Each of the following primary source sets includes up to ten sources with teacher and student context, teacher background information, and a student literacy exercise. Each is Framework-aligned and incorporates California's Environmental Principles and Concepts:

1.2 – What is my community like?

1.6 – Costs and Consequences

2.2- Why do people move

2.4 – Farm to Table

3.1 – Why did people settle in California?

3.2 – Native California communities

4.1 – California’s natural regions

4.2 – Missions and the Environment/Economy

4.3 - Impact of the Gold Rush

4.4 – California and Water

5.8 – Westward Expansion

6.1 - Language & Migration

6.2 - Mesopotamia, Kush and Egypt

6.3 - Jewish Holidays

6.4 - Hellenistic Culture

6.5 - Maurya Connections

6.6 - Silk Roads

7.7 - Tenochtitlan

10.3 - Cholera

10.6 - Middle East Maps

10.9 - Cuban Missile Crisis

10.10 - Sea Level Rise Tuvalu

10.11 - Maquiladoras

11.1 – Reconstruction’s Impact on the Country

11.6 - Great Depression

11.11 – Contemporary Issues

12.3 AD – Dangers of the Majority 

12.10 AD – Rights and responsibilities related to climate change

12.1 Econ – How are resources allocated?

12.3 Econ – Government influence on the economy