Term 1 Homework Research

This is a research contract about Gold in Australia. The aim is to research

information so that you can answer the question assigned for each week.
You need to complete the questions in the back of your homework book. Please
write the questions and answer.
This part of your homework is to be completed by Friday of each week.
Each week you will have the opportunity of scoring 10 points if you strike it rich
and find the correct answers.

Week
2
3
4
5
6
7
8

Questions

Score

What is gold and what is the largest nugget of

gold ever found in Australia? How much did it
weigh?
Which country had a gold rush before Australia?
In what year?
Who was Edward Hargraves?
Where and when was he born?
Where was the first gold nugget found in
Australia? In what year? How much did it weigh?
Draw a picture of the nugget.
Draw a map of Australia, label the major
goldfields.
Draw and label pictures of what people took to
the goldfields.
Describe the living conditions on the goldfields.
TOTAL

GOOD LUCK
I hope you strike it rich!