Discover Colorado

A new 3rd & 4th grade textbook, Discover Colorado traces the state’s history from the time of the Paleo-Indians through the building of Denver International Airport. Discover Colorado meets all the new Colorado Content Standards.

Discover Colorado / Descubre Colorado

Its People, Places, and Times

By Matthew Downey & Ty Bliss

Discover Colorado meets the new Colorado Content standards. Download a detailed pdf here. Download PDF

Discover Colorado traces the state’s history from the time of the Paleo-Indians through the building of Denver International Airport.

Revealing Colorado’s past as the result of different cultural contributions, Discover Colorado focuses on three: Native American, Spanish-American, and Anglo-American.

A Social Studies Textbook for Third and Fourth Grades

With more than 150 photos, maps, timelines and drawings, Discover Colorado involves the student with active, colorful pages. Organized in six units of two chapters each, Discover Colorado highlights specially designed features in each chapter that will increase reading comprehension and understanding.

Discover Colorado and Colorado’s new content standards
Author Matt Downey says, ”The content of Discover Colorado is aligned with the grade level expectations for Grade 4 in the new History Standards. While exploring familiar topics of Colorado history, the book is grounded in such standards-based concepts as chronology, cause and effect, historical eras, and the interactions among people and cultures. The book and the Teacher’s Guide also address the grade-level expectations in the new standards for Reading, Writing, and Communicating, with reading comprehension strategies embedded in each chapter of the textbook. The newly revised Teacher’s Guide includes activities that use primary sources to engage students in historical thinking.”

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1 Regions of Colorado
Chapter 2 Colorado Life Zones
Chapter 3 Early Hunters of Colorado
Chapter 4 Basketmakers and Pueblo Dwellers
Chapter 5 The Ute Indians
Chapter 6 The Plains Indians
Chapter 7 Pathfinders
Chapter 8 Hispanic Settlers
Chapter 9 Gold and Silver Miners
Chapter 10 Farmers and Ranchers
Chapter 11 Changing Times 1890-1941
Chapter 12 Recent Times 1941-2008

Supports Colorado Content Standards in history, geography,reading and writing
Comprehensive
Extended activities
Emphasizes non-fiction readingand writing instruction
Helps struggling readers by incorporating reading comprehension strategies in each chapter
Includes a variety of individual, partner, and group activities in each chapter to facilitate reading comprehension for all student

TEACHERS: Check out our Discover Colorado Blog, a place to share ideas, ask questions

The Authors

Matthew Downey is a Professor of History at the University of Northern Colorado. He also directs UNC’s Hewit Institute for History and Social Science Education, where he helped create the Doing History/Keeping the Past Project. Professor Downey has written several textbooks, as well as numerous articles and books about history education.

Ty Bliss has taught for over twenty years in Colorado public schools, many as a fourth grade teacher for the St. Vrain Valley School District. She was a teacher consultant for the Doing History/Keeping the Past Project, and helped present workshops throughout the state to promote Colorado history education through the use of the Project materials. Ms. Bliss also has been a teacher consultant for the Colorado Geographic Alliance and a teacher facilitator for Project Wild, Project Wet, and Project Learning Tree.

8.5″ X 11 ”
Hardcover
210 pages $35.00 net price

Student Edition 087108-292-6 $35.00
Teacher’s Guide 087108-293-4 $50.00
Spanish Student Edition 087 108-294-2 $35.00
Spanish Ed. Teacher’s Guide 087 108-295-0 $50.00

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CONTACT INFORMATION
for Discover Colorado:

Pruett Publishing Co
PO Box 2140
Boulder, CO 80306
303 449 4919 * 303 443 9019 (fax)
jim at pruettpublishing.com

Discover Colorado