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Social Studies Resources
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General Resources
California Heritage Collection
The Bancroft Library shares an archived online collection of more than 28,000 images of California's history and culture.
California History Online
Explore California's rich history from the early Native Americans through the Great Depression. Nice Timeline interface.
Oh, California
Houghton Mifflin makes available a variety of resources that support and extend the textbook "Oh California". The resources include lessons, unit activities and resources, home/school connection, and more.
Geography
California's Coastal Geography
Ceres provides excellent information about the California coastal mountains, streams and rivers, marine terraces, bluffs and headlands, coastal sand dunes, beaches, wetlands, rocky intertidal, islands with off shore rocks, nearshore waters, and open ocean.
California's Natural Resources
Learn about California's precious natural resources in the coastal regions, forests, deserts, wetlands, and water.
Color Landform Atlas of the United States
Here is a great resource for topographical maps at the county level for each of the states. It provides a shaded relief map of California, county map, black and white map, satellite image, postscript map and links to other resources.
Images of the California Environment
The Geo-Image Project provides a clickable map for photos of California's environmental regions and subjects.
What Do Maps Show
Here's a resource to help students learn the difference between a relief map, road map and a topographical map.
Virtual Museum of the Mojave Desert
Schools of California Online Resources for Education present "A Virtual Museum of the Mojave Desert" aligned to Grade 3 and Grade 4 California History-Social Science Standards. Topics covered are: animals, plants, people, weather, and saving California's deserts. Also included are suggested class activities.
The First Californians: Native Americans
This ThinkQuest, available in both English and Spanish, provides information on the history and lifestyle of California Native Americans.
Lecture topics presented by Chuck Smith at Cabrillo College.
Chumash Indian Life
The Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History provides information about the Chumash life, food, medicine, myths, games, painted caves, language, and a 13,000 year timeline.
Great resources for Californian Native American Tribes. Contains dozens of links for many of Califorina's native Americans.
Muwekma Ohlone History
Learn about the Ohlone Native Americans who lived in the San Francisco area.
Shapes and Uses of California Indian Basketry
Pictures and uses of baskets which include plant food gathering and transport, storage, food serving, food preparation, gift baskets and more.
Explorers
Coastal Navigation and Exploration of the Monterey Bay Area
The Monterey County Historical Society provides a short history of the European exploration of the western coast of North America from 1542 - 1696. The explorers that are included in the articles are: Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, Bartolome Ferrelo, Francis Drake, Francisco Gali, Sebastian Rodriguez Cermeno, Sebastian Vizcaino and more.
European Voyages of Exploration
This site includes short biographies about Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, Hernando Cortez, Juan Bautista de Anza, Sir Francis Drake, and Sebastian Vizcaino.
Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo
Learn about Cabrillo who led the first European expedition to explore the west coast of the United States.
European Explorer Biographies from Wikipedia (Click here and type Explorers name or click link below to go directly to the named explorer)
Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia and anyone can edit so be sure that the informaiton you get sounds reliable. However, it is a really cool site that has contributors from around the world. Check out info on Explorers such as...
Sebastián Rodríguez Cermeño
Learn about Cermeño and his exporations of the California coast in search of a safe harbor for Spain.
Zoom Explorers
Excellent data base of explorer biographies. Some have more than others, but there is something here for pretty much everyone.
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Good biography of Cabrillo. From the U.S. Department of the Interior
http://www.mms.gov/omm/pacific/kids/Cabrillo.htm
Biography written for students from Gold Ridge School in Rohnert Park
http://www.crpusd.org/goldridge/cabrillo.htm
Nice summary of Cermeño's life and career.
http://www.toucanvalley.com/caexp_s.htm
Brief biography of Cortes and a detailed description of his conquest of the Aztecs. Advanced reading.
http://www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/eurvoya/aztec.html.
Biography written for students from Gold Ridge School in Rohnert Park
http://www.crpusd.org/goldridge/drake.htm
Bio written for students at Gold Ridge School in Rohnert Park
http://www.crpusd.org/goldridge/vizcaino.htm
From the San Diego Historical Society. Biography of Vizcaino
http://www.sandiegohistory.org/bio/vizcaino/vizcaino.htm.
Missions
The Spanish Missions of California
This site is an excellent resource for our class mission report (check out the "Mission Pages" link). It also does a great job stressing the importance of citing references and avoiding plagerism.
California Mission History
This site offers a history of each of the 21 California Missions and authentic California Mission Music.
California Missions Resource Center
This site provides a brief video tour of each mission using Java. It also has an excellent Timeline and Glossary about mission life.
California Mission Interactive
Two bicyclists share their journey to twelve of the California missions.
California Missions Project for 4th Grade Classrooms
Participate by visiting an historic site during a virtual fieldtrip designed for 4th grade classrooms in California.
California Missions, a Web Quest
Students use Internet resources and other resource material to research the California Missions and create presentations using HyperStudio, PowerPoint, or something similar. Included on this site are links to mission resources and teacher resource websites.
Cyber Serra Virtual Mission Tour
Newhall Elementary School created Cyber Serra, a modern Father Junipero Serra, to serve as your tour guide for the 21 California Missions.
Explore the California Missions
Designed as a fourth grade WebQuest.
Take a vitual mission tour of each of the 21 missions in California!
The Spanish Missions of California
This ThinkQuest entry was developed by two high school students to include the history of missions, a virtual tour of San Juan Capistrano, a glimpse into the lives of different mission inhabitants, and more.
Mexican California
Description of the Mexican American War with possible causes and results explained.
Mexican California
Background information from the California History Collection.
Mexican Independence Day Lesson
K-12 Lesson from the California Heritage Collection at UC Berkley. Contains suggested discussions, references, paintings, and assessment.
Richardson Adobe: Los Coches Rancho
A visit to California State Historic Landmark 494 includes a plaque, site photo and brief history.
Gold Rush
By the Great Horn Spoon: A Gold Rush Adventure
This is an excellent companion resource for teaching "By The Great Horn Spoon" by Sid Fleischman. The text is available in English and Spanish. You can take a journey with the main character following his route on an image map, visit San Francisco, or join a miner in gold country. Also available are great classroom activities, lesson plans on writing and links to other Gold Rush web sites.
California's Gold Rush
The Oakland Museum of California provides a virtual tour of a real exhibition at the museum with curriculum materials for teachers.
Gold Dust or Bust
Musical plays for the musically timid teacher. A musical for grades 2 through 6th which highlights the gold rush.
The Gold Rush
PBS online makes available information and fun facts about the gold rush, with teacher resources.
Gold Rush Sesquicentennial
The Sacramento Bee chronicles the Gold Rush's 150 years celebration by providing interesting articles about the period.
The Museum of the City of San Francisco
The Museum of the City of San Francisco offers articles and primary sources about the Gold Rush. Resources for California History are organized by an historical period index, subject and year. There is also a listing of over 80 biographies.
Wayback Machine - Gold Rush
Travel in the Wayback Machine to 1848. Be present at the discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill and listen to the events that led up to the gold rush.
Immigrants
Angel Island
Learn about the history of Angel Island and the part it played in the Chinese immigrant's experience between 1910 and 1940.
Chinese-American Contribution to Transcontinental Railroad
Chinese Start Monterey Fishing Industry
Chinese immigrants played an important part in the development of the Cannery Row area in Monterey. Learn how they helped to make Monterey one of California's most successful fishing ports.
Discussing Immigration Through Literature
The Teacher's Asian Studies Summer Institute shares activities for "Coming to America" by Betsy Maestro, "The Lotus Seed" by Sherry Garland, and "Grandfather's Journey" by Allen Say. Each book is summarized, and activities are offered in the areas of language arts, social studies, art, and science.
A Jar of Dreams
The San Diego County of Education provides activities and web resources for "A Jar of Dreams", the story of a young Japanese-American girl growing up in California during the 1930's, a time of great racial prejudice. Activities are tied to the 5th Grade Language Arts Standards.
The Multicultural American West
Access multicultural information about Native Americans, African, Asian/Pacific, and Chicano/Latino, present and past cultures, and women and men of the West.
National Japanese American Historical Society
Site dedicated to the historical preservation, promotion, and dissemination of materials relating to the history and culture of Japanese Americans.
Growth and Development
California State Railroad: Railroad History
This short history of the railroad focuses on the linking of the nation, the golden age of railroading, and the era of expansion to the present day.
Central Pacific Railroad: Photographic History Museum
Chinese-American Contribution to the Transcontinental Railroad
Driving the Last Spike
The Museum of the City of San Francisco offers a short history about the coming of the Transcontinental Railroad in the form of a news article about the "Big Four".
Modern California
California
The site links to information about famous Californians, climate, colleges, constitution, courts, economy, capitol tour, flag, flower , governor, highway markers, large cities, national parks, newspapers, and many more topics.
Official California Home Page
This is a rich resource of state sites for government, health care, agriculture, business, education, emergency services, technology, history, and much, much more.
Virtual Tour of California
California Mission Interactive
Two bicyclists share their journey to twelve of the California missions.
California State Historical Landmarks
Take a photo tour of many of the California State Historical Landmarks. Landmarks are organized by counties.
Virtual Museum of the Mojave Desert
Schools of California Online Resources for Education present "A Virtual Museum of the Mojave Desert" aligned to Grade 3 and Grade 4 California History-Social Science Standards. Topics covered are: animals, plants, people, weather, and saving California's deserts. Also included are suggested class activities.
Martin Luther King Jr. Resources
Biography of MLK from Wikipedia
Covers much of his life and gives a good summary of many parts. However, be careful with this site since it can be edited by anyone.
Nobleprize.org
A brief biography of Dr. King from the organization that awards the Noble Peace Prize
Timeline of MLK
A brief timeline of his life that gives short clips of information about important parts of his llfe.
Seattle Times
Great collection of facts, pictures, and a timeline of King's life from a trusted source.
Great for links to your question
This a a brief biography of King's life, but the best part is that it has many links to help you find answers to hard to find questions too.
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