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The title of this lesson is “Gold rush - What was life like for a ‘49er?”

The lesson begins with a Starter Activity in which students are invited to guess which of a series of statements about the Gold Rush is false. This then leads into the Key Question and aims and objectives (which are graduated by all will, most will, and some will). There are then 7 slides of background information to enable teacher exposition before students begin the main task of placing up to 24 cards chronologically to tell a narrative of a day in the life of a miner in this period. They then place these onto a rollercoaster chart to explain highs and lows. Aims and objectives are revisited, and the lesson concludes with a voting plenary as well as an exit task (they are given some aluminium foil as they exist – 10% will have gold candy in and the rest leave empty-handed). This lesson was written for high achieving high school students, and I hope yours learn as much from it as much as mine.

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