Gold rush activities

Ideas for having a Gold Rush Party at home including meal and music suggestions as well as fun and educational activities for kids.

Upper elementary ideas for the California Gold Rush. This includes a STEM Challenge about building a raft. #teachersareterrific #goldrush

A really fun experiment for kids! Kids can make their own pot of gold overnight, and learn about crystal formation with this fun science experiment!

Make this amazing liquid gold slime for a sensory play slime recipe with a dazzling, metallic twist! This is so beautifully mesmerising that you’ll be fighting the kids to play with it too! As you know I can’t keep the kids away from the slime making supplies for more than a few days at a...Read More »

The California Gold Rush is a fun American history topic to learn about! Check out this unit study with free printables including note taking pages, multiplication story problems, following directions, writing prompts and more! Videos, hands on activities and online resources included, too! #americanhistory #goldrush #unitstudy

Gold Rush Silly Mad Libs Game for Kids | Woo! Jr. Kids Activities

If you are a California 4th grade teacher gearing up to teach the Gold Rush, or if you are planning to cover this period in your upcoming social studies unit, it is important that our students have an opportunity to learn about this period from various perspectives. I've put together a virtual field trip that focuses on building background knowledge of the Gold Rush from Sutter's Mill to a tour of several boom towns, as well as a look at this period from multiple perspectives.

My family had our reunion a month ago in the Black Hills of South Dakota (you know, where Mt. Rushmore is?) This is only a few hours from w...

Check out this fun free Gold Rush Word Search, free for use at home or in schoolThis is a printable Gold Rush Word Search pdf...

This is part 3 of a 4 part hands-on unit study on Westward Expansion and Pioneers. Pan for "gold," bake Gold Rush Sourdough Biscuits, race to deliver mail on the Pony Express, build the Transcontinental Railroad out of craft sticks, and more! My lessons are geared toward 3rd-4th grade level children and their siblings. These are lessons I created to do with a weekly homeschool co-op. We meet each week for 2 1/2 hours and have 27 children between the ages of 1-13. Use these fun lessons with…