Blog or Wiki Address: http://courtwilcox.blogspot.com/2012/05/daily-lives-in-mission.html
Subject Matter: Social Studies
Grade Level: 4
Lesson Objective: Learners will demonstrate their knowledge of the daily lives of native and non native people that inhabited California's Spanish Missions through the use of primary sources and other websites that provide information relating to the daily life of a missionary.
Subject Matter Content Standard: California: A Changing State
among people of California from the pre-Columbian societies to the Spanish
mission and Mexican rancho periods.
4.2.5 Describe the daily lives of the people, native and nonnative, who occupied the presidios,
missions, ranchos, and pueblos.
Background: You will become investigators by participating in the scavenger hunt to find out what the daily lives of people living in the missions were like. You will then make a poster with graphics and facts about life at the missions. There are many aspects and qualities about mission life that can be found. I.E. daily schedule, church traditions, living situations, foods they ate, hobbies, jobs, school, rules and etc.
Use the following websites to research and discover what a daily life at a mission is like:
- http://library.thinkquest.org/3615/people.html -The people of the missions- This website talks about the lives of many different people living in the mission. For example, a child your age or an older man.
- http://www.missionscalifornia.com/faq/daily-life-food-missions.html-0 - Ask the Experts- this provides great information on the daily lives and food that that was at the missions.
- http://www.mtycounty.com/pgs-missions/13la-puris-pg2.html - Living Quarters- This will help you get a great idea of what mission homes were like.
- http://www.pics4learning.com/?view=sub&cat=Missions - Pics For Learning- this will give you a wide variety of pictures of the missions, and help get an idea of the structure and design of the missions.
Essential Question:
What are some of the key aspects of daily life at a mission?
Additional Questions:
- What kind of food did the missions have?
- What was a daily schedule like for a child your age?
- What was a daily schedule like for an older man?
- What was a daily schedule like for an older woman?
- What kind of jobs did the missions have?
- Did the people of the missions attend church frequently?
- What were the homes in a mission like?
- What sort of rules were in place at the missions?
- Did the young children go to school?
- What was there to do for fun in the missions?
