When I was a classroom teacher, I really enjoyed being able to bring current events into our classroom and integrate them into lesson plans.
Here is one that relates to the Gold Rush in California during the 1800s. A lost shipping vessel was recently found. There are so many great ways to use this story and build upon it in the classroom.
Divers find shipwreck from the Klondike Gold Rush
Archaeologists have located the only known untouched shipwreck from the Klondike Gold Rush, 108 years after the vessel sank. The sternwheeler A.J. Goddard vanished in Lake Laberge in the Yukon on Oct. 22, 1901, killing three of its five crewmen. But a diving team, funded in part by the National Geographic Society, announced this week that it had found the Goddard resting upright in 40 feet of water, relatively intact. “It’s a rare window into the past,” said nautical archaeologist James Delgado, who helped find the wreck. About 30 Gold Rush–era shipwrecks exist in the Yukon region, but most of them have either been salvaged or are in poor condition.
