2. Explain how the Gold Rush transformed the economy of California, including the types of products produced and consumed, changes in towns (e.g., Sacramento, San Francisco), and economic conflicts between diverse groups of people.||CA History/Social Science||Grade 4||California: A Changing State||4.4 Students explain how California became an agricultural and industrial power, tracing the transformation of the California economy and its political and cultural development since the 1850s.|||3. Analyze the effects of the Gold Rush on settlements, daily life, politics, and the physical environment (e.g., using biographies of John Sutter, Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, Louise Clapp).||CA History/Social Science||Grade 4||California: A Changing State||4.3 Students explain the economic, social, and political life in California from the establishment of the Bear Flag Republic through the Mexican-American War, the Gold Rush, and the granting of statehood.|||4. The properties of rocks and minerals reflect the processes that formed them.||CA Science||Grade 4||03. Earth Sciences|||8. 8 Students analyze the divergent paths of the American people in the West from 1800 to the mid-1800s and the challenges they faced.||CA History/Social Science||Grade 8||United States History and Geography: Growth and Conflict|||8. All objects experience a buoyant force when immersed in a fluid.||CA Science||Grade 8||01. Physical Sciences||8. Density and Buoyancy|||8.a. Density is mass per unit volume.||Grade 8||01. Physical Sciences||8. Density and Buoyancy||8. All objects experience a buoyant force when immersed in a fluid.|||8.c. The buoyant force on an object in a fluid is an upward force equal to the weight of the fluid it has displaced.||Grade 8||01. Physical Sciences||8. Density and Buoyancy||8. All objects experience a buoyant force when immersed in a fluid.