The game ends when one player reaches San Francisco. The Research Teams read the paragraphs and determine what paragraph they would like to research in the Media Center or classroom library. After collecting more information, the Research Team builds a book jacket that displays the information in an artistic design on the front cover with important facts on the inside of the cover. Students form teams to conduct Media Center searches for historial information. Students visualize the information they discover by building book jackets about their historial subject.
Students summarize the important facts from their research.
Art supplies for the creation of book jackets, examples of book jackets. Read a story about the Gold Rush and Frontier Life in America. Write a history log about the facts you read. From the facts, produce a letter pretending you are on the frontier writing to your cousin back in New York. Add illustrations and put letters and drawings on a Frontier Life Bulletin Board.