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The Elementary Teacher's Guide to the Gold Rush For the first time, an instructional guide for elementary
school teachers who teach the California Gold Rush written by a miner and teacher. The
Elementary Teacher's Guide to the Gold Rush is a step-by-step guide
intended for fourth gade teachers in compliance with the California Content Standards for
History-Social Science. This unique cross disciplinary approach to the
gold rush includes a complete physical education lesson as well. The
physical activities illustrate the difficulties that 49ers experienced
reaching the California gold fields. The Elementary Teacher's Guide to the Gold Rush
offers a complete and easy to follow lesson plan package enabling you, the teacher, to lead your students
through an authentic gold rush camp experience. You become the infamous
gold rush guide, James Beckwourth. As Beckwourth, you guide your class through
a realistic adventure located within the historic mining camp called "Nelson
Point." Your class lives the California Gold Rush. They experience
the difficulties of reaching the gold fields. They learn firsthand the
mining process. You illustrate the economic and social factors which
made the gold rush era a unique chapter in California's development.
Most importantly, your students realize the historical significance
of the world wide experience called the California Gold Rush. The Elementary Teacher's Guide to the Gold Rush
is complete with easy to copy props and task cards. It requires a
minimum amount of prep time to present a lesson guaranteed to create
a memorable learning experience resulting in improved results in standardized
testing.
REVIEWS [The Elementary Teacher's Guide to the Gold Rush] is a great concept and I think it's a wonderful "hands-on" asset for teachers and students. The history is good and the characters all fit nicely. Great job!
[The Elementary Teacher's Guide to the Gold Rush] is really interesting, I wish my teachers would have made P.E. that fun for me ... The set up and presentation is clear ... and the ethnic diversity in the gold camps comes across well.
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