California State Seal

What do the ships on the seal stand for?

• The Spanish that first came to California

• The Explorers that first explore California

• The importance of trade in California's economy

• The miners that took the sea routes to get to California

Eureka means...

• Passengers are arriving at the harbor

• Passengers are departing the harbor

• I have found it

• I lost it

What symbolizes California's many farms?

• The bear

• The valley region

• The mountains

• The grain and grape vines

Why is there a grizzly bear on the seal?

• Gold miners had to know how to protect themselves from the bears

• It was the state animal

• At the time, there were more bears than people in all of California

• People in California use to keep them as pets.

There are ____ stars on the seal, they represent ______.

• 49, the forty-niners

• 4, fourth graders

• 31, California being the 31st state

• 13, the original 13 colonies

Minerva is on the seal because like California...

• She was born an adult the way California became a state quickly

• She had no laws just like there was no laws in California

• She was looking for gold, the same way gold seekers coming to California were

• She liked the valley region of California