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Grade Level 4

History and Social Studies:

4.1.5 Use maps, charts, and pictures to describe how communities in California vary in land use, vegetation, wildlife, climate, population density, architecture, services, and transportation. (Link #1)

Literature and Language Arts:

• Write a narrative essay describing a train trip through the state of California and the agriculture seen along the way and:

• Relate ideas, observations, or recollections of an event or experience.

• Provide a context to enable the reader to imagine the world of the event or experience.

• Use concrete sensory details.

• Provide insight into why the selected event or experience is memorable

• 1.4 Write fluidly and legibly in cursive or joined italic.

 

Critical thinking
Cause and effect
Expository critique
Making inference
Visual analysis
Research
September 5, 2006

Introduction
Background for the Teacher
Guiding Questions
Learning Opportunities
Assessment
Guided Discussion Questions
Instructional Plan
Materials Needed
Groupings
Checking for Student Understanding
Guided Practice
Independent Practice
Closure
Extention
English Learners
G.A.T.E. Students

Links
Writing Prompt (blackline master) | Word
Paragraph Writing Rubric | Word
Pre/post test (blackline master) | Word
Test Answers | Word
Vocabulary review | Word
PowerPoint Mission Inn Artifact | PPT (Large file - Save to hard-drive before opening.)
Reference List | Word
History of Citrus in Riverside | Word
Map of California Template | Word
Directions for map | Word
California Agricultural Fact Sheet | Word

Mission Inn website
Riverside history
UCR citrus history
Citrus history in Riverside
Citrus Park
United States Department of Agriculture
Where does it come from? Lesson plan National Agricultural Statistics Service
Great interactive map showing California crops and ranches
California Foundation for Agriculture in the Classroom - lesson plans
Farm Industry News
Another excellent interactive map that shows agricultural sites in California

April 27, 2007
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Citrus Lesson Plan | 4th Grade Level
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4th Grade Citrus – Pre/Post Test
   
1. Who is credited with starting the citrus industry in Riverside after receiving two orange trees?
a. Eliza Tibbets
b. Eleanor Roosevelt
c. Eleanor Magnolia
d. Eliza Doolittle
   
2. What is the name of the new type of orange that was sweeter, easier to peel, and without seeds?
a. Valencia
b. Sweet and Juicy
c. Navel
d. Sunkist
   
3. What is the definition of citrus?
a. Fruit that can be peeled
b. Seedless fruit
c. A type of land used for farming
d. Citrus is any small tree that includes the lemon, lime, orange, tangerine, grapefruit
   
4. What is the definition of agriculture?
a. Selling oranges
b. Farming
c. Buying land
d. Inventing farm tools
   
5. What is the definition of a crop?
a. Smudge pot
  b. Irrigation tool
  c. Agricultural product
  d. A Fair to celebrate farming
   
6. Define climate
  a. Land used for farming
  b. Weather
  c. Soil conditions
  d. Type of orange
   
7. All of the following inventions were a result of the citrus industry, except for…
  a. Tree trimmers
  b. Irrigation equipment
  c. Smudge pots
  d. Refrigerated railroad cars
   
8. The first orange trees were introduced in California by…
  a. Christopher Columbus
  b. Frank Miller
  c. Eliza Tibbets
  d. Spanish missionaries
   
9. The time of enormous growth and money to be made from the citrus industry was called…
  a. Orange Exposition
  b. Second Gold Rush
  c. Citrus Expansion
  d. Riverside Citrus
   
10. Riverside’s first navel tree was planted at the Mission Inn by which United States president?
  a. George W. Bush
  b. Ronald Reagan
  c. Theodore Roosevelt
  d. Richard Nixon
   
 
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