California State Educational Tours

Through our California State Educational Tours, students will be able to:

• • demonstrate an understanding of the physical and human geographic features that define places and regions in California.
  • describe the social, political, cultural, and economic life and interactions among people of California from pre-Columbian societies to the Mexican rancho periods.
  • describe the economic, social, and political life of California including the Bear Flag Revolt, the Gold Rush, and granting of statehood.
  • explain how California has become an agricultural and industrial power since the 1850's.
    Students understand the structures, functions, and powers of the local, state, and federal governments as described in the U.S. Constitution.
  • study how living organisms depend on one another and their environment for survival.
  • learn various properties of rocks and minerals and the processes that formed them.
  • study plate tectonics and the importance it has in shaping our geography and geology.
  • learn the ever-changing topography of California due to weathering of rock, transportation of sediment, and coastal dynamics.
  • experience the diversity of an ecosystem and the balance required to maintain it.
  • discover that the solar system consists of planets and other bodies that orbit the sun in predictable paths.