Teachers:
Lisa Babb
Peggy Breitner
Genny Wally
Lora Beasley
Nicole Hoffman
Emily Williams
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The Gold Rush experience interested lower elementray age students in a historical event, peaking their desire to physically and cognitively understand the difficulties of the 49ers in the travel
to and from California. They experienced difficulties, failures, and successes in active scenarios that revealed the social mechanics of changing demographics and cultural interplay.
The curriculum module reflects the universal theme of Western Expansion and democratic symbols of personal freedom and unihibited geographic movement.

The Gold Rush curriculum emphasized understanding problems associated with prospecting as parallel to the human problems in developing their own identities.

Gifted children generate novel ideas on their own and in collaboration with others.

Bright young children like to figure things out by themselves.

Participants developed a greater appreciatation for the role that the California Gold Rush played in the expansion, economic development, and modernization of our country.
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