Burnt Ranch Schools third and fourth graders are currently working on a year long project with the Willow Creek-China Flat Museum. For the first activity we took a field trip to the museum and took digital photos of historical Native American artifacts to study.

We have now completed our second project researching Gold Rush artifacts. They again took digital photos of their project. Each student researched the artifact using the internet, written, and oral resources.

Some students chose to learn more about the process of collecting gold. Research was completed on the following:

Others chose to learn about protection and hunting, including:

Some students chose to study old bottles, such as:

Several students learned about miscellaneous items of the gold rush era, which included: