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4th Grade, Research and Inquiry Activities

1. Connect to http://www.suzy.co.nz/SuzysWorld/Factpage.asp?FactSheet=96.

2. Read Facts and Did You Know?. Answer the questions in the spaces below.
a. Where do you find gold?

b. What is panning?

c. What is a nugget?

d. What is Fool’s Gold?

3. On a separate sheet of paper, write a journal entry about what you think life was like for a miner during the Gold Rush.

For a virtual tour about the Gold Rush, go to http://www.museumca.org/goldrush/.

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4th Grade, Research and Inquiry Activities