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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWhat Would You Work Hard For?
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: History-Social Science, Geography, EconomicsThis lesson, from Xpeditions, has students go through a simulation to learn about value, abundance, and scarcity. They are asked...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWestern Expansion and Reform: A Forty-Niner Writes Home
Grades: 3 to 8Subjects: History-Social Science, United States History, EconomicsThis 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: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Mystery of the Amazing Farmers:
Grades: 3 to 8Subjects: History-Social Science, EconomicsThis reproducible chart, from an EconEdLink lesson, allows students to input information on human capital, real capital, and tec...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Days of Forty-Nine
Grades: 4 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, Literary Analysis, English-Language Arts, United States History, 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: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Chinese in California, 1850-1925
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: History-Social Science, Immigration and Migration, California, United States History, GeographyThe 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: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTeacher CyberGuide: "By the Great Horn Spoon"
Grades: 4Subjects: Visual Arts & Performing Arts, History-Social Science, Literary Analysis, English-Language 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: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTeacher CyberGuide: Blue Willow
Grades: 4 to 5Subjects: Science, Literary Analysis, Life Sciences, English-Language Arts 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: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSan Francisco - Gold Rush
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, English-Language Arts, United States History, 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: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkRails to the Pacific: A Brief History of the Transcontinental Railroad
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, United States HistoryThis Web page, from the California State Railroad Museum Foundation, provides information about how the development of a railroa...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPBS: Surviving the Dust Bowl
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Agriculture & Natural Resources, Career & Technical Ed, History-Social Science, United States History, EconomicsThis resource, part of the PBS Web site, provides links to resources that accompany the PBS film Surviving the Dustbowl. This...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLeland Stanford 1824-1893
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, American Democracy, 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: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkImmigrant Contributions to America
Grades: TK/K to 4Subjects: Theatre, History-Social Science, Humanities, Visual Arts, United States HistoryIn this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from ARTSEDGE, students study the contributions of immigrants to the United States by e...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkI Hear the Locomotives: The Impact of the Transcontinental Railroad
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: History-Social Science, English-Language Arts, Economics, Literature 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: 0
Resource Type: DocumentHuman Migration Guide (3-5)
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: History-Social Science, GeographyThis student reproducible, from Xpeditions, features information about migration, including types of migration, people who migra...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkGold Rush Sesquicentennial
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, English-Language Arts, United States History, Reading ComprehensionThis resource, from the Sacramento Bee, features information on the California Gold Rush of 1848. Research the people, the land,...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkGold Rush Letters
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, English-Language Arts, 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: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkGold Rush Images
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: Visual Arts & Performing Arts, Types of Media, History-Social Science, Visual Arts, United States HistoryThis Web page from the California Gold Country contains illustrations of California Gold Rush scenes created during the early ye...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkGold Rush Fun Facts
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, United States HistoryThis 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: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkGold Discovered in California
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, English-Language Arts, United States History, Reading ComprehensionThis ReadWriteThink resource focuses on the California gold rush of the mid-nineteenth century. A classroom activity is featured...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkGlobal Breakfast
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Science, Agriculture & Natural Resources, History-Social Science, Life Sciences, 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: 0