Looking for great unit study material? The book What was the Gold Rush? By Joan Holub is a great reading resource for a short but meaningful unit study. Explore this FREE Gold Rush Unit Study which includes pages for math, writing, geography, history, and more.
The California Gold Rush was a mass migration bringing 300,000 people to the state. Of California. It began at the beginning of 1848 when a man named James W. Marshall actually found gold in a small piece of land at Sutter’s Mill Coloma.
Did you know that it was during this time that this group of people was coined the gold-seeking forty-niners? Yes, that is right, the name of the San Francisco 49ers was from this very time. This is a fun and interesting part of our country’s history.
In this free Gold Rush unit study, your kids will learn about how many came to hear about the gold in Coloma, how they got there, what happened once they arrived, information about gold, how gold is mined, and more.
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