Learning Goals
Students will be able to formulate investigable questions about movement to California missions and the effects on Indigenous communities and newcomers.
Students will be able to analyze artifact replicas, historic images, and route maps from the California mission era to identify what they show about migration and daily life.
Students will be able to investigate how mission-era movement changed the lives of Indigenous communities and newcomers using short research notes and source comparisons.
Students will be able to compare multiple perspectives on California missions, including Indigenous perspectives and newcomer perspectives, to identify agreements, differences, and missing voices.
Students will be able to document evidence from sources and explain how each source helps answer the guiding question about mission-era migration.
Students will be able to justify conclusions about how movement to California missions changed daily life by connecting evidence from maps, artifacts, images, and oral guidance from a local tribal cultural center educator.
Students will be able to evaluate limitations in their investigation by naming what their sources did and did not show about Indigenous communities and newcomers.
Products
Mission Investigation Research Notebook
Each student creates a research notebook that records question development, source notes, evidence, and personal analysis about how movement to the California missions affected Indigenous communities and newcomers. The notebook shows the student's own thinking before the team synthesizes findings.
Mission Stories Mini-Museum Exhibit and Oral Briefing
Teams create a mini-museum exhibit with labeled artifacts or drawings, a route map, evidence captions, and a short oral briefing for Museum Night. The exhibit must synthesize individual research into one shared claim, explain limitations, and include at least one area of disagreement or uncertainty.
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