Students Create History
QUICK CHECK ANSWERS:
1. Honoring one of California's resources by naming 	
the San Joaquin soil Series the official state soil.	
2. Runoff of swollen streams.
3. Any 5: Arkansas, Florida, Kansas, Kentucky, Mas	-	
sachusetts, Michigan, Oklahoma, Oregon, Nebraska, 
South Dakota, Vermont, Wisconsin.	
4. a) Soil was just dirt.  
 b) One of our vital resources.
5. a) 1,000 samples.  
 b) Texture, critter count, filtration rate.  
 c) San Joaquin Soil Series is the most common form 	
of soil found in California.	
6. How to turn an idea for official state soil into legis	-	
lative bill and eventually into a California law.	
7. a) Social studies classes: lawmaking process dis	-	
cussed.	
 b) English classes: rough-draft bills and poems 	
about the soil written.	
 c) Science and art classes: displays for the soil sci	-	
ence fair were completed.	
  d) Music classes: official state San Joaquin soil song 	
written.	
8. Senator Dick Monteith of Modesto.
9. Because of a political squabble.
10. a) Tried again by going to Sacramento and talking to 	
other senators in person.	
 b) Yes.
11. January 1, 1998.
12. Tell me, and I will forget.  Show me, and I may not 	
remember.  Involve me, and I'll understand.	
13. a) The Golden State.  
 b) Blue and gold.  
 c) Gold.  
 d) California Gray Whale.  
 e) Serpentine.  
 f) Grizzly Bear.  	
 g) Golden Trout.  
 h) Dog-Faced Butterfly. 
 i) Redwood.  
 j) Saber-toothed cat.  
 k) Square dance.  
 l) San Joaquin Soil.
14. a) Student's opinion.
 b) Student's idea for California bill and law.