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Gold Discovered in California
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social Science, English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionThis ReadWriteThink resource focuses on the California gold rush of the mid-nineteenth century. A classroom activity is featured...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Teacher CyberGuide: "By the Great Horn Spoon"
Grades: 4Subjects: Visual Arts, Reading Comprehension, Technology, Visual Arts & Performing Arts and 5 additional..This unit of instruction, found on the SCORE CyberGuide Web site, is a supplementary, standards-based, Web-delivered resource ce...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0I Hear the Locomotives: The Impact of the Transcontinental Railroad
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Visual Arts, Literature, Geography, Economics and 4 additional..In this four lesson unit, from EDSITEment, students analyze archival material in order to make connections between the arrival o...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0California As I Saw It: First-Person Narratives of California's Early Years, 1849-1900
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: California, United States, United States History, History-Social Science, GeographyCalifornia As I Saw It: First-Person Narratives of California's Early Years, 1849-1900 consists of texts and illustrations of 19...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: World War II, United States History, World History, History-Social Science, Visual Arts & Performing ArtsAmerica from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945 contains links to thousands of the mo...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0Central Pacific Railroad - Photographic History Museum
Grades: 4 to 7Subjects: History-Social ScienceA gigantic online "virtual museum" which includes thousands of digitally restored period stereoviews and photographs, engravings...Contributor: David CraigViews: 0Favorites: 0Western Expansion and Reform: A Forty-Niner Writes Home
Grades: 3 to 8Subjects: Economics, United States History, History-Social ScienceThis Web page, part of the Jump Back in Time section of the America s Story Web site, describes pioneer life during the Cali...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Gold Rush Fun Facts
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social ScienceThis resource, from Idaho State University, is part of a larger site about the California Gold Rush. This web page focuses on fu...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Can We Keep the Lake Clean?
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: Ecology & Ecosystems, Visual Arts, Science, Geography and 2 additional..This Xpeditions lesson introduces students to the water cycle by having them help draw a picture of a lake ecosystem, adding hum...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Affidavit and Flyers from the Chinese Boycott Case
Grades: 5 to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social Science, Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability, Mathematics, American DemocracyUnder Article I, Section 8, Clause 4, of the U.S. Constitution, the Congress is granted the power to establish an uniform Rule ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Affidavit and Flyers from the Chinese Boycott Case
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: California, United States History, The Civil War & Reconstruction, History-Social Science, GeographyAffidavit and Flyers from the Chinese Boycott Case introduces students to one instance in which immigrants overcame the ramifica...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0The Mystery of the Amazing Farmers:
Grades: 3 to 8Subjects: Economics, History-Social ScienceThis reproducible chart, from an EconEdLink lesson, allows students to input information on human capital, real capital, and tec...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0California H/SS Course Model-California Becomes an Agricultural and Industrial Power
Grades: 4Subjects: History-Social ScienceThis California H/SS Course Model helps Students explain how California became an agricultural and industrial power by tracing t...Views: 0Favorites: 0The Days of Forty-Nine
Grades: 4 to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social Science, English-Language Arts, Literary Analysis, GeographyThis resource includes excerpts from letters written by William Swain, his wife and his brother, as Swain took his chances in th...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Teacher CyberGuide: Blue Willow
Grades: 4 to 5Subjects: Agriculture & Natural Resources, Visual Arts, Geography, History-Social Science and 8 additional..This unit of instruction, found on the SCORE CyberGuide Web site, is a supplementary, standards-based, Web-delivered resource ce...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Global Breakfast
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Life Sciences, Agriculture & Natural Resources, History-Social Science, Science, HumanitiesThe purpose of this Science NetLinks lesson is to look for evidence of global interdependence in the foods that we eat. Students...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0The Chinese in California, 1850-1925
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: California, United States History, History-Social Science, Geography, Immigration and MigrationThe Chinese in California, 1850-1925 presents 8,000 photos, paintings, letters, diary excerpts, pamphlets, and speeches that por...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0California Gold Rush Web Resources
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: United States History, History-Social Science, English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionThis student reproducible, from a ReadWriteThink lesson, provides students with an annotated list of Web resources related to th...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Gold Rush Sesquicentennial
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social Science, English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionThis resource, from the Sacramento Bee, features information on the California Gold Rush of 1848. Research the people, the land,...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0What Would You Work Hard For?
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: Economics, History-Social Science, GeographyThis lesson, from Xpeditions, has students go through a simulation to learn about value, abundance, and scarcity. They are asked...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
