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Tour Colorado | |
(Grades 3 - 4)
Activity List
The following is a list of activities designed to provide teachers with a comprehensive, standards-aligned, literacy & technology-driven curriculum for this unit. Feel free to add your own elements, delete activities, or modify the unit to work best for you and your students.
Intended Learning
Tour Colorado is designed to give students a self-directed research adventure with reading, writing and technology authentically interlaced in Colorado History.
- students will effectively and authentically use a scaffolded approach to Internet research to gain information;
- students will summarize information;
- students will improve searching techniques by determining and using keywords;
- students will read with purpose;
- students will write summaries with personal perspective
Unit Activities
- Set-up the
project with student
- Introduce the project
- Review Tour Colorado PowerPoint template
- Show teacher-made sample
- Learn how to cite websites.
- Work time for students to journey and delve into Colorado history!
All the lessons in this unit are designed to
provide you with content and strategies to implement the activities. Please
feel free to use your professional discretion as to sequence and content.