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Gold!

Text

• An Artist of the Goldfields: The Diary of Eugene von Guerard - annotated by Marjorie Tipping, Melbourne University Press, 1992
• In the Past (set) - Rigby English Upper Primary B, Rigby Heinemann, 1999
• Macmillan Highlights series: Australia from the Beginning; Australian Cities and Towns; Australian Houses and Buildings; Gold in Australia - Macmillan, 1999
• Jeremy Jeremiah - Baron, A., Allen and Unwin, 1995
• Shaping Australia series: Expansion and Exploration, The Gold Rush - Barwick J. and J, Heinemann Library, 1999
• Eureka Stockade - Boardman, A. and Harvey, R., Scholastic, 1981 (reprinted 1997)
• Fragile Paradise: the real story of Fletcher Christian, Bounty Mutineer - Christian, G., Doubleday, 1999
• Through Children's Eyes: The Gold Fields - Ciddor, A., Macmillan, 1995
• Windradyne: A Wiradjurie Koorie - Coe, M., Aboriginal Studies Press,1989
• The Women of Oz: The Changing Role of Women in Australia, - Damousi, J., Australia Post, 1994
• Australian Children's series: The Golden Years 1850-1890, The Spread of Settlement; A Century Turns 1890 - 1914; Children in Wartime; Boom and Bust 1919 - 1939; The Population Boom; The Recent Past 1970 - Dugan, M., Macmillan,1997
• The Lost Children: 13 Australians taken from their Aboriginal families tell of the struggle to find their natural parents - Edwards, C.and Read, P., (ed), Doubleday, 1989
• Australian Library series: Bushrangers - Gard, S., Heinemann Library, 1999
• Settling Australia series: The Gold Seekers - Gard, S., Macmillan, 1998
• Settling Australia series: The Settlers - Gard, S., Macmillan, 1998
• Australia's Bushrangers series: The Bolters; Bail Up!; Hanged or Shot; The Lure of Gold; Felons on the Run; End of an Era - Graham, P., Macmillan, 1999
• The Rusty Kee Adventures - Hurle, G., Omnibus, 1994
• A Golden Life: Letters from the Gold Fields - Krok, L., Upper Primary B, Rigby Heinemann, 1994 (In the Past unit)
• The Story of Gold (series) - McClish, B., Macmillan, 1996
• Australian History audio tapes - Manning Clarke
• The Fascinating Story of Gold in Australia - Nicholson, J., Allen and Unwin, 1995
• Amazing Facts about Australia's Heritage - Parish S., Steve Parish Publishing, 1997
• A Woman on the Goldfields: Recollections of Emily Shinnen 1854-1878 - Shinnen, E., Melbourne University Press, 1995
• Valley of Heavenly Gold - Sutton, E., Bookshelf, 1995
• To the Goldfield! - Tonkin, R., Allen and Unwin, 1999

Video, CD-ROM and Web

• Peaches Gold - Maxwells's Multimedia Collection (4 videos)
• Australian Goldrushes - Classroom Video, 1986 (21 min, Years 4-7)
• Rewind: Environment - Great Prospects - Film Australia National Interest Program, Film Australia, 1997 (5 minute video)
• Sovereign Hill: A Story of Gold - Video Education Australia, 1990
• Goldfields - Edsoft, Jacaranda, Australia (computer package)
• The Story of Australia Part 3 and 4 - New Horizons (CD-ROM)
• Understanding Australia: Land and Its People - Curriculum Corporation (CD-ROM)
• National Library of Australia - Information about the National Library; Electronic Australiana (Guides to Australian Information on www); Events and Exhibitions; Collections and Services; Resources and Databases.
• History Hill at Hill End, NSW - Includes the Hope Mine a museum where students are shown a video, a blacksmith/tinsmith shop and other authentic buildings.
• The Blacktown and District Historical Society - For students to explore Riverstone near Windsor around the time of Federation. The website has photos based around a local identity, Joseph Henry Cragg and provides an example of the way history can be investigated through primary sources and it also provides a source for investigation by students. The highlight of the site is an aerial drawing of the town, Riverstone, in 1880.