Welcome and great to see all you beautiful people! I hope that you are ready to go and excited about the fact that we have a three day weekend ahead of us! I know I am : ) Today in class we will continue to work on our California's Gold Project, as well as beginning to work on our California Road Trip! This road trip is a new activity that I am pioneering this year so I am excited to see what you all come up with! Below you will find our agenda, homework, and resources for the day.
Objectives:
- Research and map the directions to points of interest in California with the use of Google Maps
- History Today
- Prompt: California's Gold
- What has been the most difficult aspect of this project so far? What steps do you take to determine which region your landmark/choice is in?
- Google Classroom -California's Gold -COMPLETE
- Project Work Day
- Find 8 places to visit (two for each region we researched). One place is your choice, the other place will come from the list of California Historical Landmarks (See links below)
- Complete the fields of the table for each place you "discover" around California.
- You will use Google Maps for your task.
- Select a place/town/city within each region (pick one with a place that has some type of tourist attraction or famous place)
- Using Google maps find the distance and time to that city from Leland H.S. (use the “directions” tab on google maps to get this info)
- Take a screen capture of the google maps driving instructions
- Online article with List of 50 California Historical Landmarks
- Also, you can search California Historical Landmarks by county.
- Work on USA Map - Maps due January 28!
- Turn in California's Gold to Classroom by 11:59PM tonight
- Current Event #2 due January 20
- Current Event #3 due January 27
- North America Map Test January 28
