Have you ever seen an old photograph and wished you could visit the place and see what it was like 100-200 years ago? Better yet, how about saving certain historic areas so that people can visit it and learn about the past in an exciting and interesting format!
Rush Ranch was started during the late Gold Rush period by Hiram Rush and his family. The ranch has been preserved, or saved from destruction, by the Solano Open Space Foundation, who manages it for public use.
I asked my class why the preservation of the Rush Ranch area was important to the following groups:
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The Rush Family and Rush Ranch over the last 6,000
years
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| Grizzle Road VR #1, VR #2 and Entrance |
VR's of the center
of Rush Ranch and Kit House
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My students have prepared their research and answers on this web site. We used text books, history books, digital pictures, QuickTime VR, movie clips (i-Movie), primary source documents, interviews with experts, newspaper archives, the local historical societies, and local historians to put this project together.
We worked with high school students in Mr. Keisling's Women In Technology (WIT) program. They are from Armijo High School! They filmed us with special cameras and helped to take QuickTime VR movies. High school students from Fairfield High School have helped to make object rotations of animal skulls from the Suisun Wildlife Center. Kathy Link is their technology teacher. Both high schools have gone to UC Berkeley to work with Don Bain, of the Department of Geography, to learn QTVR techniques.
Many thanks to the following groups!