Gold Rush Project:
For their study of the Gold Rush the class did a "living history" reenactment of Sam Brannan running through the streets of San Francisco shouting "Gold, Gold from the American River!" by going through the school and announcing the discovery of gold in our very own Dirt Mountain. Over subsequent weeks as the class learned about different aspects of the Gold Rush, they would share what they learned with the different age groups of the school from telling the story of the Argonauts to teaching how to pan for gold in the sand. The project culminated in two ways. At the school the group performed the musical "Gold Dust or Bust!" for students and parents. Then the next week a field trip was taken to the actual Sutter’s Mill on the way to Cool Camp where they studied about the geology of gold and the Sierra Nevada batholith.