Activities

**Boomtown Activities **:



**1.** **Google Earth ** *Tour the trails Americans took to reach California
 * Tour the gold miners trails throughout the state of California
 * [|Map]
 * Look at satelite images of what California looked like as early as the 1930's and analyze how our country has changed


 * 2. Wordle**
 * Use wordle as a fun way to display vocabulary
 * [|Boomtown Wordle]


 * 3. Blog**
 * Start a classroom blog about the gold rush
 * Allow students to post questions and answers


 * 4. Skype**
 * Interview a miner
 * On the blog allow students to post questions they want to ask during the interview


 * 5. Storyboard**
 * [|Vocabulary PowerPoint]


 * 6. Spreadsheets**
 * [|Boomtown Spelling]
 * [|Published Spelling]
 * [|Spelling Test]
 * [|Grades]