Modern Era Project

Burnt Ranch Schools third and fourth graders worked 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.

For the second project the students researched Gold Rush artifacts. They again took digital photos of their project. Each student researched the artifact using the internet, written, and oral resources.

For the third and final projects students took digital photos of the Modern Era period. Students researched artifacts using the internet, written, and oral resources. They also did a webbing of their project using Inspiration software.

Students chose to learn more about the following books:

Others chose to learn about the legendary Bigfoot, including:

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