downstairs. The hotel is conjoined to the Victorian Theatre. Nowadays you can’t stay in the hotel but you can buy drinks. 

Some other things I learned and applied to during this unit was maths when we had to do a mapping activity and program robots to go around our diorama. Another thing was writing because we had to make a newspaper article on our building. My newspaper was about a shooting out the front of the United States Hotel.

   My newspaper article .

The PLAs I used was Thinking because when I was working me and my partner hit a lot of challenges and we solved the by thinking and imagining what would happen. I also used Relationships because we had to communicate, collaborate and share different ideas.  

Some challenges where not knowing what to do. We overcame those by talking and sharing ideas.A major highlight was sharing our dioramas with our parents. I liked this because our parents could see what we worked on. I enjoyed making the newspaper articles and being wanted on one of the articles. I also enjoyed programming the robots it was a bit of trial and error. I would tell people to do what ever they think would look the best and just go with what you know. Something I would do differently is maybe add a bit more detail and things in our diorama. I learned how my partner works and what he is able to do. I also learned who I work well with and who I don’t. My experience was awesome and it was a whole lot of fun making our dioramas and going to Sovereign Hill.

What was your favourite part of our Hard Road Ahead unit? Why?

My First Camp

 

Term three week two. For my first camp year 5 went to Sovereign Hill. It was about a two and half hour drive (which was loud). Me and Keira sat next to each other. One thing that I didn’t know was that in the 1850’s you needed a mining licence in order to mine for gold. My favourite part of camp was doing the school program. I like doing that because work in the 1850’s was way more gripping and fun. Wether when I do work in 2019 it’s boring.

Some emotions I felt during the school program was when the teacher brought out the cane and started threatening us. When the teacher did that I felt a little bit scared. To make this program better I wouldn’t change anything because when I did the school program I actually felt like I was in the 1850’s. 

I had such a good time at Sovereign Hill. I hope that you will visit Sovereign Hill and try to do the school program. I bet you would have as much fun as I did.