California Missions | California Mission Research Report

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.

1 PDF file.