Created via the Oswego City School District site before it was updated, the following games correspond to the vocabulary presented in the fourth grade Harcourt Reflections (California edition) textbook. We typically make it to Chapter Six by the end of the year, so I created review for Chapters One through Six. As there is no longer a way to create more games, I can not extend the reviews to the remaining chapters. If you also use this textbook, please use the review with your students!
CA’s Location/Regions of CA
(Ch. 1: Lessons 1-2)
Climate/Vegetation, etc.
(Ch 1: Lessons 3-4)
Life in CA
(Ch. 1: Lesson 5)
First CA’s/North Coast Region
(Ch. 2: Lessons 1-2)
S. Coast/Cent. Valley/Desert Tribes
(Ch. 2: Lesson 3-5)
Explorers/Newcomers
(Ch. 3: Lessons 1-2)
Settlements/Missions
(Ch. 3: Lessons 3-4)
Mex Freedom/Econ/Rancho Life
(Ch. 4: Lessons 1-3)
Move West/Trails to CA
(Ch. 5: Lessons 1-2)
Amer in CA/Mex-Am War
(Ch. 5: Lessons 3-4)
The Gold Rush/Effects of GR
(Ch. 6: Lessons 1-2)
CA Becomes a State
(Ch. 6: Lesson 3)
Thanks for doing this. Great idea! By any chance do you have a list of the key vocabulary you used in word format. If so, we would love to see it as we are trying to develop key academic vocab lists by grade level.
No, I do not. Most of the words used above came from the essential vocabulary lists at the front of each lesson in the textbook.