Decades in Ink: Great Depression Diary Project
Students explore the Great Depression through historical context, event timeline planning, primary-source diary analysis, and first-person narrative writing.
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Impacts of the Nevada Gold Rush
This four-page worksheet explores the Comstock Lode, mining camps, boomtowns, and the economic and environmental impacts of the Nevada Gold Rush.
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This four-page worksheet explores the Comstock Lode, mining camps, boomtowns, and the economic and environmental impacts of the Nevada Gold Rush. Students analyze primary-source perspectives from headlines, miners, mine owners, laborers, and Paiute community members using evidence-based questions and a CER response.
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- Students will explain the causes and significance of the Nevada Gold Rush.
- Students will analyze differing perspectives in primary sources.
- Students will describe social, economic, and environmental impacts of mining.
- Students will construct a claim supported by historical evidence and reasoning.
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