Oakland Museum of California Statewide Gold Rush Curriculum Welcome to the Gold Rush! online curriculum, Myth & Reality: The California Gold Rush and Its Legacy. These materials for grades 4,5,8 and 11 were developed to provide students and teachers an opportunity for historical inquiry through primary source visuals and documents. Excerpts and an order form are provided. Here you will find: Overview Curriculum Units Lesson Plans Workshops Curriculum Links History-Social Science Content Standards for California Public Schools Connections: 4th grade Volume 1 Part I "A Ripping Trip" 4th grade Volume 1 Part II "City Life During the Gold Rush" 4th Grade Volume 2, Part I, "The Diggin's"- Daily Life in the Mines 4th Grade Volume 2, Part II, "Mining the Environment" 5th Grade, The Big Rock Candy Mountain 8th Grade Part I, Manifest Destiny and California 8th Grade Part II 8th Grade Part III, Gold Rush Technology and the Environment 11th Grade, Cultural Diversity: California’s Issue in the 1850’s, the Nation’s Issue in the 1990’s

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