Lands of our Ancestors Teacher Guides
The Lands of our Ancestors books and teacher guides offer educators an instructional package that meets California State History-Social Science Standards and provides an appropriate alternative for teaching the state history. This includes units on the pre-contact California Native period, the Spanish Mission Period, Mexican Rancho Era, the Gold Rush and Early Statehood. The guides were designed and developed by experienced California elementary school educators and include 1) Historical overviews of each period, 2) Collection of images depicting the era, 3) Words to Know each chapter, 4) Chapter Questions and 5) Student Projects. A teacher had this to say about the books and guides: “The books and teacher guides are an exemplary resource for the classroom. The stories are engaging and entice students to further research the historical periods, including the treatment of California Indians. The guides provide us with historical context for the books as well as visual examples of housing, maps, etc.”
- Mimi Ryan, Bob Holcomb Elementary, San Bernardino City U.S.D.
COMBINED TEACHER'S GUIDE
This fourth grade California teacher guide combines the three existing guides that accompany the Lands of our Ancestors historical novel series into one easy to use booklet. If a teacher is using all three novels in the classroom, this combined guide provides the least expensive way to obtain chapter questions and answers, words to know, overviews of the historical periods, and student projects.
