D.+Bulletin+Board

**__The Gold Rush Mine__**  Dare to enter the Gold Rush Mine and explore the exciting events to come. Our Gold Rush Mine is an interactive bulletin board that provides four main activities that will lead them to panning for gold and striking it rich! They will start by naming missions on the white board cut out of California and end with panning for gold. Each time a student completes an activity, they can move their mining cart along the timeline. Students must do the activities in the order which they lie on the timeline. The activities include:  1. Name the missions (Day 2): In order for students to get their mining cart on the board the must write at least three missions on the California white board.  2. Wave your flag (Day 3):  Students will read about the history of the California State Flag. They will then color their own state flag.  3. Sutter's Mill (Day 6):  John Sutter was a man in search for gold. Students will work on a Sutter's Mill word search.  4. Hydraulics (Day 9): As mining for gold became a popular profession, technology was advancing everyday. Students will read letters from miners during the Gold Rush era and see what changes hydraulic mining had on the environment. Students will then write a letter summarizing and explaining the occurrences and affects hydraulic mining had on the environment.

5. Go 49's (Day 10:  The Forty-niner's were not just a football team, they were among the first miners to find gold. Students will create an annotated map about the travel that the forty-niner's had to do.

6. Eureka!!!: Students have struck it rich and completed every required activity on the board. They can now pan for gold and become wealthy in classroom riches. <span style="color: #a9a32d; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 22px;">7. Strike More: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">There are a extra activities that students can do for extra credit. There is a mining terms crossword puzzle, panning for gold worksheet, and gold rush word search with a picture search for each starred word.