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 * Unit 1 - Effective Communications and Geography Tools and Physical Characteristics of Colorado
 * ====District Text Materials====
 * //Scholastic, National Geographic, McGraw-Hill//
 * Task 2- __The Colorado Story: Chapter 1: The Land We Call Home__
 * District Science Kit - Land of Colorado: Life Zones
 * __Rendezvous__
 * ====Authentic Short Text====
 * **Performance Task 5** - [[file:Best Places to Live in Colorado2.pdf|"Best Places to Live in Colorado"]]
 * //Time for Kids, Weekly Reader, Boy's Life, Junior Scholastic, Ranger Rick, etc//
 * Task 1 & 3 - //[[file:A Dwindling Colorado River980L.pdf|A Dwindling River]],// Scholastic Super Science - Lexile 980
 * Task 6 - //[[file:Dino Drive Article750L.pdf|Dino Drive]],// Weekly Reader News - Edition 3
 * Task 4 & 6 - //[[file:Doing the DunesNoL.pdf|Doing the Dunes]]//, Boy's Life May 1994
 * Task 4 - //[[file:Grand Time on the Grand MesaNoL.pdf|Grand Time on the Grand Mesa]]//, Boy's Life November 2000
 * Task 2, 4 & 5 - //[[file:ABOUT COLORADO.pdf|Let's Take a Look at Colorado]]// - Lexile 870
 * Task 1, 2, 4 & 6 - //[[file:Mesa Verde 100th810L.pdf|Mesa Verde 100th]]//, Weekly Reader News - Lexile 810
 * Task 1, 2, 4 & 6 - //[[file:Mesa Verde1130L.pdf|Mesa Verde]]// - Lexile 1130
 * Task 6 - //[[file:Shake, Rattle, and RollNoL.pdf|Shake, Rattle and Roll]]//, Boy's Life September 1997
 * ====Videos====
 * [|BrainPop]
 * [|Latitude and Longitude]
 * [|Map Skills]
 * [|Geography Themes]
 * [|BrainPop Jr.]
 * [|Reading Maps]
 * [|Continents and Oceans]
 * [|Discovery Education]
 * "Geographical Features: Landforms"
 * "Geography Basics: Landforms and Living Patterns"
 * "Landforms"
 * "Landforms: Number 1"
 * "Let's Talk Geography: Landforms"
 * Task 1 & 6 - "Boom or Bust: Mining and the Opening of the American West"
 * ====Other Websites and Resources====
 * Task 1 - __Ancient Cliff Dwellers__, Reading A-Z Level V - Lexile 771-830
 * Task 1 - __//The Case of the Vanishing Anasazi//__, Reading A-Z Level 4
 * Task 1 & 2 - [|Colorado Come to Life] - Interactive Map
 * ** Unit 2 - Literacy Text and Foundations of Colorado Cultural Diversity
 * ====District Text Materials====
 * __The Colorado Story Textbook__:
 * Chapter 2 - American Indians
 * Chapter 3 - Explorers and Fur Traders
 * Chapter 4 - Moving West
 * Chapter 5 - A Changing Colorado
 * Chapter 6 - Colorado in the 20th Century
 * "Hard Gold" - __The Colorado Gold Rush of 1859__ - By Avi
 * "The Circuit" - __Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child__ - By Francisco Jimenez
 * "Bent's Fort" - __Crossroads of Cultures on the Santa Fe Trail__ - By Melvin Bacon and Daniel Blegen
 * "I Never Knew that About Colorado" - __A Quaint Volume of Forgotten Love__ - By Abbott Fay
 * "Here Lies Colorado" - __Fascinating Figures in Colorado History__ - By Richard E. Wood
 * "A Kid's Look at Colorado" - By Phyllis J. Perry
 * "Go to the Source" - __Discovering 20th Century US History Through Colorado Documents__
 * ====Authentic Short Text====
 * [[file:tsdcurriculum-instruction/COLORADO SCOUTS EXPLORE THE HILLSIDE HOMES OF ANCIENT INDIANS.pdf|Colorado Scouts Explore the Hillside Homes of Ancient Indians]] - Lexile 700
 * [[file:tsdcurriculum-instruction/Indians of Colorado.pdf|"Indians of Colorado"]] - Lexile 940
 * [[file:tsdcurriculum-instruction/These daring trappers led the way into the American West.pdf|"Article on Trappers of Colorado"]] - Lexile 730
 * [[file:tsdcurriculum-instruction/The Louisiana Purchase.pdf|The Louisiana Purchase]] - Lexile 910
 * [[file:tsdcurriculum-instruction/LEWIS and CLARK.pdf|Lewis and Clark Reach the Pacific]] - Lexile 860
 * [[file:tsdcurriculum-instruction/LEWIS AND CLARK SURVIVED IT ALL.pdf|Lewis and Clark Survived it All]] - Lexile 650
 * [[file:tsdcurriculum-instruction/Hike With Pike.pdf|Hike with Pike]] - Lexile 860
 * ====Videos====
 * [|BrainPop]
 * [|American Indians]
 * [|Lewis and Clark]
 * [|Westward Expansion]
 * [|Gold Rush]
 * [|Railroad History]
 * [|Discovery Education]
 * "American Indians of the Plains"
 * "Anasazi Cliff Sites"
 * "Native American's"
 * "The Fur Trade"
 * "Bent's Fort"
 * "Legendary Mountain Man James Beckworth Enters the Rockies"
 * "Gold Rush"
 * "Boom or Bust"
 * "Homestead Act"
 * [|World Book]
 * [|The West]
 * [|American Indians]
 * ====Other Websites and Resources====
 * [|National Park Service]
 * [|Experience State History]
 * [|History Colorado]
 * [|PBS]
 * The Gold Rush
 * Transcontinental Railroad
 * Surviving The Dustbowl
 * [|You Tube - Sand Creek Massacre parts 1 & 2]
 * [|Dear Miss Breed]
 * [|Dear Mrs. Roosevelt]
 * Unit 3 - Informational Text and Influences on Colorado Development
 * ====District Text Materials====
 * The Colorado Story Textbook:
 * Chapter 1 - The Land We Call Home
 * Chapter 3 - Explorers and Fur Traders
 * Chapter 4 & 5 - A Changing Colorado
 * Chapter 7 - Modern Colorado
 * Chapter 8 - Economics and You
 * Chapter 9 - Government for All of Us
 * ====Authentic Short Text====
 * [|Stopping the Gulf Oil Spill]
 * [[file:tsdcurriculum-instruction/The West.pdf|The West New Water Wars]]
 * [[file:tsdcurriculum-instruction/COLORADO.pdf|Colorado]]
 * [[file:tsdcurriculum-instruction/Do you trash the planet.pdf|Do You Trash the Planet]] - Lexile 700
 * [[file:tsdcurriculum-instruction/TROUBLED WATER.pdf|Troubled Water]] - Lexile 540
 * [[file:tsdcurriculum-instruction/From Here to There.pdf|From Here to There]] - Lexile 600
 * [[file:tsdcurriculum-instruction/CLEAN UP YOUR ACT.pdf|Clean Up Your Act]] - Lexile 650
 * [[file:tsdcurriculum-instruction/Government is for kids.pdf|Government is for Kids]] - Lexile 650
 * ====Videos====
 * [|BrainPop]
 * [|Natural Resources]
 * [|Supply and Demand]
 * [|Adam Smith]
 * [|Banking]
 * [|Budgets]
 * [|Comparing Prices]
 * [|Money]
 * [|Taxes]
 * [|Gas and Oil]
 * [|Communism]
 * [|Fossil Fuels]
 * [|Air Pollution]
 * [|Discovery Education]
 * "American Geography Close-Ups: Maps, Regions, Resources and Climate"
 * "American Geography Close-Ups: Southwestern States"
 * "Boom or Bust"
 * "Planet Earth"
 * TLC Elementary School: People and the Environment"
 * "Economics"
 * [|World Book]
 * [|What is an Economy?]
 * [|Producers and Consumers]
 * [|How Business Works?]
 * [|Saving and Spending]
 * [|Conditions of Poverty]
 * [|A Global Economy]
 * [|The Importance of Natural Resources]
 * [|The Impact of Human Activity]
 * [|Environmental Protections]
 * [|Green Living]
 * ====Other Websites and Resources====
 * [|Time For Kids]
 * [|The Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement]
 * [|California's Energy Office]
 * [|Colorado Government]
 * [|Colorado Virtual Library]
 * Unit 4 - Research and Reasoning and Colorado Economy and Finance
 * ====District Text Materials====
 * __The Colorado Story Textbook__
 * Chapter 8 - Economics and You
 * ====Authentic Short Text====
 * [[file:tsdcurriculum-instruction/Colorado's Economy.pdf|"Colorado's Economy"]] - Lexile 1030
 * [[file:tsdcurriculum-instruction/SO YOU WANT TO WORK WITH HORSES.pdf|"So You Want to Work with Horses"]] - Lexile 930
 * [[file:tsdcurriculum-instruction/World Population.pdf|"World Population 7,000,000,000"]] - Lexile 790
 * [[file:tsdcurriculum-instruction/ECONOMICS 101.pdf|"Economics 101"]] - Lexile 930
 * ====Videos====
 * [|BrainPop]
 * [|Banking]
 * [|Money]
 * [|Interest]
 * [|Budgets]
 * [|Assembly Line]
 * [|Taxes]
 * [|Supply and Demand]
 * [|Discovery Education]
 * "Understanding Economics"
 * "Economics: The Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Goods and Services"
 * ====Other Websites and Resources====
 * [|Experience State History]
 * [|Bureau of Labor Statistics]
 * Promethean Planet: Flipchart: "Economics Vocabulary"
 * [|Hands On Banking]
 * [|The Colorado Mint Website]
 * Unit 5 - Persuasive Text and Current Colorado Government
 * ====District Text Materials====
 * //Scholastic, National Geographic, McGraw-Hill//
 * __The Colorado Story__
 * __My Colorado Notebook__
 * __Go to the Source__
 * "State Government World Book" - Lexile 1090
 * ====Authentic Short Text====
 * //Time for Kids, Weekly Reader, Boy's Life, Junior Scholastic, Ranger Rick, etc//
 * [[file:tsdcurriculum-instruction/Women of power.pdf|"Women of Power"]] - Lexile 840
 * [[file:tsdcurriculum-instruction/Constitution Article.pdf|"5 Things to Know about the Constitution"]] - Lexile 800
 * [[file:tsdcurriculum-instruction/The Constitution is Cool.pdf|"The Constitution is Cool"]]
 * [[file:tsdcurriculum-instruction/World Book Article State Government.pdf|"State Government"]]
 * ====Videos====
 * //BrainPop, World Book, Social Studies Power, Science Power, Early People, Discovery Education//
 * "Principles of the U.S. Constitution - [|Discovery Education]
 * ====Other Websites and Resources====
 * Unit 6 - Synthesizing and Colorado Issues - Compiled By: Linda Crocker
 * ====District Text Materials====
 * __The Colorado Story Textbook__:
 * Chapter 7 - Modern Colorado
 * Chapter 9 - Government for All of Us
 * __[[file:tsdcurriculum-instruction/The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks.pdf|The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks]]__ - //Myths// - Lexile 850
 * //It Takes a Leader// - [[file:tsdcurriculum-instruction/from Trouble at the Mines.pdf|"From Trouble at the Mines"]]
 * ====Authentic Short Text====
 * [[file:tsdcurriculum-instruction/Digging into Southwest Archaeology pt 1.pdf|"Ultimate Field Trip 2 Digging into Southwest Archeology"]] - Lexile 980
 * [[file:tsdcurriculum-instruction/Visiting the Mesa Verde.pdf|"Visiting the Mesa Verde"]] - Lexile 970
 * [[file:tsdcurriculum-instruction/A close look at the Anasazi.pdf|"The Ancient Cliff Dweller of Mesa Verde: A Close Look at the Anasazi"]] - Lexile 880
 * [[file:tsdcurriculum-instruction/Mother Jones's Union Stand.pdf|"Mother Jones's Union Stand- 1913"]] - Lexile 1700
 * [[file:tsdcurriculum-instruction/The Legend of Baby Doe.pdf|"The Legend of Baby Doe"]] - Lexile 1140
 * [[file:tsdcurriculum-instruction/Baby Doe Holds on to the Matchless Mine.pdf|"Baby Doe Holds on to the Matchless Mine"]] - Lexile 810
 * [[file:tsdcurriculum-instruction/Where in the World Did We Come From?.pdf|"Where in the World Did We Come From?"]] - Lexile 750
 * [[file:tsdcurriculum-instruction/Colorado Digs Itself Into a Fiscal Hole .pdf|"Colorado Digs Itself into a Fiscal Hole in the Name of Immigration Enforcement"]] - Lexile 1430
 * [[file:tsdcurriculum-instruction/Immigration-crackdown bill introduced in Colorado Senate.pdf|"Immigration Crackdown Bill Introduced in Colorado Senate"]] - Lexile 1360
 * [[file:tsdcurriculum-instruction/Growing Up Among Mexican Bracero Workers.pdf|"Life Lessons from the Beet Field: Growing Up Among Mexican Bracero Workers"]] - Lexile 1410
 * [[file:tsdcurriculum-instruction/The Colorado Compact reflects.pdf|"The Colorado Compact Reflects an Intersection of Interests Rightly Seeking to Fix a Broken System"]] - Lexile 1530
 * [[file:tsdcurriculum-instruction/Why We Need to Save Energy.pdf|"Why We Need to Save Energy"]] - Lexile 1020
 * [[file:tsdcurriculum-instruction/Water and its Relationship.pdf|"Water and Its Relationship to the Economics of the Headwaters Counties"]] - Lexile 1430
 * [[file:tsdcurriculum-instruction/Udall, Bennett Introduce Resolution re Water.pdf|"Udall, Bennet Introduce Resolution Honoring the Year of Water in Colorado"]] - Lexile 1350
 * [[file:tsdcurriculum-instruction/The importance of NISP to Northern Colorado.pdf|"The Importance of NISP to Northern Colorado"]] - Lexile 1320
 * [[file:tsdcurriculum-instruction/Turn it Off.pdf|"Turn it Off"]] - Lexile 990
 * [[file:tsdcurriculum-instruction/The Case Against Soda.pdf|"The Case Against Soda"]] - Lexile 920
 * [[file:tsdcurriculum-instruction/R U Reading Online.pdf|"R U Reading Online"]] - Lexile 1030
 * [[file:tsdcurriculum-instruction/Putting Kids to the Test.pdf|"Putting Kids to the Test"]] - Lexile 1120
 * [[file:tsdcurriculum-instruction/More Time for School.pdf|"More Time for School"]] - Lexile 1200
 * [[file:tsdcurriculum-instruction/Summer Vacation is Too Long.pdf|"Summer Vacation is Too Long"]] - Lexile 1060
 * [[file:tsdcurriculum-instruction/Hooked!.pdf|"Hooked!"]] - Lexile 470
 * [[file:tsdcurriculum-instruction/Peanut Problems.pdf|"Peanut Problems"]] - Lexile 670
 * "Untitled" by Charlotte Zolotow
 * "The Phase I'm Going Through" by Michael Spooner
 * "Changes" by Michael Spooner
 * "I Am the Book" by Tom Robert Shields
 * "Library" by Valerie Worth
 * "I Love the Look of Words" by Maya Angelou
 * "Words!" by Alan Trussel-Cullen
 * "Plurals" by Dean Koontz
 * "Instructions for Growing" by Unknown
 * "My Man Blue" by Nikki Grimes
 * "The Watcher" by Nikki Grimes
 * "Coke-bottle Brown" by Nikki Grimes
 * "Dreams" by Langston Hughes
 * "April Rain Song" by Langston Hughes
 * "Youth" by Langston Hughes
 * "I,Too" by Langston Hughes
 * "My People" by Langston Hughes
 * "Teacher" by Tracie Vaughn Zimmer
 * "Fence" by Valerie Worth
 * "Once the Wind" by Shake Keane
 * "Soap Bubble" by Valerie Worth
 * "Barefoot" by Valerie Worth
 * "A Famous Peak and a Song" - Lexile 640
 * __[[file:tsdcurriculum-instruction/Myth Theseus and Minotaur.pdf|Theseus and the Minotaur]]__ - Lexile 980
 * __[[file:tsdcurriculum-instruction/Myth Arachne and Athena.pdf|Arachne and Athena]]__ - Lexile 800
 * __[[file:tsdcurriculum-instruction/Myth Androcles.pdf|Androcles]]__ - Lexile 1170
 * ====Videos====
 * [|BrainPop]
 * [|Immigration]
 * [|Discovery Education]
 * "The Pursuit of Happiness - Immigration"
 * "Reasons for Immigration"
 * "Water Rights"
 * "Taming the Colorado River"
 * "Tapped Out: Using Water in Our Everyday Lives"
 * [|World Book]
 * [|What is an Economy?]
 * [|Producers and Consumers]
 * [|How Business Works?]
 * [|Saving and Spending]
 * [|Conditions of Poverty]
 * [|A Global Economy]
 * [|The Importance of Natural Resources]
 * [|The Impact of Human Activity]
 * [|Environmental Protections]
 * [|Green Living]
 * ====Other Websites and Resources====
 * Mining
 * [|Environmental Effect of Coal Mining] - Lexile 1310
 * [|How Does Mining Affect the Environment] - Lexile 1160
 * Water - Ebsco
 * [[file:tsdcurriculum-instruction/A State of Thirst.pdf|A State of Thirst]] - Lexile 1220
 * [[file:tsdcurriculum-instruction/No Mere Pipe Dream.pdf|No Mere Pipe Dream]] - Lexile 1090