Mini-Qs in California and American History for 4th and 5th grade: Teacher Resource Binder

Twelve High-Interest Units of Study

Mini-Q Topics for 4th Grade

• Confined and Controlled: How Did California’s Mission Indians Resist?
• The California Gold Rush: A Personal Journal
• How Did the Transcontinental Railroad Change California?
• Photographing Dust Bowl Migration and Japanese Internment: What Is Dorothea Lange Saying?
• What Was the Primary Consequence of Building the Los Angeles Aqueduct?
• Walt Disney or Steve Jobs: Who Should Be the Face of California?

Mini-Q Topics for 5th Grade

• Why Did Isabella and Ferdinand Sponsor Columbus in 1492?
• April 27, 1521: Was Magellan Worth Defending?
• Jamestown: Why Did So Many Colonists Die?
• Money or Power: What was the Main Reason for the Boston Tea Party?
• The Oregon Trail: Go or Stay Put?
• What Types of Citizen Does a Democracy Need?