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Audiovisual, image, and text material that documents California life during the Autumn season. Content includes images of school during the fall semester, recorded video of California agriculture, and text about autumn festivals. Other material consists of recorded audio of El Dia de los Muertos celebrations and other autumn holidays.

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Seasons: Spring

Audiovisual, image, and text material that documents California life during the Spring season. Content includes recorded video of spring festivals, images of spring activities, and garden books. Other material consists of spring journals and periodicals, like Sacramento City College's, "The Pioneer," and the Slavic newsletter, "The Kalifornski."

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Seasons: Summer

Audiovisual and images material that documents California life during the Summer season. Content includes images of beach vacations and July celebrations, in addition to recorded video of family vacations and summer music festivals, like the Concord Jazz Festival of 1969. Other material consists of recorded audio of Don Ellis performing at Magic Mountain during the summer of 1973.

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Seasons: Winter

Audiovisual, image, and text material that documents California life during the Winter season. Content includes recorded video of winter and Christmas performances, images of winter activities and agriculture, and recorded audio of 1970s Christmas music. Other material consists of home videos of sledding, Christmas gatherings, and other snow scenes.

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Sierra Madre (Calif.)--History, Local

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Teaching California: Class and School Rules

This is one of a series of California Revealed Curated Themes designed to mirror Teaching California's Inquiry Sets. This page builds on the 1.1. Class and School Rules set.

From Teaching California: This first-grade inquiry set provides images from the past to help students address the concept and practice of school rules. These questions guide the inquiry set and the activities that help students make connections between themselves and their classrooms today and in the past: What are class and school rules? How were they developed? Who is responsible for enforcing the rules?

This supplemental set of photographs and films digitized by California Revealed show a variety of school scenes from across California. Among the schools pictured are a log cabin school in Butte County and segregation-era schools for Japanese-American and Mexican-American students in Visali and Loma Linda. Other photographs show students dancing, eating, and painting. Rare films from the Center for Sacramento History of a bilingual school and outdoor school, as well as 1970s film of an Oakland school for children with disabilities and 1950s footage of Livermore schools, lend themselves to discussion of the differences between schools today and in the past.

While some of these materials may be more appropriate for older grade levels than the corresponding Teaching California Inquiry Set, we hope this sampling will be of interest to any California educators looking to incorporate primary source materials into their teaching of state and local history.

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Teaching California: Families and Primary Sources

This is one of a series of California Revealed Curated Themes designed to mirror Teaching California’s Inquiry Sets. This page builds on the 2.1 Families and Primary Sources set.

From Teaching California: This inquiry set is the first time that students are introduced to the vocabulary term and concept of primary sources (in comparison to secondary sources). As the framework text details, primary sources shape students’ own lives, heritages, and family identities, and they can serve as an entry point for students’ broader learning about the richness of source material.

While the Teaching California set incorporates photographs and documents that help to illustrate the ways that families remember their pasts, this corresponding Theme draws upon the wealth of home movies digitized by California Revealed to show some of the different ways that families have documented themselves using amateur motion picture equipment. The home movies collected here span the 20th century and offer a uniquely intimate view of family life.

Teachers might ask students to consider who made these home movies, what kinds of activities they were interested in showing, what these kinds of family documents can tell us about their historical moment, and how home movies have changed with the advent of digital media. While some of these materials may be more appropriate for older grade levels than the corresponding Teaching California Inquiry Set, we hope this sampling will be of interest to any California educators looking to incorporate primary source materials into their teaching of state and local history.

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Teaching California: Why Did People Settle in California?

This is one of a series of California Revealed Curated Themes designed to mirror Teaching California's Inquiry Sets. This page builds on the 3.1. Why Did People Settle in California? set.

From Teaching California: California’s diverse geography, mild climate, and plentiful natural resources have attracted settlers for many thousands of years, and these same features have created opportunities for lucrative work and innovation. The primary sources found here are intended to show students the geographic and economic factors that encouraged settlement and development of the citrus region of Southern California.

Collected here you will find several complementary primary sources focused on California’s citrus industry. Moving image resources include Spanish and English-language films produced by California’s Employment Development Department on harvesting lemons and working on a citrus farm; a promotional film produced by Sunkist; and industrial films demonstrating agricultural equipment. Photographs span the 20th century and include several of Japanese-American farming families. Also included are postcards and pamphlets promoting citrus agriculture as a symbol of prosperity and plenitude.

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Teaching California: Work Long Ago

This is one of a series of California Revealed Curated Themes designed to mirror Teaching California’s Inquiry Sets. This page builds on the K.3 Work Long Ago set.

From Teaching California: This lesson focuses on the topic of work and jobs to illuminate change over time. Kindergartners have some direct experiential knowledge of jobs today, which can be leveraged to learn about the differences and similarities of jobs and work in the past.

This supplemental set of materials digitized by California Revealed spotlights additional kinds of work and workers from all across the state. Images of agricultural, medical, retail, and public sector workers are complemented by documents highlighting aspects of job seeking and job training. While some of these materials may be more appropriate for older grade levels than the corresponding Teaching California Inquiry Set, we hope this sampling will be of interest to any California educators looking to incorporate primary source materials into their teaching of state and local history.

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Wildlife: Fishes

Image, text, and audiovisual material relationg to California fish. Content includes images of native California fish like the Silver Gar, American Shad, and Largemouth Black Bass. Other material consists of moving images about Shad fishing and California's Golden Trout.

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