California Missions

California Mission Resources

For Kids

• Formation of the California Missions Animated map showing where and when the missions were built.
• The Spanish Missions of California from "ThinkQuest". This student project has lots of information presented clearly for fourth graders. Check out The People of the Missions. Here you'll find out what it was like for all those who lived at and around the missions.
• Annie's Mission: An Interactive Historical Adventure You are there! This simulation places you in the role of a 10 year old who travels by ship to Southern California in 1817. You will have many adventures...
• The California Missions On-line Project Study these pages and then take the QUIZ! Can you get to the third level?
• California Mission Internet Trail from the Escondido School District.
• Early California History from the Library of Congress.
• Projects By and For Young Scholars from the California Missions Study Association (CMSA).
• Your Mission: The Last Mission

For Kids, Teachers, and Parents

• The California Missions Site See photos of all 21 missions, hear music, and much more.
• Mission Santa Inés
• San Juan Batista from the California Department of Parks.
• Misión San Francisco De Asis (Mission Dolores)
• California Mission Studies Association
• Annotated Links to California Missions Web Sites from the CMSA. You'll find information about ranchos and pueblos here.
• Index to California Missions Information Links to information about each mission, plus information about books useful for the 4th grade California Mission project.

Virtual Tours of Missions and their Environs

• Touring a California Mission Virtual tour of a typical Mission modeled after Mission San Juan Capistrano
• Virtual Reality Panoramas of the California Missions