Students complete a variety of activities surrounding minerals, crystals, and mineralogy. They locate common minerals on a world map, complete a lab in which they identify the chemical and physical properties of various minerals, etc.

In this Saint Patrick's Day activity, students complete a 12 word crossword puzzle, using clues about St. Patrick's day to complete the puzzle.

In this reading comprehension/biography worksheet, students read 2 pages of information about Simon Bolivar. No comprehension questions are included, worksheets are for informational reading only.

In this is/are worksheet, students select either the verb is or are to complete a set of 22 sentences. Students may click on a check answer question.

In this lesson plan, students will consider "Metaphorical Gold: Mining the Gold Rush for Stories." The plan includes worksheets and other student materials that can be found under the resource tab.

The physical characteristics, history, and mining of gold in California are examined in this thorough site.

This site is based on the book The California Gold Country: Highway 49 Revisited by Elliot H. Koeppel. This page provides an interactive map showing gold mining camps that have survived and exist as towns today. Most of the place names...

"As Precious as Gold," is an online exhibit from the National Postal Museum which explores the rich history of the Alaskan/Klondike gold rushes. Find stories on extraordinary women, the trails, the Palm Sunday avalanche, the U.S. Postal...

The California State Parks presents a brief unit on the California Gold Rush including three lessons which begin with the westward movement to California for gold, the actual process of mining for gold, then the effects of the rush on...

This informative site delves into the difficulty of prospecting for gold. A detailed description of placer deposits and lode gold is included in this site.

Provides pictures and information about hydraulic mining where jets of water were used to break down gold-laden gravel banks for gold.

This site describes the process of mining for gold. Covers exploration, determining the mining method, analyzing the impact, building and operating the mine, ore processing, mine closure, and the reclamation process.

In the early decades of the 1800s, the southern Piedmont's gold mines attracted prospectors, investors, and miners. Tar Heel gold had first been found in 1799 on John Reed's farm in Cabarrus County, several miles west of the Uwharrie...

Provides information about the top ten gold-producing countries, including how much they produce and what percent of foreign currency reserves that is.

This CalGoldRush.com site contains an article on the effects that the California gold rush has on California's tourism. Many people still come from far lands to get a glimpse of what is was like to be a gold miner.

Read the exciting story of mining in Idaho, the state's first industry. Find out about the first discovery of gold and the migration that it set off soon after.

Heinrich Schliemann is briefly mentioned as part of a larger discussion about the geology of gold. A brief history of the precious metal refers to the gravesites discovered by Schliemann at the ancient city of Mycenae in Greece.

Original photographs depicting scenes from California during the Gold Rush. Illustrations of mines, miners at work, and the tools they used as well as the effect of the mining industry on California's landscape.

In this section, students will learn about the major discoveries and developments in western gold, silver, and copper mining in the mid-nineteenth century. They will be able to explain why the cattle industry was paramount to the...

An explanation of the role speculation in both mining and railroads played in the financial panic of 1893. An interesting article from the University of Nevada.

General information about the consumption and mining of gold.

This comprehensive resource looks at the discovery of gold through the use of nonconventional means. Students read diaries, newspapers, maps, photographs, and government documents and view things people used in their everyday lives.

Information about women in the California gold camps.

Wonderful primary resource on the California Gold Rush. Read actual letters and a diary--with explanatory annotations--by a prospector from 1850-1853.