California Missions - 4th grade
Alternate Classroom Mission Project Ideas
- Compare and contrast presentation focused on the perspectives of Tongva, Chumash or other Native Californians with Spaniards in the missions.
- The 22nd California Mission An inquiry project where students create a 22nd mission, requiring critical thinking and creativity skills.
- Contact a California Native to come speak with the class.
- Create a timeline or infographic to compare Native Americans pre-missions to the present. Students will learn, among other things, that Native Americans still exist today.
English Resources
The Latino American Experience: The American Mosaic Highlights primary resources from missions, including images, letters and narratives
Exploring the California Missions: Learning Tools & Resources An incredible website by the Huntington Library that incorporates primary sources images, and lesson plans aligned with CCSS from multiple perspectives.
California Missions Native History A look at missions from Native points-of-view. Includes teaching materials, and clickable guide of the coastal missions, testimonials, and biographies.
California Missions Resource Center Offers a timeline, images, stories, and interactive map.
Chumash Life Resources about the Chumash presented by the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History
Gabrielino Tongva Podcasts by contemporary Tongva descendents about their past (including mission life) and present.
Zinn Education Project This article offers an alternative, contemporary viewpoint on the misconceptions and whitewashing of the California Missions and how these misconceptions are perpetrated through current curriculum and textbooks on the topic.
Spanish Resources
Las Misiones de California A summary of the CA missions circa 1760´s thru 1820´s
The Latino American Experience: The American Mosaic Highlights primary resources from missions, including images, letters and narratives
Exploring the California Missions: Learning Tools & Resources An incredible website by the Huntington Library that incorporates primary sources images, and lesson plans aligned with CCSS from multiple perspectives.
California Missions Native History A look at missions from Native points-of-view. Includes teaching materials, and clickable guide of the coastal missions, testimonials, and biographies.
California Missions Resource Center Offers a timeline, images, stories, and interactive map.
Chumash Life Resources about the Chumash presented by the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History
Gabrielino Tongva Podcasts by contemporary Tongva descendents about their past (including mission life) and present.
Zinn Education Project This article offers an alternative, contemporary viewpoint on the misconceptions and whitewashing of the California Missions and how these misconceptions are perpetrated through current curriculum and textbooks on the topic.
Spanish Resources
Las Misiones de California A summary of the CA missions circa 1760´s thru 1820´s