Connections Between History-Social Science Content Standards for California Public Schools

and

Myth & Reality: The California Gold Rush and Its Legacy

4th Grade Volume 2, Part II, Mining the Environment.

B. Beginning the topic

Lesson Title

History-Social Science Content Standards for California Public Schools

Historical and Social Sciences Analysis Skills Grades K-5

1. Investigation Casebook

4.3.3 Students explain the economic, social, and political life in California from the establishment of the Bear Flag Republic through Mexican-American War, the Gold Rush, and the granting of Statehood. Analyze the effects of the Gold Rush on settlements, daily life, politics, and the physical environment (e.g., using biographies of John Sutter, Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, Louise Clapp).

Chronological and Spatial Thinking #1. Students place key events and people of the historical era they are studying in a chronological sequence and within a spatial context; they interpret time lines.

2. What's the Catch?

4.3.3

Historical Interpretation #4. Students conduct cost-benefit analyses of historical and current events.

3. Now You See It...

4.3.3

Chronological and Spatial Thinking #3. Students explain how the present is connected to the past, identifying both similarities and differences between the two, and how some things change over time and some things stay the same.

4. Legacy of Mining?

4.3.3

Chronological and Spatial Thinking #3. Students explain how the present is connected to the past, identifying both similarities and differences between the two, and how some things change over time and some things stay the same.

Connections Between History-Social Science Content Standards for California Public Schools

and

Myth & Reality: The California Gold Rush and Its Legacy

4th Grade Volume 2, Part II, Mining the Environment.

C. Developing the Topic

Lesson Title

History-Social Science Content Standards for California Public Schools

Historical and Social Sciences Analysis Skills Grades K-5

5. What is Technology?

4.3.3 Students explain the economic, social, and political life in California from the establishment of the Bear Flag Republic through Mexican-American War, the Gold Rush, and the granting of Statehood. Analyze the effects of the Gold Rush on settlements, daily life, politics, and the physical environment (e.g., using biographies of John Sutter, Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, Louise Clapp).

Historical Interpretation #1. Students summarize the key events of the era they are studying and explain the historical contexts of those events.

6. Technology of the Times

4.3.3

Chronological and Spatial Thinking #3. Students explain how the present is connected to the past, identifying both similarities and differences between the two, and how some things change over time and some things stay the same.

7. Tools of the Trade

4.3.3

Research, Evidence, and Point of View #2. Students pose relevant questions about events they encounter in historical documents, eyewitness accounts, oral histories, letters, diaries, artifacts, photographs, maps, artworks, and architecture.

8. What Does It Cost? Take A Closer Look

4.3.3

Historical Interpretation #4. Students conduct cost-benefit analyses of historical and current events.

9. Gold Production

4.3.3

Chronological and Spatial Thinking #3. Students explain how the present is connected to the past, identifying both similarities and differences between the two, and how some things change over time and some things stay the same.

10. Mine Your Own Business

4.3.3

Historical Interpretation #1. Students summarize the key events of the era they are studying and explain the historical contexts of those events.

Connections Between History-Social Science Content Standards for California Public Schools

and

Myth & Reality: The California Gold Rush and Its Legacy

4th Grade Volume 2, Part II, Mining the Environment.

D. Culminating the Topic

Lesson Title

History-Social Science Content Standards for California Public Schools

Historical and Social Sciences Analysis Skills Grades K-5

11. Extra! Extra! Write All About It!

4.3.3 Students explain the economic, social, and political life in California from the establishment of the Bear Flag Republic through Mexican-American War, the Gold Rush, and the granting of Statehood. Analyze the effects of the Gold Rush on settlements, daily life, politics, and the physical environment (e.g., using biographies of John Sutter, Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, Louise Clapp).

Historical Interpretation #1. Students summarize the key events of the era they are studying and explain the historical contexts of those events.

12. Doing Your Part for the Environment

4.3.3

Historical Interpretation #1 and #4. Students summarize the key events of the era they are studying and explain the historical contexts of those events. Students conduct cost-benefit analyses of historical and current events.

13. The Real Cost of the Gold Rush (Assessment)

4.3.3

Historical Interpretation #4. Students conduct cost-benefit analyses of historical and current events.