Vocabulary

California has many regions.

The Sacramento delta has rich farmland.

The Gold Rush was very important to California’s future.

Where did they discover gold?

June 26 we will go to Empire Mine.

Grass Valley is a foothill town.

The gold discovery caused California to develop.

Sutter’s Fort is a historic site.

The Napa Valley is an important wine region.

There are some large dairy farms in California.

The agricultural economy is important to California.

 A rancher raises cattle.

John Sutter was a German immigrant.

The Sacramento River delta is shaped like delta, a letter in the Greek alphabet.

A canal is a narrow channel that carries water.

 Levees protect towns and cities from floods.

 There are small islands in the delta that people go to for recreation

He is a descendant of the first Chinese that came to California.

Here are some sites to explore about California's missions:

California Missions Interactive

Virtual Tour of California Missions

Californnia MIssion Studies Association

California Missions Online Project

Historic Photos of Missions

California Missions

Puzzles usually engage students and give them an opportunity to review vocabulary. Here are a few resources to help you create puzzles for your students:

Eclipse Crossword Creator is free software that you can download from home (it is currently blocked on the SCUSD network since it is a game)

Lantern Fish/ Boggle's World has a crossword page that has ready to use crosswords

Discovery Education has an online puzzlemaker that makes several types of puzzles. You can also buy a  CD version.

Here's the Health Jeopardy game I demonstrated at the June staff meeting. I got the template from Kim Overstreet's page. Most of the clip art came from Purdue University's foreign language clip art page.

Longman's Dictionary of American English has an online version. It requires free registration, but offers all of the features of the CD that is offered with the dictionary.