Our mission is to assist you and your children discover Colorado and its rich history. Our goal is to be your primary Colorado resource!

• Curriculum: Parents and educators searching for a creative way to teach Colorado history—and kids looking for some adventure—have a fun new option. Come! Explore Colorado offers detailed lesson plans for seven units of action-packed learning.
  
  The first unit, Colorado geography, sets the pace for serious exploration— fossils, rocks, caves, mountains, mesas, rivers, canyons, and hot springs among many other things. Units on Indians native to Colorado, explorers, mountain men, and the gold and silver rush follow. Unit six covers Colorado’s statehood, including railroads, settlers and settlements, and cowboys. The final unit, the 20th century, brings the course to an end by challenging children to see how much the state has changed in the past 100 years. Click here to find out more...


• Field Trips: While this innovative curriculum brings together reading, writing, history, science, art, and Bible teaching, the most effective instruction takes place outside the classroom. Colorado’s museums, mines, monuments, caves, rivers, canyons—and of course its mountains—are at the center of each instructional unit. Children will see and experience their state in new ways as they learn about its rich history.


• Books & Products: Come! Explore Colorado is designed for fourth-grade students but is flexible enough to be used simultaneously with siblings or other children of any grade. The material can be used over the course of a year—focusing on a chapter a month—or condensed into one action-packed summer. Another option is to spread the units out across several months or summers. Teachers and students have the freedom to go at their own pace.
  
  Through books available at your library, your children will travel back in time and find that history can be exciting when experienced through the lives of real people. These historical novels will capture their imagination and help them grasp what life was like in the early years of Colorado.


• Website: This website partners with and completes the curriculum in offering a broad range of resources, on-line products, field trip destinations, and calendar of events from around the state.

So Come! Explore Colorado with us! Everything you need is here to teach an exciting and adventure-filled year of Colorado history!

If you have any questions or comments, please don't hesitate to contact us. We love hearing from you!

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Combine imagination, adventure, and discovery;
your children will expand their horizons, learn about life,
and interpret the world in which they live.

About Lynn Wiseman: Creator and author Lynn Wiseman developed the Come! Explore Colorado program out of her travel and educational experiences with her own children. As a certified tour guide and Colorado native who spent 12 years homeschooling her three children, Wiseman’s love of children, learning, history, adventure, and Colorado seep into every lesson plan and recommendation.