Name: California Missions – Research Report Resource
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A California mission research report has students investigate one mission of their choosing across a sequence of guided prompts: its early history and founding, the materials used to build it, the duties of Junipero Serra and the missionaries, everyday mission life, agriculture and industry, the roles and treatment of Native Americans, and how the site compares to how it looks today. Two vocabulary pages ask students to define and illustrate mission-specific terms such as mission, convert, missionaries, territory, ranches, communities, agriculture, and adobe. Illustration and collage pages let students draw or assemble images of their chosen mission, and the packet closes with a resources/bibliography section, an editing checklist, and a 100-point rubric, mirroring the structure of the publisher's other city and state research-report templates.

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Engage your students with this fun and comprehensive California Missions Research Report resource. It helps make report writing easy! It contains vocabulary, worksheets, questions, organizers, tools and forms to use for your students to create, develop, write, edit, illustrate, present, and assess your students’ California Missions Research Report.

This template can be for their formal report or utilized as a study guide to develop their report for them to type or write on their own. This packet is designed for you to pick and choose the parts of the report that you’d like to use, or just use it all!

The first part of this report is question about missions and mission life in general, and another part is for students to choose one mission and research it. We encourage you to have your students use a wide variety of resources to gather the necessary information to complete this report. This packet contains the following:

• Template includes: Questions about the establishment of missions,

missionaries, and mission life

• Vocabulary words to be defined and illustrations created to accompany them (a

blank template is also provided for you to add any additional vocabulary words

that you would like to add to provided scaffolding for students who need it)

• Page 12 starts the individual mission that each student can choose to research.

We have included a new title page for each person to use to write in their

individual mission.

• Specific Questions about the individual mission that each student chooses to

research

• A page to have your students create an illustration as well as an artistic collage

of their mission

• A page to help your students find information for their report

• Resource page and Bibliography Template- I use the Resource Page template

because my students are not ready to learn the rules of a true bibliography, but

if you teach bibliography skills I have included a template for you

• Note Taking page for students to take notes and a note taking page in bullet

format. Copy as needed

• Rubrics- Performance Task for the Written Report, PowerPoint, Project, and Oral

Reports

• Mission Report Checklist for students to check if all performance tasks are

completed and included

• Editing and Revising Checklist

• Common Core Standards page that can be hung near the student reports on a

bulletin board to cite the Common Core Writing Standard being taught

• Teacher Ideas.

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

Students will research and record the founding history, purpose, and daily life of a self-selected California mission.
Students will define and illustrate mission-related vocabulary, including mission, missionaries, territory, and adobe.
Students will compare the mission's early history to its present-day condition.
Students will cite at least one source used in their research on a resources/bibliography page.

Teaching tips

The teacher-ideas pages note the report was built for a range of grades and writing abilities, with guidance to remove any pages that don't fit a given class.
Two note-taking formats are included so students can choose how they record research before writing full answers.
The vocabulary pages ask students to illustrate each term, which can double as a quick comprehension check before the written prompts.
The bibliography template is left blank so a teacher can decide which citation format to teach or to omit it for younger writers.

Skills covered

Historical research writing — students answer a sequence of prompts to build an organized report on a specific California mission.
Content vocabulary acquisition — students define and illustrate terms such as missionaries, territory, and adobe tied directly to mission life.
Compare-and-contrast writing — students describe how their chosen mission has changed between its founding and today.
Source citation — students record research sources using worked book, encyclopedia, magazine, and internet examples.

Good to know

Questions teachers ask about this resource

Does the packet cover the Native Americans' experience during the mission period, or only the missionaries' side?

Both. One prompt directly asks how Native Americans who lived there felt when missionaries arrived and how their lives changed, alongside separate prompts on missionary duties and roles.

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Curriculum

Standards, concepts & topics

Standards

CCSS.W.4.2 — Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly. a. Introduce a topic clearly and group related information in paragraphs and sections; include formatting (e.g., headings), illustrations, and multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension. b. Develop the topic with facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples related to the topic. c. Link ideas within categories of information using words and phrases (e.g., another, for example, also, because). d. Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to inform about or explain the topic. e. Provide a concluding statement or section related to the information or explanation presented.