California Gold Rush

**This product now contains a digital format in addition to a printable (PDF format), perfect for distance learning or paperless classrooms. 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 skills and encourage them to take ownership of their learning. Please check out the preview for a closer look.

Packet includes:

• Suggested Use (1 page)
• Digital Guide (1 page)
• Student Instructions for Digital Use (1 page)
• Student website/video suggestions (1 page)
• KWL/KWHL (2 pages)
• Inventions of the Gold Rush (1 page)
• The Gold Rush - How it All Began (1 page)
• Routes to Gold (1 page)
• Mining (1 page)
• A Miner's Life (1 page)
• Discrimination During the Gold Rush (1 page)
• Blank Writing/Poster Paper (3 pages)
• Important People During the Gold Rush (1 page)
• Important People During the Gold Rush Matching Activity (2 pages including key)
• Gold Rush Word Search (2 pages including key)
• The Price of Gold Then and Now (2 pages including key)
• Gold Rush Comprehension (2 pages including key)
• Gold! (1 page)
• Primary Source Documents (3 pages)
• Primary Source Document Worksheet Activity (1 page)

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