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Class Project: The Making of a Mission

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Woman and children crouch in a circle on the ground as they work adobe with their hands. Caption. Of their adobe brick ingredients.

California's 21 historical missions provide the focus for two art projects. Boy scouts make adobe brick by hand and learn that it's very hard work. An elementary class uses a variety of materials for their creative models of the missions. Includes information about a mission's basic form, purpose, and impact on the area. Recommends viewers to try both projects.

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Runtime: 7 minutes 40 seconds

Topic: Arts, Education, History
Subtopic: Art Education, Arts, U.S. History (General)
Grade/Interest Level: 3 - 5
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Release Year: 1998
Producer/Distributor: Chip Taylor Communications
Series: The Missions Of California
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Color illustration of a green fountain with colorful mission style buildings in the background. Caption. That is very much alive in California today.

Woman and children crouch in a circle on the ground as they work adobe with their hands. Caption. Of their adobe brick ingredients.

Closeup of a stone archway topped with a cross. A weathered stone wall looms in the background. Caption. As the father and founder of California.

Stone ledges stand on both sides of a curved brick wall. Caption. The mission Indians mixed this quicklime with water.

Mission Santa Barbara stands behind a paved plaza with trees and mountains in the background. Caption. Mission Santa Barbara is a noble landmark.

Closeup of the Mission San Diego de Alcala surrounded by trees. Caption. Father Junipero Serra.

Closeup of the bell wall at the Mission San Gabriel Arcangel. Caption. All who and all who hear the ringing of its bells.

Cardboard model of a Spanish mission rests in the grass. Spanish caption. El modelo de July de la tercera misión.

Closeup of the Mission San Diego de Alcala overlaid with a map of California. Gold crosses mark locations along the coast of the map. Spanish caption. La misión San Diego.

Closeup of a fountain in front of the arches of the Mission Santa Barbara. Caption. So soundly was this water system engineered that, remarkably.