Young scholars utilize a teacher created gold bearing river to understand the process of panning for gold.  In this gold panning lesson, students  participate in an activity to simulate gold panning.  Young scholars might...

Young scholars investigate gold. In this gold panning lesson plan, students demonstrate the process of mining through an experiment using two boxes of sand. Young scholars design a safe way to mine gold.

In this gold panning cloze procedure instructional activity, students review a brief selection that is missing 12 words and then attempt to fill in each blank with a word they think the author might have used. A word bank is provided.

Describes the impact of the California Gold Rush of 1848 which brought hundreds of thousands of gold-seeking migrants to the region. This massive influx of people to a place with little law enforcement and no infrastructure led to...