Books:
*(Easy)
Coerr, Eleanor; Chang's Paper Pony
Garthwaite, Marian; Coarsegold Gulch
oop
Garthwaite, Marian; Holdup on Bootjack Hill
oop
Garthwaite, Marian; Shaken Days oop
Levinson, Nancy; Snowshoe Thompson
Levitan, Sonia; Nine for California
Levitan, Sonia; Boom Town
Stewart, George; The Pioneers Go West
Wright, Courtni; Wagon Train
*(Average)
Bauer, Helen; California Gold Days
Blumberg, Rhoda; The Great American Gold Rush
Brady, Jerry; You Bet Gold Fever
Bulla, Clyde Robert; The Secret Valley
H/F
Chambers, Catherine; California Gold Rush:
Search for Treasure
Comstock, Esther; Vallejo and the Four Flags
(Bear Flag Revolt)
Fleischman, Sid; Bandit's Moon H/F Joaquin
Murrieta
Flory, Jane; The Golden Venture
Gintzler, A.S.; Rough and Ready Cowboys
Gintzler, A.S.; Rough and Ready Homesteaders
Gintzler, A.S.; Rough and Ready Prospectors
Harvey, Brett; Cassie's Journey: Going West
in the 1860s
Henry, Sonja, and Taitz, Emily; Everyone Wears
His Name: A Biography of Levi Strauss
Hoobler, Dorothy and Thomas; Treasure in the
Stream
Laurgaard, Rachel; Patty Reed's Doll: The
Story of the Donner Party
Lavendar, David; Snowbound: The Tragic Story
of the Donner Party
Levine, Ellen; If You Traveled West in a Covered
Wagon
McCunn, Ruthanne; An Illustrated History of
the Chinese in America
McMorrow, Catherine; Gold Fever
McNeer, May; The California Gold Rush
Morrison, Dorothy; Under a Strong Wind: The
Adventures of Jessie Benton Fremont
Rawls, James and Holder, John; Dame Shirley
and the Gold Rush
Reinstedt, Randall; One Eyed Charley: The
California Whip
Reinstedt, Randall; Tales and Treasures of
the California Gold Rush
Uchida, Yoshiko; Samurai of Gold Hill
Van Steenwyck, Elizabeth; The California Gold
Rush: West with the Forty-Niners
Yep, Laurence; The Journal of Wong Ming-Chung:
A Chinese Miner, 1852
*(Challenging)
Blake, Arthur, and Dailey, Pamela; The Gold
Rush of 1849
Cox, Clinton; Mark Twain: America's Humorist,
Dreamer, Prophet
Cushman, Karen; The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
H/F
Ketchum, Liza; The Gold Rush
Munoz Ryan, Pam; Riding Freedom
Shuter, Jane; Sarah Royce and the American
West
Trafzer, Clifford; California Indians and
the Gold Rush
*(Read-Alouds)
Benet, Rosemary; "Western Wagons" in A Book
of Americans
Cohn, Amy; From Sea to Shining Sea: A Treasury
of American Folklore and Folk Songs
Fleischman, Sid; By the Great Horned Spoon
H/F EMC#820391 book set
Fleischman, Sid; Mr. Mysterious and Company
H/F
*(Resource)
Beasley, Delilah; Negro Trailblazers of California
dated title, but useful
Bloch, Louis; Overland to California in 1859:
A Guide for Wagon Train Travellers primary srce.
Freedman, Russell; Children of the Wild West
Hands-On History- Teachers Guide for Randall
Reinstedt's Tales and Treasures (see above)
Hart, Eugene; The California Gold Rush
Hill, William; The California Trail Yesterday
and Today
Holliday, J.S.; The World Rushed In
Jackson, Joseph Henry; Anybody's Gold: The
Story of California's Mining Towns
Katz, Wm.; Black People Who Made the Old West
Monroy, Douglas; Thrown Among Strangers, The
Making of Mexican Culture in Frontier California
Myth and Reality: The California Gold Rush
and the Legacy (Grade 5) EMC#550047
Myth and Reality: The California Gold Rush
and the Legacy (Grade 4) EMC#550044 / 45
Original Constitution of the State of California,
1849
Rohrbough, Malcolm; Days of Gold: The California
Gold Rush and the American Nation
Stanley, Jerry; Digger: The Tragic Fate of
the California Indians
Video:
As the Wind Rocks the Wagon EMC#883193
Bodie - Ghost Town Frozen in Time EMC#885565
60 mins
Boom or Bust EMC#885438 20 mins
California Gold Rush EMC#883272
18 mins dated
California Gold: Stories of Two Women
EMC#880941 20 mins
California's Gold: #212 Lost Sierra
EMC#884352 29 mins
California's Gold: #310 Bodie EMC#884493
30 mins
California's Gold: #607 Scotty's Castle
EMC#885710
Children of the Wagon Train EMC#881150
18 mins
Clipper Ship EMC#886053 50 mins
Darlin' Clementine EMC#883959
50 mins
Discover the Californias EMC#880911
55 mins
Emigrant Trail EMC#883434 60 mins
Ghost Town Hunters EMC#883192
50 mins
Gold Dredge EMC#881240 17 mins
dated
Gold Rush and the 49ers EMC#883449
20 mins
Gold Rush and the Settlement of California
EMC#883559 16 mins
The Gold Rush EMC#885301
24 mins dated
The Gold Rush EMC#885795
60 mins
Gold Rush EMC#886212 60
mins
Golden City EMC#880167 30 mins
Goldrush Country EMC#884067 18
mins dated
Gone West: The Growth of a Nation EMC#886246
28 mins
Hard-Rock Gold Mining EMC#881241
20 mins dated
Hydraulic Gold Mining EMC#881242
17 mins dated
John Muir: The Man, The Poet, The Legacy
EMC#882447 50 mins
Life in a Gold-Mining Camp Eighteen Fifty:
Had You Lived Then EMC#881717 18 mins dated
Mountain Men and Gold Seekers EMC#886244
27 mins
Moving West EMC#881813 15 mins
On the Trail of Tragedy: The Donner Party
Site EMC#885079 21 mins
Placer Gold EMC#885276 12 mins
Placer Gold EMC#881143 10 mins
dated
Portraits in Gold EMC#883338 20
mins
San Francisco EMC#884247 45 mins
Searching for Paradise EMC#884282
60 mins
Spoil the Child EMC#882620 23
mins
Sutter's Fort EMC#880050 16 mins
dated
Sutter's Fort: If These Walls Could Speak
EMC#883190 30 mins
Tears from the Sun EMC#882111
20 mins
Touring America's Ghost Towns EMC#884307
60 mins
Visit with the Gold Miners EMC#882944
14 mins
Walk Through Time: California Gold Country
Past and Present EMC#882916 90 mins
Westward Expansion I EMC#880325 31 mins
dated
Westward Expansion II EMC#880326
24 mins
Westward Movement: The Gold Rush EMC#881608
21 mins
Windows on the Delta EMC#885566
26 mins
Software:
Oregon Trail The Learning Company
Internet:
Gold Rush sites:
http://www.pbs.org/goldrush
http://www.pbs.org/
wgbh/amex/kids/goldrush/
http://www.calgoldrush.com
http://pwa.acusd.edu/
~jross/goldrush.html
http://www.discovery.com/
stories/wayback/980323/
wayback.html
http://www.ncgold.com/
goldrushtown/
http://sfmuseum.org
/hist2/gold.html
http://www.museumca.org/
goldrush.html
http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/
activity/suttersfort/
*Sutter's Fort tour
http://www.windjammer.net/
users/isg/coloma/
*Coloma St Park- Marshall gold discovery
http://www.sierra.parks.state.
ca.us/cshp.htm
*Columbia State Park-
Gold Rush town
http://www.ibiscom.com/stage.htm
*Mark Twain's account of overland journey
Oregon Trail sites:
http://www.isu.edu/
trinmich/Oregontrail.html
http://www.ukans.edu/
kansas/seneca/oregon/
Other:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/
pages/amex/donner
*Donner Party
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/
wired/donner/index.html
*Donner Party
http://sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/
*John Muir biography
Previously Published
Data
Gold Rush.
Interactive Software.
The Great Horn Spoon.
Fleischman, Sid.
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The following sites
provide an abundance of lesson plans:
http://www.ofcn.org/
cyber.serv/academy/ace/
soc/elem.html
gopher://bvsd.k12.co.us:
70/11/Educational_Resources/
Lesson_Plans/Big%20Sky/
social_studies
http://www.col-ed.org/cur/
http://www.mcrel.org/
connect/plus
http://www.trinity.edu/
departments/education/
core/newplans.htm
http://ericir.syr.edu/
Virtual/Lessons/crossroads
http://talk.startribune.com/
cgi-bin/WebX.cgi?homework-
14@@.ee6b2b9
homework help
http://www.mcrel.org/
connect/lesson.html#social
http://www.nwrel.org
/sky/Classroom/Social_
Studies/Social_Studies.html
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/
resources/ngo/education/ideas.html
http://www.rims.k12.ca.us/SCORE/
http://www.eduplace.com/ss/
*Houghton Mifflin supplemental
games, quizes maps
http://www.socialstudies.com/
index.html
http://www.mmhschool.com/
teach/socialstud/socstu1.html
Previously
Published Data
Simulation Situation:
1.) The year is 1875. A man fishing in the
Trout River of California has just discovered several large gold nuggets.
He has reported his finding and the officials are worried about another
Gold Rush like the one in 1849, which was uncontrolled and led to many
problems.
2.) Officials offer a generous amount of money
to the town that comes up with the best plan for managing the crowds. This
town will become the Boom Town of 1875. Each town is to consider housing,
transportation, food, keeping law and order and preservation of environment.
Make your decision and present your findings to a panel that will decide
where the Boom Town will be located.
3.) Questions:
How did miners get to the fields?
What kinds of equipment did they need?
What other goods did the need?
How did they get supplies they needed?
Did the mining cause damage?
What were the problems before laws?
What laws were needed? What were the housing
problems?
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Previously Published
Data
Simulation: The students will be assessed through
teacher observation on group performance and participation on organization
of tasks, examples of cooperation and participation, and areas of possible
improvement.
Sample Rubric:
4. Gathers relevant, accurate information.
Shows thorough understanding of content.
Exhibits outstanding insight/creativity.
Communicates ideas clearly and effectively.
3. Gathers sufficient, accurate information.
Shows adequate understanding of content.
Exhibits reasonable insight/creativity.
Communicates most ideas clearly/effectively.
2 . Gathers limited, accurate information.
Shows partial understanding of content.
Exhibits limited insight/creativity.
Communicates a few ideas clearly.
1. Fails to gather accurate information.
Shows little or no understanding of content.
Does not exhibit insight/creativity.
Has difficulty communicating ideas.
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