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American
History Curriculum Daily Schedule Week 29
This is our daily schedule
page for week 29 of our American history curriculum.
Materials
and books are listed here in more detail.
See
below the schedule for notes.
| Week 29 |
Day 1 |
Day
2 |
Day 3 |
Day 4 |
Day
5 |
| Workbooks |
The
Story of the U.S.A Book 2:
Chapter 11 America Reaches from
Coast to Coast (T-1) (M-1) |
American
Adventures True Stories From America’s Past 1770-1870:
1849
(8) The Gold Rush Days |
The
Story of the U.S.A Book 2:
Chapter 12 Gold in California
|
American
Adventures
Choose Activities |
American
Adventures
Choose Activities |
| Reader |
See
Science |
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. |
. |
. |
| Optional |
. |
This Country of Ours
77.
POLK–THE FINDING OF GOLD |
. |
This
Country of Ours
78.
TAYLOR-
UNION OR DISUNION |
. |
History Reading
|
Gold Rush Dogs - Choose a story
Children of the Gold Rush
Chapters
1-2
Study Guide |
Gold Rush Dogs - Choose a story
Children
of the Gold Rush
Chapters 3-4 |
Gold
Rush Dogs - Choose a story
Children
of the Gold Rush
Chapters 5-6 |
Gold Rush Dogs
- Choose a story
Children of the Gold Rush
Chapter 7 |
Gold Rush Dogs - Choose a story
Children
of the Gold Rush
Chapter 8 End! |
| Map/Globe |
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|
History
Pockets
|
History Pockets Moving West: (T-3)
Pocket
8 The Gold Rush |
. |
Panning
for gold science experiment |
. |
Gold
Fever acrostic |
| Notebooking |
Gold
Rush worksheet |
San
Francisco Times (newspaper type article with comprehension and discussion
questions)
|
President
Polk info and coloring page
|
Gold!
Discovery! info and coloring page |
Manifest
Destiny
|
| Science |
The
Magic School Bus Inside a Beehive |
Bee
science unit (to go with Pioneer Sampler) –97 page guide with worksheets,
diagrams, geography, science, etc. Excellent!
|
| Cooking |
.. |
. |
. |
.Sourdough
Recipe or any other type of homemade bread |
. |
| Crafts |
Easy
Make & Learn Projects: Colonial America: Look-Inside Log Cabin |
. |
Easy
Make & Learn Projects: Colonial America: Spinning Wheel model
|
. |
Dog
origami (for the Gold Rush dogs book) |
| Timeline
Entries |
1. 1846-1848
Mexican American War
Zachary Taylor led the army (Taylor
was born in 1784 and died in 1850)
1845-1849 President Polk
(made it so the U.S. stretched from coast to coast)
|
. |
3.
1826-1897 John Sutter
1848 Gold is found at Sutter’s Mill
by James Marshall |
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|
.. |
| Extras |
1. Rio Grande
River
Continue with a Pioneer Sampler |
Bees Video |
Old Settler’s Song |
Daily
Pioneer Life Video |
Wee
Sing:
Sacramento |
Reading notes: The Children
of the Gold Rush study guide has social studies activities, writing ideas, math,
a sourdough recipe and more.
Extras notes: Projects from A Pioneer
Sampler (these can be spread out over several weeks) include crafts, science,
math, cooking and more: Sap Experiment *sugar, 2 plastic cups, marker (science),
pioneer measuring (math), grow a potato plant (science), honey-butter *honey and
butter, make your own butter *whipping cream, jar (cooking), make your own cream
cheese *cheesecloth, plain yogurt, string, salt, optional dried herbs (cooking),
finger spinning *cotton, like from the top of a pill bottle, dye project *onion,
alum, washing soda, cotton cloth, punched tin picture *aluminum pie plate, nail,
hammer, pioneer water carrier, balance scale *2 small yogurt containers, nail,
string, coat hanger, pennies (math), homemade ink *walnut shells, vinegar, salt,
candle (for lampblack) Rollers/levers/ramps (science), drying apples *apples (cooking),
shadow shapes and puppets *flashlight, white cloth, wooden frame, cardboard, Popsicle
sticks (or skewers), lamp, stenciling *cardboard, utility knife (PARENT), paint
, jumping jack *cardboard, nail, brass paper fasteners, string |
