Colonial Australian tour of The Rocks

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Colonial Australian tour of The Rocks

29/7/2015

25 Comments

After a whole day collecting clues to the mystery of The Rocks, this is what we learnt.

Thank you to the lovely teachers at the Environmental Education Centre, Observatory Hill, who provided the educational experience free of charge. The full program of our day could be found here: http://observatoryhilleec.nsw.edu.au/primary-programs/the-rocks-stage-3/

25 Comments

NIKKI

28/7/2015 07:56:42 am

1. The Rocks push

2. That in the olden times the kitchen would be outside , kinda

3. The gold rush

Maria

28/7/2015 08:00:25 am

1.
The tanks stream
2.
they filled in the bay
3.
The clyde bank
4. Eber bunker

Ben who is staring at you from the rocks :)

28/7/2015 07:56:58 am

First

Maria

28/7/2015 08:00:59 am

I was totes second

Ross

28/7/2015 07:57:28 am

1 Francis Greenway
2 Bunkers Hill
3 Timeline like the after 1788 and the bubonic plague

Gabstar

28/7/2015 07:57:32 am

1. There is a stream that goes under Pitt st called tank stream

2. The girls in the gangs were called donahs

3. Jack Mundey saved the rocks from being changed to sky scrapers

whatever you want to call me (matthew)

28/7/2015 07:57:40 am

1. The rundown buildings are good for playing parkourse
2. millers point was effected by the plague
3. I'm bad at parkourse

NIKKI

28/7/2015 07:57:43 am

# fist

Nikki

28/7/2015 07:58:35 am

I mean first

Cherry

28/7/2015 07:58:49 am

I learnt that there was a stream underneath the railway tracks in Circular Quay. I also learned that there was a gang called The Rocks Push and that a man called Francis Greenway when from convict to famous.

Nadialikeswatermelon

28/7/2015 08:01:10 am

1. The girl gangs were called donahs

2. Jack Mundey saved the old buildings in the rocks from being knocked down

3. Argyle Terris had houses next to a wool warehouse

Liam Neeson

28/7/2015 08:01:31 am

1. I didn't know that a convict designed some buildings (like the prison he would stay in...)
2. That there was a river under circular quay
3. GR stands for King Goerge

Ben who is staring at you from the rocks :)

28/7/2015 08:01:41 am

1. The Chinese came to Australia in 1891

2. There is a river under Sydney 0_0

3. There was a gold rush in Sydney -.-

Avia Trotter (Karla)

28/7/2015 08:02:00 am

Three things I learnt about the rocks:
1. Many Chinese people migrated to the middle of NSW to find gold.
2.The first person to die of the bubonic plague was Arthur Pane.
3.Big ware houses where full of stored wool.

Bronagh

28/7/2015 08:02:05 am

1: the tank stream
2: Francis greenway was a convict then turned into a architect
3: the rocks push

god son c.o.c. (ganes)

28/7/2015 08:02:33 am

1.the quest
2.the treasure
3.LOLLIES!!!!!!!!!

ME AVA

28/7/2015 08:02:35 am

I learned about 1. jack Mundy and how he saved the rocks from being destroyed 2. How the buildings were made and 3. About The Rocks Push.

Howie the war lock

28/7/2015 08:02:54 am

1 I learned the plague
Of the rats that spread the virus
2.i learned jack Mundy
He stop the bull dozing the old building
3 I learned the gold rush that found

Omar the #TITAN

28/7/2015 08:02:58 am

I have leanred that Jack Mundey was the head of the union BLF,Ihave also learned that the Harbour bridge nikname is coat hanger.Also that the gold rush is when they go to the centre of NSW to get gold for buying stuff.

jeng(thanasin)

28/7/2015 08:04:19 am

1run down bliuding.
2treasure hunt
3know the people how live it that time
play a game.

CHRISTIAN

28/7/2015 08:04:58 am

1.I found out that the coat hanger remindes you of the harbour bridge.
2.`Captain Author Phillip placed the flag on the 26 of january.
3.treasure is in a cave.

Ellie ....;.......

28/7/2015 08:05:01 am

I learned about the rocks push, Yeesang loong and windmill st ha ha

Summoner H

28/7/2015 08:06:07 am

we learned about the Union Jack and how Arthur Phillip claimed Australia

28/7/2015 08:06:22 am

Today I learnt that I shouldn't put poop on my hand and that we still have a few pieces of houses around the rocks and that the plague spreads pretty quickly.

avia Trotter (Karla)

29/7/2015 02:20:21 am

It is Sarina isn't it.

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