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Social Science-California History

1. Digital Citizenship

2. Map Skills

• Text features included in maps

• Finding California on a world map and continent map

• Globe-Latitude and Longitude

• 2 dimensional map that includes: state capitol, important cities, landmarks, key, directions, knowing bordering states, oceans, and lakes.

• 3D map that includes regions

• California resources with an emphasis on the drought and water conservation: Include a student/group project: Ideas for conservation, graphs or charts, average water consumption compared to other states or even north vs south.

     3. Colonial California

• The First Californians:Spanish Explorers and Settlers-Focus on telling stories of these people and how their lives affected California now and then.

• Hernado Cortez

• Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo

• Sir Francis Drake

• Spanish soldiers and priests

• Gaspar de Portola

• Father Junipero Serra

• Californian missions

• Map the missions adding on to the map in unit one.

     4. Mexican California

• Traders in California

• From Missions to Ranchos

• Ranchos and Pueblos

     5. Newcomers Change California

• Pioneers

• Jedediah Smith

• Abel Stearns

• John August Sutter

• Wagon Trains

• Mexico Defeated

• The Gold Rush

• James W. Marshall

• The Forty-niners

• Travel by Sea

• Mining for gold

• California becomes a State

• Family History Project

• Biddy Mason

• Law and Order

• Sandra Day O’Connor

• Californians Lose Their Land

     6.  Growth and Development

• The Transcontinental Railroad

• Agriculture

• Southern California

• The New Californians

• Culture Conflicts