Content Standard
Many California school districts have the students create a multiple-medium project, such as writing a paper or building a model of a mission.
The California State Board of Education has identified the following as the standard content for this project:
- 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.
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- Discuss the major nations of California Indians, including their geographic distribution, economic activities, legends, and religious beliefs; and describe how they depended on, adapted to, and modified the physical environment by cultivation of land and use of sea resources.
- Identify the early land and sea routes to, and European settlements in, California with a focus on the exploration of the North Pacific (e.g., by James Cook, Vitus Bering, Juan Cabrillo), noting especially the importance of mountains, deserts, ocean currents, and wind patterns.
- Describe the Spanish exploration and colonization of California, including the relationships among soldiers, missionaries, and Indians (e.g., Juan Crespí, Junípero Serra, Gaspar de Portolà).
- 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.
- Describe the daily lives of the people, native and nonnative, who occupied the presidios, missions, ranchos, and pueblos.
- Discuss the role of the Franciscans in changing economy of California from a hunter-gatherer economy to an agricultural economy.
- Describe the effects of the Mexican War for Independence on Alta California, including its effects on the territorial boundaries of North America.
- Discuss the period of Mexican rule in California and its attributes, including land grants, secularization of the missions, and the rise of the rancho economy.
Read more about this topic: California 4th Grade Mission Project
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