Step 1: Examine the photo
Picture above - About 1875
This picture is taken a few years after the tent life on the goldfields but it still shows how hard it must have been for the women who came to the Australian goldfields.
- Look closely at the above photograph. What is the cottage made of?
- How many people appear to be living in the cottage? What do you think it would be like for a family to live in a cottage like this?
Step 2: Quote from Emily Skinner (1854)
" Little do women who have come here in later years know of the hardship their predecessors had to encounter. Sometimes in lonely places where no other woman was in reach, perhaps sick and weak. I had to sit down beside the tub to do the necessary washing or attend to the children. At another time, finding myself on the floor with the poor child crying beside me, I was dimly conscious of having fainted away from weakness. How I longed for mothers and sisters at such times, and envied the poorest woman at home who in sickness generally have some relative near."
What does this quote tell you about the experiences of women on the goldfields?
What does this quote tell you about the experiences of women on the goldfields?
Step 3: Activity - Read all the instructions through before you start
- Open up a word document
- Use the information from above and the websites below to find out about life for women on the goldfields. Type a report about Life for Women on the Goldfields in the Word document. Make sure it is in your own words. Make sure you write about what the women did, how they felt living and working there and what characteristics they would have had to survive (Brave, strong, tolerant, hard working etc etc) Websites
- Kid Cyber
3. Check for spelling because you are going to Copy and Paste this into a wordle.
4. Now click on this link to create a Wordle
5. Select Create to start a new Wordle.
6. Copy and paste your report into the word section of the Wordle.
7. Click go so that it creates the Wordle. Now play around with the fonts, the shape of your Wordle and the colours until you are happy with it.
8. This is the tricky step! I want you to take a screen shot of your Wordle. To do this hold down the following 3 keys all at the same time on your keyboard - Command, Shift, 4 - and now wrap the select tool over the Wordle . Make sure you only have the image that is the Wordle part. Let go of the select tool when you are happy with what you have grabbed.
9. It will save the image to your desktop automatically.
10. Now you can insert the Wordle image that is on your desktop, into your next slide on your PowerPoint (See Mrs Brand's PowerPoint for an example of this).
10. Now you can insert the Wordle image that is on your desktop, into your next slide on your PowerPoint (See Mrs Brand's PowerPoint for an example of this).
Step 4: Optional Activity
If you have time, you can add another slide or two to your PowerPoint and add some further information about women on the goldfields. Choose from one of the following headings:
- Problems women faced
- The work women did
- How a woman's life changed
- A day in the life of a woman on the goldfields