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The Days of Forty-Nine
Grades: 4 to 12Subjects: Literary Analysis, English-Language Arts, Geography, History-Social Science, United States HistoryThis resource includes excerpts from letters written by William Swain, his wife and his brother, as Swain took his chances in th...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0PBS: Surviving the Dust Bowl
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Agriculture & Natural Resources, Economics, United States History, History-Social Science, Career & Technical EdThis resource, part of the PBS Web site, provides links to resources that accompany the PBS film Surviving the Dustbowl. This...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Leland Stanford 1824-1893
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: American Democracy, History-Social Science, United States HistoryThe life and work of Leland Stanford is examined in this biography from PBS Online s New Perspectives on The West. An attorney...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum Index Page
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, United States HistoryThis index page of the Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum provides extensive links to resources with informati...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, United States HistoryThe Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum s home page provides extensive links to information pages on the railro...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Gold Rush Images
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: Visual Arts & Performing Arts, History-Social Science, United States History, Visual Arts, Types of MediaThis Web page from the California Gold Country contains illustrations of California Gold Rush scenes created during the early ye...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: 0Teacher CyberGuide: Blue Willow
Grades: 4 to 5Subjects: English-Language Arts, Agriculture & Natural Resources, Career & Technical Ed, 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: 0Teacher CyberGuide: "By the Great Horn Spoon"
Grades: 4Subjects: English-Language Arts, Literary Analysis, United States History, History-Social Science 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: 0Rails to the Pacific: A Brief History of the Transcontinental Railroad
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, History-Social Science, United States HistoryThis Web page, from the California State Railroad Museum Foundation, provides information about how the development of a railroa...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Gold Rush Letters
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, History-Social Science, Reading Comprehension, United States HistoryThis resource, from Marion County, Missouri, features a collection of letters written during the California Gold Rush of 1848. W...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Gold Rush Sesquicentennial
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, United States History, History-Social Science, Reading ComprehensionThis resource, from the Sacramento Bee, features information on the California Gold Rush of 1848. Research the people, the land,...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0San Francisco - Gold Rush
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, United States History, History-Social Science, Reading ComprehensionThis resource, from the Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco, features links to information on the California Gold Rush o...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Affidavit and Flyers from the Chinese Boycott Case
Grades: 5 to 12Subjects: Mathematics, United States History, American Democracy, History-Social Science, Data Analysis, Statistics, and ProbabilityUnder 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: 0Western Expansion and Reform: A Forty-Niner Writes Home
Grades: 3 to 8Subjects: Economics, History-Social Science, United States HistoryThis 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: 0California As I Saw It: First-Person Narratives of California's Early Years, 1849-1900
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Geography, California, United States, United States History, History-Social ScienceCalifornia 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: 0Affidavit and Flyers from the Chinese Boycott Case
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: The Civil War & Reconstruction, Geography, California, United States History, History-Social ScienceAffidavit 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 Chinese in California, 1850-1925
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Geography, Immigration and Migration, California, United States History, History-Social ScienceThe 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: 0America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Visual Arts & Performing Arts, World War II, World History, United States History, History-Social ScienceAmerica 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: 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: 0