Map of the California Missions

http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~stephan/anthony/missions.html

Rating: 3, Medium.

Description: This animated maps shows the order in which the California Missions were built. Standard 3.2.4, 4.2.1, 4.2.4 and 4.2.5

Comments: This is a useful map and the animation makes it interesting.

Resource Type: Maps.

Graphics content: High.

Resource ID: 2063

Mission Report: San Buenaventura

http://www.tsoft.net/~cmi/Buenaventura.rpt.html

Rating: 3, Medium.

Description: This is a s short, student developed information sheet on the Ventura mission. It includes photos. Standard 3.3.1 and 4.2.3

Comments: This site has good information about the San Buenaventura Mission. It would be helpful for a report.

Resource Type: Mix of Text and Graphics.

Graphics content: High.

Resource ID: 2176

The Past in California's Landscape

http://www.ca-missions.org/hornbeck.html

Rating: 3, Medium.

Description: This article by David Hornbeck describes the history of California as being as real and important as that of the eastern U.S. "Long before settlement of Jamestown in 1607, Spanish explorers had sailed the California coast and recorded its grace and elegance." "The Spanish and Mexican influence on the California landscape was not eradicated upon arrival of the Anglo settler...The newcomer had to accommodate within his frontier settlement scheme an already established legacy of the early Spanish settlers." Standard 4.2 and 4.3

Resource Type: Secondary Text.

Graphics content: Low.

Resource ID: 3060