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.
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.
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.
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.
Add to that privileged access to a companion website
with an extensive listing of books, teaching aids, resources, fields
trips, and events, Come!
Explore Colorado is
everything you need to teach an exciting and adventurous year
of
Colorado
history!
The seven units described below come in a 3-ring binder notebook
with dividers.
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unit includes studies and further reading for both you and
your children on:
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unit includes studies and further reading for both you and
your children on:
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unit includes studies and further reading for both you and
your children on:
This unit includes studies and further reading for both you and
your children on the gold and silver
rush:
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unit includes studies and further reading for both you and
your children on:
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unit includes studies and further reading for both you and
your children on: