 Introduction
This lesson will encourage group cooperation and
individual responsibility to explore the different aspects of the California
Mission Chain...including historical facts, details about what mission
life was like, floor plans and original illutrations of a particular mission.
Students will use the Internet as a resource for researching historical
information, floor plans, art work, and photographs. The culminating activity
will allow students to work as a group to build a replica of a California
Mission and present it to the class.
Subject:
Social Studies
Topic: California
Missions
Grade Level: Fourth
Student Lesson name and URL:
Standards
Addressed
Fourth
Grade Social Studies
4.2 Students describe the
social, political, cultural, and economic life and interactions among
people of California from the pre-Columbian societies to the Spanish mission
and Mexican
rancho periods.
4. Describe the
mapping of, geographic basis of, and economic factors in the placement
and
function of the Spanish missions; and understand how the mission system
expanded the
influence of Spain and Catholicism throughout New Spain and Latin America.
5. Describe the
daily lives of the people, native and nonnative, who occupied the presidios,
missions, ranchos, and pueblos.
Instructional
Objectives
Students
will be able to:
1.
do a search on the Internet to locate pictures, floor plans and historical
information on a specific
California Mission.
2.
as a group of 4, draw and label a floor plan, draw an illustration or make
a collage,
and write a report with historical information of a California Mission.
3.
build a model of their mission.
Student
Activities
Introductory
Activity
Show "The California Mission Chain" movie to class to introduce
them to the mission concept.
Do pre-assessment
to see what students already know about California Missions (link to quiz).
Also,
assess computer
skills. (Link to quiz.)
Enabling
Activity(ies)
1. Group children into heterogeneous
groups of 4 students.
2. Introduce project, goals and
define responsibilities of each group member's job..
3. Have students choose job for
each group member (historian, biologist, architect, artist). (LINK
to
student page)
Historian:
research and write report on historical facts about mission, including
year established,
who established
it, location, why location was chosen, number in mission chain, and any
other facts
of interest.
Anthropologist:research
and report on what mission life was like when mission was operational.
Architect:
research floor plan; draw and label and accurate floor plan of mission.
Artist:
research pictures of mission and draw an accurate illustration or create
a collage.
Culminating
Activity
Students
will build a model or replica of their mission and do a group presentation
of what they
learned
to the class.
Assessment
Print out a copy of the test to be given at the end of the Mission
Unit. Click on link below.
California Missions Test
Results
Results coming in 2002.
Web
Resources & Supplementary Materials
Introductory Activity
List and link the web resources
for this activity here. Also link supplementary materials such as PDF files
and /or document files.
Enabling Activity
List and link the web resources
for your learning activity(ies) here. Also link supplementary materials
such as PDF files and /or document files.
Culminating Activity
List and link the web resources
for your culminating activity here. Also link supplementary materials such
as PDF files and /or document files.
Martin Luther
King, Jr. K-8
480 Little
River Way
Sacramento,
CA 95831
Lynn Gabbert
SacLMG15@aol.com
Last Revised:
05/15/2001 |
California
Missions