Gallery 4 - Teacher's Corner

The Cariboo Gold Rush

This gallery provides photographs, maps and text highlighting the profound social changes brought to British Columbia by the gold rush.

Classroom Activities

• Create a "Gold Rush" role drama*, focusing on:

  a)  The Journey
  b)  The Conditions
  c)  The Towns
  d)  Striking it Rich

  * See Offstage: Elementary Education Through Drama, Carole Tarlington, Patrick Verriour, Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1983.

Focus on Skills:

- Problem Solving
- Decision Making
- Acquiring Information Through Listening
- Communicating Orally and in Writing


• Choose one of the people in the Cariboo Gold Rush, write their biography.

Focus on Skills:

- Decision Making
- Acquiring Information Through Reading
- Organizing Information
- Communicating Orally and in Writing


• With a partner, build a working model of one of the mining machines:

  a))  Cradle or Rocker
  b))  Flume
  c))  Sluice Box
  d))  Cornish Wheel.

Focus on Skills:

- Decision Making
- Problem Solving
- Locating Information
- Evaluating Information
- Citizenship Skills

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Applicability to the Educational Curriculum

Relevant Learning Outcomes - Society and Culture

• To have students recognize how people's use of resources has contributed to the development of Canada.

• Describe the historical development of various B.C. communities

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