The Gold Rush Week 3Day 10: Web Quest (60 minutes) Objective Students will be able to identify

and describe the main events during the time of the Gold Rush in California. Standards CCSSR: 2. Explain events, procedures, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text, including what happened and why, based on specific information in the text. CCSS-RL: 3. Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text CSSCS: 4.3 Students explain the economic, social and political life in California from the Gold Rush; 1. Identify locations of settlements such as Sutters Fort 2. Analyze the effects of the Gold Rush on settlements, on daily life, politics, and the physical environment. ISTE 3: Research Information Fluency ISTE 4: Critical Thinking, Problem Solving and Decision Making ISTE; NETS S 5: Digital CitizenshipStudents understand human, cultural, and societal issues related to technology and practice legal and ethical behavior. Preparation To prepare to this lesson, you need to bookmark the Gold Rush Web Quest on the class set of computers. !""#$%%&'()"*+,-(./012%343%56%7%3448383899:;%<< Make sure to review the contents of the Web Quest in order to instruct the students how to properly complete it and to be able to adequately answer clarifying questions during the lesson. Student groupings of three should also be ready beforehand. A schedule for the use of computers for each group should also be done prior to the lesson.

Materials Class set of computers Teacher computer Paper/pencil

Guided Instruction Explain to the students the purpose of a Web Quest project. Tell them that a Web Quest directs students to learn about a specific topic on a deeper level. They get to investigate different areas of that subject. The one for this lesson will be on the topic of the Gold Rush. Put the Web Quest up on the teacher computer and project it to the class on the document camera. Detail what is expected as they work through this project and give them a visual example what each step looks like. Once the Web Quest is done, the students can go back to their desk and hand draft a conclusion about what they have learned. When a computer is available, each student will then be directed to post that writing in their Gold Rush blog that they started at the beginning of the unit. Independent Activity Students will visit the Web Quest on the Gold Country and write a conclusion stating how the Gold Rush affected CA in the areas of politics, economy and immigration. Students will post the conclusion on your Gold Rush blog. Homework For homework this evening, students should complete any unfinished work from the Web Quest. They should also show an adult what they learned. <