Colorado Gold Rush Investigation!
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"Eureka! Gold Discovered in Colorado!
The time? 1859.
The place? The Front Range of Colorado. Gold has been discovered near Pike’s Peak and gold fever is quickly spreading across the the United States. As a local resident of Missouri, you cannot wait to head west and try your luck in the gold fields. Fortune surely awaits, but you will have to risk your life on the quest to find it. In this project, you will review all that you have learned about our great state! You will also experience what life was like for those who traveled west during the late 1850s. Do you have what it takes to survive this journey?
This resource incorporates cooperative learning and game play as students participate in a Colorado Gold Rush Adventure!
Students travel through the Colorado Gold Rush, investigate life as a 59er, and complete a final project merging historical facts and narrative writing. As they move through the challenges, students complete journals documenting their life as a 59er.
This is an adventure through the 1859 Gold Rush! Student's will experience life as a 59er while learning about Colorado Statehood.
Key standards addressed
This packet gives students a chance to answer questions in both written response and fill in the blank form. It will assess their ability to recall vital facts from CO Social Studies Standards and will also give them a chance to analyze information given to them through primary sources.
This is currently only available as a PDF file and digitally
Students travel through the Colorado Gold Rush, investigate life as a 59er, and complete a final project merging historical facts and narrative writing. As they move through the challenges, students complete journals documenting their life as a 59er.
This is an adventure through the 1859 Gold Rush! Student's will experience life as a 59er while learning about Colorado Statehood.
Key standards addressed
- Louisiana Purchase
- California Gold Rush History
- Economics
- Government
This packet gives students a chance to answer questions in both written response and fill in the blank form. It will assess their ability to recall vital facts from CO Social Studies Standards and will also give them a chance to analyze information given to them through primary sources.
This is currently only available as a PDF file and digitally