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This activity pack is a great 28-page tool for students to learn about the Gold Rush era in Australia. This activity pack aligns with the NSW HSIE/History curriculum and includes different learning activities to encourage different styles of learners to participate and learn.
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California Gold Rush.... Poster Activity bling, bling :-)
Let your students show what they've learned about their studies of The California Gold Rush by using this 8.5 x 11 poster. This poster will look great hanging outside your classroom, and parents will enjoy reading them when they are sent ho
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The California Gold Rush! Kids are fascinated by the many who endured many hardships to seek their fortune. This internet scavenger hunt activity is a great way to keep your students engaged while learning about the gold rush, the prospectors, and the forty-niners. While completing this WebQuest,
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These Bloom's activities have been specifically created to enhance learning about the Australian Gold Rush in the classroom. Using this framework in your classroom will help to encourage students to use higher order thinking skills. It will enable them to use their knowledge about the gold rush in f
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The California Gold Rush Activity Pack
What do you know about the Gold Rush of 1849 PP Activity
The California Gold Rush Handout
The California Gold Rush Comic Strip and Storyboard
Gold in California Word Search
James Marshall Word Search
The Gold Rush of 1849 Word Search
Help James W. Marshall fi
This Gold Rush pack has several activities you can use when introducing your kids to the great California Gold Rush!
I've included the following:
- Gold Rush reading passage
- Organizers that go with the reading passage
-Miner invention page
- Gold Mine Multiplication Mania ** A HUGE favorite!
California Gold Rush Activity | Westward Expansion Unit | Gold Rush Craft
Your students will enjoy making this interactive wheel about the California Gold Rush!. A fun hands on activity to go with your unit studies on Westward Expansion and the California Gold Rush!
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Students will love this unit on the Westward Expansion! This unit includes 12 reading passages, organizers, character studies on Lewis and Clark, Sacagawea, and Thomas Jefferson, vocabulary posters, timeline, map activities, a unit test, and so much more!
Your students will love learning about the
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TEN Westward Expansion/Manifest Destiny Lessons of Nonfiction Informational Text with a balanced mix of engaging hands-on activities + TWENTY INTERACTIVE NOTEBOOK ASSIGNMENTS to explore the Louisiana Purchase, the Lewis and Clark Expedition, the Gold Rush, famous trails West, as well as conflicts in
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Your students will enjoy learning about the California Gold Rush with this interactive packet. The fun, hands-on activities in this resource will surely help your students learn and understand the history of the Gold Rush!
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The 1849 California Gold Rush: A Student Exploration on the Gold Rush!
This Gold Rush lesson is included as part of the Westward Expansion and Manifest Destiny Unit, located here:
Westward Expansion and Manifest Destiny Unit!
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This Escape Room BUNDLE includes:
1) Lewis and Clark Escape Room
2) Oregon Trail Escape Room
3) California Gold Rush Escape Room
The Westward Expansion Escape Rooms BUNDLE will take students on three separate secret missions around the classroom! This escape room has students decode interesting f
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Google classroom text files for students just added!
Problem: LeAnn and I (the teachers behind Thank A Teacher) love the California Gold Rush. That shouldn't be a problem except we have way too much information! Sometimes too much of a good thing leaves us feeling a little overwhelmed. LeAnn does he
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This packet will give you and your students everything they need to research and learn about the California Gold Rush. Use this packet with the Internet, your social studies textbook, or trade books - it can be used with any curriculum! This resource will help your students enhance their research
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Exploring Lines, Shapes, Area, and Perimeter
Geometry GOLD RUSH
GOLD FEVER!
The date is January 24, 1848.
The location is Sutter’s Mill, on the American River, Sacramento Valley.
Early that morning, a California settler named James Marshall was building a sawmill along the American River, when so
This is a California Gold Rush Simulation perfect for a day of Gold Rush fun! There are five activities set for twenty minutes. In all, the activities should take a little over an hour and a half.
This activity pairs with with The California Gold Rush Investigation and is perfect as an end of un
Grade 5 – Australian Gold Rush BUNDLE – Save 30%
Year level: Five
Australian Curriculum Content Descriptor:
ACHASSS109, ACHASSK108, ACHASSI102
We’ve bundle all of our Australian Gold Rush resources together to save you money and to make your planning and teaching easier! This bundle contains
This activity is a great way to wrap up your unit of study on the California Gold Rush. This project can be used for classwork, homework, a culmination assessment to your social studies unit, group assignment, or just for a fun social studies activity! This is meant to be a print and go activity, wi
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Let's Head West for the Gold Rush!!!
A nine section extension menu for students to use when studying the Californi Gold Rush! A great way to get students to research, write creatively, and make a variety of presentations. There is a lot of differentiation here, students can choose on their own, w
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Thank you so much for your consideration of this 125-page supplemental resource pack. These gold rush activities are designed to improve the critical thinking, creative thinking, communication, research skills, and affective thinking of your students. This is a great resource for use in the regula
Add a new and fun dimension to your study of the Australian gold rushes. This layered word book spells the word GOLDRUSH and each page contains questions for students to investigate and answer. A note-taking table is included to support students as they investigate the answers to the questions.
The
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The California Gold Rush Escape Room will take students on a secret mission around the classroom! This escape room has students decode interesting facts about the mass immigration called the Gold Rush. The California Gold Rush Escape Room has students walking around the classroom breaking codes.
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Manifest Destiny: the Oregon Territory, the Mexican-American War, the California Gold Rush, and More
This lesson teaches students about Manifest Destiny and its impact on America. The major themes of this lesson are the dispute over the Oregon Territory, the Mexican-American War, and the California
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Students will have a great time solving 20 multistep word problems relating to the California Gold Rush! Play indoors or outside, just copy cards and answer sheet and you are set! Students can work individually or in partners. Concepts include addition and subtraction of large numbers, multiplicatio
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Looking for a fun and interactive way to teach your students about the California Gold Rush?
This one-day simulation is an easy way to allow students to "live" the life of a Pioneer during the gold rush.
Product includes: Teacher Directions, Simulation Station Cards and Directions, Recording Sheet,
This internet scavenger hunt directs students to a website. Students will use the website about the California Gold Rush to answer questions provided on the worksheets. This is an awesome way to incorporate technology into your classroom!
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- 2 page internet scavenger hunt
- answer key
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This collection of three webquests provides a comprehensive look at the expansion of the United States into the wild west.
The first Webquest covers Westward Expansion.
The second WebQuest covers the Homestead Act and the land rush.
The third WebQuest covers The California Golf Rush.
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I have my students create a mining journal as a culminating project after we finish learning about the California 49ers coming with the dream to find gold. I have them become a 49er and pretend to travel across the country, imagining the life the miners led. This journal is a narrative that shows
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This bundled product includes 8 Reading Passages, 8 pages of Comprehension Questions, Teacher's Keys, Classroom Enrichment Activities, 36 Unique Bingo Cards, 24 Word and Clue cards, and Graphic Organizers. Great for Substitute Teachers!
This bundled product is great for your studies on Westward Exp
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The Gold Rush uses Nonfiction Informational Text, FOUR Interactive Notebook Assignments, and a balanced mix of engaging higher and lower level activities to teach students about events leading up to the California Gold Rush, the Forty Niners, Gold Rush Towns and Mining Camps, Native American Conflic
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Editable Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions (RST 1)With 3 informational passages (“California Gold Rush,” “Finding Gold,” and “John Sutter”), this resource is perfect to use as an actual classroom assessment or as test prep.
Product Details for RST 1 (Research Simulation Task Product No.
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This BINGO game contains 8 different student cards, as well as a caller card. This is a great resource to use in your classroom simply for fun or to accompany a social studies unit on Westward Expansion, the Gold Rush, etc. It could also be used for science studies on rocks and minerals, character
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In this social studies resource, there is a nonfiction reading passage based on the the California Gold Rush of 1848, Forty-niners, pioneers "rushing west", and the general time period between 1848-1855. Save time by adding social studies content with your reading texts and meet each reader's needs
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Problem: LeAnn and I (the teachers behind Thank A Teacher) love the California Gold Rush. That shouldn't be a problem except we have way too much information! Sometimes too much of a good thing leaves us feeling a little overwhelmed. LeAnn does her Gold Rush unit near the end of the school year whic
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This hands-on and engaging activity allows students to create a chronological timeline of the major events of the Australian Gold Rush.
There are two options for this activity; the first is to create an expandable timeline and the second is to create a linear timeline. The information has been p
This exciting free-for-all game will bring the excitement of the Gold Rush to your classroom! Using a pair of dice, each group will try to gain as many pieces of gold as possible for 2 years. But be careful, robbers and crooks are around every corner. The group with the most gold wins! This file
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The California Gold Rush story map is a great way for students to learn the story of the gold rush. Much of the lore of California was passed by word of mouth, and this activity gives students an opportunity to learn just a few of fabulous stories of the Golden State.
Students produce a colorful s
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California Gold Rush Webquest: What did the California Gold Rush Really Cost? (Consumer Price Index Activity)
Students will gain knowledge about the California Gold Rush by completing an internet-based worksheet. This webquest uses a consumer price index website to help students understand the “rea
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Another Reader's Theater Script in my Ms. Bie Ografee series!
Learn about the Gold Rush and the '49ers.
Students will learn lots of information about the California Gold Rush with this play, A Visit with Murdoch McLeary, A Gold Prospector during the California Gold Rush.
There are 9 audience ques
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One of the most significant events in Australian history is that of the gold rushes. When gold was discovered it generated gold fever where people from far and wide made their way to the gold fields to try their luck and strike it rich.
This Gold Rush WebQuest will assist your students to gain a gr
Each product in this series can stand alone.
Problem: We love the California Gold Rush. That shouldn't be a problem except we have way too much information! Sometimes too much of a good thing leaves us feeling a little overwhelmed. Usually the Gold Rush unit occurs near the end of the school year w
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This product is great when studying one or many gold rushes. Several standards from 3rd to 5th grade are covered.
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-Teacher directions of how to use in the classroom
-2 page Alaska Gold Rush reading passage
-Alaska Gold Rush Supplies list
-Alaska reading passage comprehension questions
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This set can be used as stand alone games or used with our companion Gold Rush Articles. Fun, easy and a great review!
Games Include:
Early Days
Gold Fever
Overland Route
Sea Routes
Mining Tools
Minorities
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This is a mini-themed unit for students to practice opinion writing. First, students will read a passage about the pros and cons for the prospectors and 49ers (forty-niners) of the Gold Rush. Then they will brainstorm some pros and cons and decide if they would have moved west.
After that, they w
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Students read a brief background on the California Gold Rush and a primary source on one man's experience prospecting for gold. They answer 15 questions, complete one creative task, and analyze 5 images (prompts provided). The answers are provided where appropriate and this would be great for a su
This download includes both the 45-slide PowerPoint AND the graphic organizer (in MS WORD and PDF format). Enjoy!
The graphic organizer has been made to fit one paper (front and back) for easy printing and copying.
This series of PowerPoint slides allow students to follow along and find definitio
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Manifest Destiny
California Gold Rush and 49ers
Aim: Why did people move to California?
Included in this resource:
• Cover Page
• Student centered Do Now question
• The California Gold Rush document analysis activity
• Documents include:
- Before the Rush
- Life in the Mining Camps
- Miners from
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This game is a great way to learn about and review the events of the California Gold Rush.
Topics included:
John Sutter
James Marshall
Sam Brannan
President Polk
Levi Strauss
mining techniques
African Americans
Chinese
Mexicans
Women
and more!
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Quickly and easily increase interest and attention in your therapy sessions! This quick play game is so much fun for the student and you can get lots of drill and practice of articulation skills! A great reinforcement game that you can use with any goal!
Use this game year around to keep your stude
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Gold Rush is meant to be completed “Escape Room” style. Students are given 5 tasks to complete during the day. All tasks meet 3rd and 4th grade math standards and are meant to be completed in teams. In my classroom, we broke the students into 5 groups. Students are told that they need to complete al
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California Gold Rush Webquest
Students will research the California Gold Rush by completing a great internet-based worksheet. The California Gold Rush Webquest uses a very student friendly website that covers the basics of events and facts about the gold rush. Please check out the website by clicki
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Use these step by step picture directions to make
No Sew Rag Dolls
using scraps of materials!
Easy to assemble and easy to prepare.
I use these directions each year for our Colonial Day Rotation Stations.
Each station is 15-20 minutes, and if the materials are prepped in advance, the dolls can b
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