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By promoting geographic literacy, the California Geographic Alliance educates, empowers, and inspires all Californians to appreciate their unique place in a diverse world, engage with a global economy, and care for the planet’s resources.

 

 


 


Presentations

Intro to Geography

Atlas Lesson Plans

California Atlas: Where I Live

Writing Activities

Literature Connections

A Geographic History of California's Water System: Part 1- Watersheds

Atlas Exploration: Adult Scavenger Hunt

Atlas Exploration: Student Scavenger Hunt

Where Are California's Commodities Produced?

California Native Americans & Their Physical Environment (pg 1)

California Native Americans & Their Physical Environments Matrix (pg 2)

California Gold Rush

Attachments for CA Gold Rush

Oral Interview Question/Answer Sheet

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Atlas Pages

1-3 Cover, Icons, & Table of Contents

4-5 California & The World

6 What is a Map/How Cartographers Use Symbols

7 Map Scale/Using Scale Bars

8 Making a Globe Become a Map/Map Projections

9 Latitude & Longitude Lines

10 Types of Maps

11 Earthquakes & Fault Zones

12 Physical Geography

13 Land Cover

14 North American Watersheds

15 Physiographic Regions

16 Minimum January Temperatures

17 Maximum July Temperatures

18 Climographs/Cross Sections

19 Annual Precipitation

20 Native Americans of 1770

21 Native American Lands Today

22 Spanish Missions

23 California Missions

24 Exploration & Early Settlement

25 Mexican Land Grants

26 Gold Rush Routes

27 The Gold Rush

28 Territorial Evolution of California

29 California Counties

30 Railroad Development

31 Federal Lands

32 Native American Trade Routes

33 Major Highways

34 Hydrology Before Human Settlements

35 Water Storage & Transport

36 Water Resources

37 Urban Transfer & Irrigated Lands

38 Urband & Agricultural Lands

39 Agricultural Products

40 Agricultural Exports

41 California & the World: Leading Export Markets 2009

42 Immigration

43 Population Diversity

44 Population Density

45 County Population Change Since 1860

46-47 California Cities & Towns

48-49 Animal Migration

50 Public Colleges & Universities

51-52 Glossary & Credits

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