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  [|Reading Enriches Learning]  The Reading Enriches Learning website aims to stimulate and motivate all students to become confident readers. Each themed collection highlights a topical issue (i.e. Values, History, Sustainability) that is critical to Australian schooling today. These themes act as a springboard for learning as students actively make connections between literature and the world in which they live. The array of books featured in Reading Enriches Learning has been carefully selected and written by well-known Australian authors. 

Early Stage One Weather/Seasons

[|Click here] for lessons on clouds, seasons, air pressure, winds, global warming, and violent weather. Includes activities and projects.

[|Click here] for links to sites about the four seasons

[|Click here] for a series of interactive whiteboard  screens provide pupils with information and activities related to th e seasons. Suitable for interactive whiteboard.   Stage One  Workers in the Community <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 80%;">[|Click here] for a variety of resources related to the topic of Workers in the Community. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">[|Click here] for this simple website  where the learner reads a sentence about community workers such as librarian, letter carrier, teacher, fire fighter, police officer and nurse and matches the description to the picture.

<span style="color: #00ff00; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;"> <span style="color: #00ff00; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;">Stage Two <span style="color: #00ff00; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;"> <span style="color: #00ff00; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;"> <span style="color: #00ff00; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;"> <span style="color: #00ff00; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;">Stage Three
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">GOLD **

**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15px;">Click here ** **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">for access to more than 30 links, webquests and other resources on gold. ** //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Further websites: // <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**[|Click here]** **for** **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Gold! from Kidcyber is written in easy language. It contains information about gold discoveries, a map showing the main Australian goldfields, searching for gold, life on the goldfields women on the Australian goldfields, and Chinese at the goldfields. **

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**[|Click here] This site provides information about the discovery of gold in Australia, life on the diggings, women on the goldfields, immigration and population and other history related to the 1850's.**

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**[|Click here]** **This site was based on life on the Victorian Goldfields at the time of the 1853 Gold Fields Petition. Material from the State Library collection is presented to describe the trip to the diggings, life under canvas, entertainment, mining methods and impact on the land.**

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**[|Click here] The Electronic Encyclopedia of Gold in Australia is a database that tells the story of gold through images, stories and multimedia interactives. Topics include commerce and industry , geology and environment, golden metropolis (Melbourne), heritage and cultural, immigration and ethnicity, indigenous peoples, law and order, mining technologies , people, places, social and domestic life, telling the national story (gold rushes) and travelling.**

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**[|Click here] Gold Mining in New South Wales is an online book, by Carol McNeill, about a Welsh gold miner William Joseph Williams. Descriptions of life in Wales, convicts, goldfields and life as a grazier are included in the book.**

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**[|Click here]Women on the goldfields by Peter Butters gives a brief outline of the role of women  and the numbers of women on the Ballarat goldfield.**

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">- information on Edward Hargraves, gold in Victoria, the diggings. From SBS
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Gold Rush ** || **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Chinese on the Goldfields ** ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">[|Discovery of gold]

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">[|Eureka Stockade timeline] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">- from the Eureka Centre

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">[|Gold!] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">- easy to read information on the Australian Gold Rush. From kidcyber

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">[|Golden Victoria] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">- information on finding gold, life on the gold fields and impact on society, Eureka Stockade. From State Library of Victoria

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">[|Gold Rush]Interactive game <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">- recognise the challenges facing gold miners and the importance of the gold rush era in shaping Australia's population. From National Museum of Australia

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">[|Gold Rush 1823-1896] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">- timeline of events

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">[|Riot or Revolution] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">- 3 video clips starting in the 1850's with the unpopular gold tax to the Eureka Stockade. From National Film and Sound Archive

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">[|Sovereign Hill] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">- research notes for students -- interactive map of Sovereign Hill -- Ballarat goldfields diary with audio || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">[|Anti-Chinese Racism] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">- anti-Chinese laws. From The original Goldrush Colony

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">[|Changing face of early Australia] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">- section on Chinese immigration. From Australian Government

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">[|Immigration and population] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">- contents: The immigration rush, Multicultural gold fields, The new goldmountain, Fear of the Chinese, Stereotyping the Chinese, Anti-Chinese riots, Restrictive immigration Acts, The walk from Robe, Mining Aboriginal lands, Opportunities for Aborigines, The Native Police Corp. From SBS ||