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**LESSON 9**

** __Grade Level:__ ** 3rd Grade Social Studies

**__Unit:__** Colorado History

 __**Lesson Objectives:**__ 
 *  Students will learn about important events and places in Colorado history
 * Students will learn how to find these places on a map
 * Students will be able to complete a variety of activities to increase their knowledge of Colorado
 *  Students will learn about Colorado's natural resources and transportation history
 *  Students will learn about the formations and importance of the Rocky Mountains and Colorado River
 * __Time Required To Complete This Lesson:__** One week

**__Title Of Lesson:__** Home Sweet Home

**__Description Of Lesson:__** Students will learn about Colorado, the state's history, important people, places, and events, monuments, natural resources, transportation, and land masses and bodies of water. 

__**In-class Assignment:**__
 * We will read the Colorado History chapter in our Social Studies textbook
 * Students will locate and identify Colorado on a map
 * Students will view a digital multimedia presentation on Colorado and it's geographic beauty
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Students will work in groups to become experts on the facets of the life of a Colorado miner (food, family, community life, etc...) by rotating through multimedia stations
 * Students will identify unique festivals and celebrations from different cities throughout Colorado
 * FIELD TRIP: We will be taking a trip to the Colorado Railroad Museum on April 16th. Permission slips needed to be back to me signed, by April 13th.

<span style="color: #fb680e; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">__**Resources/Materials Needed:**__ <span style="color: #fb680e; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">__<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**The Technology We Used:** __ <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> __<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**The Technology We Used In This Lesson Changes The Teaching/Learning In This Way:** __ By using technology in this lesson, students we able to <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> view the geographic beauty and famous Colorado landmarks as well as read about them by using a <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">digital media presentation, experience the Colorado festivals while learning how to map using Mapwing, an interactive, educational, fun web 2.0 tool, and experience the different facets of being a Colorado miner by the use of rotating through multimedia workstations in groups.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Social Studies Colorado textbook chapter 3
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">US map, globe, and Colorado map
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Audio Video computer setup
 * Mapwing Colorado lesson and worksheets
 * Digital media presentation on Colorado landmarks
 * Mining Stations setup
 * Permission slips and field trip resources
 * We are using a <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">digital media presentation so students can view the geographic beauty and famous Colorado landmarks
 * We are using Mapwing Web 2.0 tool so students can gather information while viewing
 * We are using multimedia stations to become experts on mining in Colorado


 * <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 170%; text-align: center;">ASSIGNMENT DUE **<span style="color: #404040; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[[image:assnmntdue.jpg width="260" height="135"]]
 * Experience the Mapwing interactive presentation and answer the questions embedded in the presentation on a text document. When you are done, save it as the file it as named as and add and underscore (_) and your last name. For instance (Festival Questions_Kuhn).** <span style="color: #fb680e; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;"> **If you would rather view the full Mapwing page, please click here. Make sure you visit all 8 festivals, read all of the information, and click on the hotlinks to discover even more about each Colorado event!**

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