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The next stop on the Fifty States tour is found right in the heart of the Rocky Mountains. Join in and discover some of the marvelous features and tourist stops, like Mesa Verde National Park, Pikes Peak, and snowy ski slopes fit for anybody seeking some adventure! You’ll learn about the history of Colorado and how it came to be, well-known symbols that reflect the heart of the people who call it home, and the various weather conditions found across the state’s five different regions. Student Book activities include mapping, lesson summaries, making fudge, the science of skiing, designing a ski resort, and the sinking of the Titanic.

Release Date: October 6, 2025

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Colorado – Scope and Sequence
  • What elevation is and how we measure it using distance above sea level
  • Make fudge using the recipe provided or watch a video to see how it is made
  • Five regions of Colorado: Great Plains, Southern Rocky Mountains, Wyoming Basin, Middle Rocky Mountains, and Colorado Plateau
  • Fourteeners
  • Colorado's geography
  • Rocky Mountain National Park
  • Dinosaur Ridge
  • Pikes Peak
  • Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve
  • Mesa Verde National Park
  • Four Corners Monument
  • Landforms have varying elevations depending on the height above sea level
  • Vocabulary: peak, scale
  • Read or listen to the lyrics of part of "America the Beautiful" and reflect on it
  • Start working on unit project banner, including a flag, facts, and favorite place
  • Colorado's role in the Civil War
  • Pikes Peak gold rush
  • Colorado's statehood
  • Katherine Lee Bates wrote a poem in 1893, which became the song "America the Beautiful" in 1913
  • Start working on unit project banner, including a flag, facts, and favorite place
  • Colorado state symbols
  • Colorado's state flag
  • Color the flag of Colorado
  • With even a tiny bit of faith, impossible things can be done
  • Matthew 17:20
  • Western tiger salamander
  • Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep
  • Lark bunting
  • Stegosaurus armatus
  • Prairie dog
  • Colorado's weather
  • Quaking aspen trees
  • Pioneer species
  • Go on a nature walk and see how many different trees you can spot
  • Prairie dog coteries, burrows, and towns
  • Vocabulary: amphibian, collision
  • Answer comprehension questions about Colorado's symbols with information from the lesson
  • Add Colorado's state symbols to unit project banner
  • Prairie dog families and communities and how they operate
  • Design a home that you would like to live in and plan out who would live there with you and what each room would be for
  • Sketch out your home-plan design
  • Design a state symbol for Colorado
  • How you live your life and walk with Jesus is a symbol to others about who He is
  • Matthew 5:16
  • We can always turn to God for help
  • Psalm 121:1–2 (NIV)
  • Carnation Gold Rush
  • The physics involved in skiing
  • Energy
  • Potential energy
  • Kinetic energy
  • Gravity
  • Rest (zero energy)
  • South Platte River
  • Telluride
  • Colombia, South America
  • Vocabulary: identity, plain
  • Answer comprehension questions about Colorado's industries with information from the lesson
  • Cut out a pocket to glue on your unit project, as well as fact cards about industries in Colorado to place inside
  • Colorado Fifty-Niners
  • How Colorado mining towns transformed into ski towns
  • Farming and its impact on Colorado's economy
  • Ski-resort amenities and activities
  • Design your own ski resort
  • Wisdom is more valuable than worldly treasure
  • Proverbs 2:4–5
  • Where do you go for wisdom?
  • You can plant seeds in people's lives, but only God can make the seeds grow
  • 1 Corinthians 3:6
  • Build boats and test to see if they are unsinkable
  • Being active makes people healthier
  • Children should be active throughout the day
  • Keep track of your physical activity for a week
  • Red Rocks Amphitheatre
  • Atlantic Ocean
  • England
  • New York City
  • Vocabulary: muted, justice
  • Answer comprehension questions about Colorado's people with information from the lesson
  • Draw, write, or dictate a news story about Colorado
  • Add a spotlight on the Unsinkable Molly Brown to the unit project
  • The Unsinkable Molly Brown
  • RMS Titanic
  • People of Colorado: "work hard, play hard" mentality; active, healthy lifestyle
  • Weird laws in Colorado
  • Come up with a news report for something currently happening in California (fact or fiction)
  • "Rocky Mountain High" by John Denver
  • God wants us to look out for others and not just ourselves
  • Mark 10:45
  • What elevation is and how we measure it using distance above sea level
  • Altitude sickness: causes, treatment, and preventative measures
  • Make fudge using the recipe provided or watch a video to see how it is made
  • Five regions of Colorado: Great Plains, Southern Rocky Mountains, Wyoming Basin, Middle Rocky Mountains, and Colorado Plateau
  • Fourteeners
  • Colorado's geography
  • Rocky Mountain National Park
  • Dinosaur Ridge
  • Pikes Peak
  • Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve
  • Mesa Verde National Park
  • Four Corners Monument
  • Continental Divide
  • Landforms have varying elevations depending on the height above sea level
  • Vocabulary: migration, plateau
  • Read the lyrics of part of "America the Beautiful" and write the meaning of one verse in your own words
  • Start working on unit project banner, including a flag, facts, and favorite place
  • Ancestral Puebloans/Basketmakers
  • European exploration and naming of Colorado
  • Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
  • Colorado's role in the Civil War
  • Pikes Peak gold rush
  • Colorado's statehood
  • Katherine Lee Bates wrote a poem in 1893, which became the song "America the Beautiful" in 1913
  • Start working on unit project banner, including a flag, facts, and favorite place
  • Colorado state symbols
  • Colorado's state flag
  • Sketch and color the flag of Colorado
  • With even a tiny bit of faith, impossible things can be done
  • Matthew 17:20
  • Western tiger salamander
  • Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep
  • Lark bunting
  • Stegosaurus armatus
  • Prairie dog
  • Colorado's weather
  • Black-footed ferret
  • Uncompahgre fritillary butterfly
  • Rocky Mountain zinnia
  • Quaking aspen trees
  • Pioneer species
  • Photosynthesis
  • Go on a nature walk, see how many different trees you can spot, and choose one to sketch
  • Prairie dog coteries, burrows, and towns (colonies)
  • Predators of prairie dogs
  • Vocabulary: convey, campaign
  • Answer comprehension questions about Colorado's symbols and weather with information from the lesson
  • Solve riddles about Colorado's state symbols
  • Prairie dog families and communities and how they operate
  • Design a home that you would like to live in and plan out who would live there with you and what each room would be for
  • Go on a nature walk and choose a tree to sketch
  • Sketch out your home-plan design
  • Design a state symbol for Colorado
  • How you live your life and walk with Jesus is a symbol to others about who He is
  • Matthew 5:16
  • We can always turn to God for help
  • Psalm 121:1–2 (NIV)
  • Carnation Gold Rush
  • The physics involved in skiing
  • Energy
  • Potential energy
  • Kinetic energy
  • Gravitational energy
  • Rest (zero energy)
  • Forces acting on a skier: gravity, acceleration, drag, and friction
  • Ways skiers can reduce drag and friction
  • South Platte River
  • Telluride
  • Colombia, South America
  • Georgetown
  • Montezuma
  • Denver
  • Boulder
  • Colorado Springs
  • Vocabulary: staggering, investor
  • Answer comprehension questions about Colorado's industries with information from the lesson
  • Add fact cards about Colorado's industries to your unit project
  • Colorado Fifty-Niners
  • Colorado's silver boom
  • How Colorado mining towns transformed into ski towns
  • Farming and its impact on Colorado's economy
  • Colorado's economic slump after silver values dropped
  • The cost of living in Colorado
  • Ski-resort amenities and activities
  • Plan out a ski resort including costs and logistics
  • Design your own ski resort, and then sketch it out or make a diorama of it
  • Wisdom is more valuable than worldly treasure
  • Proverbs 2:4–5
  • Where do you go for wisdom?
  • You can plant seeds in people's lives, but only God can make the seeds grow
  • 1 Corinthians 3:6
  • Build boats and test to see if they are unsinkable
  • Test to see how long you can keep your hand in cold water and how it affects your movement
  • Use a container with compartments to see what happens if some of them fill up with water
  • Being active makes people healthier
  • Aerobic activity
  • Children should be active 60 minutes or more per day and get their heart rate up at least three times per week
  • Keep track of your physical activity for a week
  • Red Rocks Amphitheatre
  • Atlantic Ocean
  • Southampton, England
  • New York City
  • Vocabulary: emboy, interpret
  • Answer comprehension questions about Colorado's people with information from the lesson
  • Research something currently happening in the state, take notes on it, and present it in a news report
  • Add a spotlight on the Unsinkable Molly Brown to the unit project
  • The Unsinkable Molly Brown
  • RMS Titanic
  • People of Colorado: "work hard, play hard" mentality; active, healthy lifestyle
  • Weird laws in Colorado
  • Rodeo and cowboy heritage in Colorado
  • Political climate in Colorado
  • Come up with a news report for something currently happening in the state
  • God wants us to look out for others and not just ourselves
  • Mark 10:45
  • What elevation is and how we measure it using distance above sea level
  • Altitude sickness: causes, treatment, and preventative measures
  • How much oxygen is available at different elevations
  • Research the elevations of different mountain peaks
  • Make fudge using the recipe provided or watch a video to see how it is made
  • Five regions of Colorado: Great Plains, Southern Rocky Mountains, Wyoming Basin, Middle Rocky Mountains, and Colorado Plateau
  • Fourteeners
  • Colorado's geography
  • Rocky Mountain National Park
  • Dinosaur Ridge
  • Pikes Peak
  • Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve
  • Mesa Verde National Park
  • Four Corners Monument
  • Continental Divide
  • New Mexico
  • Wyoming
  • Utah
  • Arizona
  • Nebraska
  • Kansas
  • Oklahoma
  • Texas
  • Landforms have varying elevations depending on the height above or below sea level
  • Vocabulary: summit, strike
  • Read the lyrics of "America the Beautiful" and write what each verse means to you
  • Write your own verse to add to "America the Beautiful"
  • Start planning unit project presentation
  • Ancestral Puebloans/Basketmakers
  • European exploration and naming of Colorado
  • Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
  • Colorado's role in the Civil War
  • Pikes Peak gold rush
  • Colorado's statehood
  • Katherine Lee Bates wrote a poem in 1893, which became the song "America the Beautiful" in 1913
  • Colorado state symbols
  • Colorado's state flag
  • Sketch and color the flag and state seal of Colorado
  • With even a tiny bit of faith, impossible things can be done
  • Matthew 17:20
  • Western tiger salamander
  • Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep
  • Lark bunting
  • Stegosaurus armatus
  • Prairie dog
  • Colorado's weather
  • Black-footed ferret
  • Uncompahgre fritillary butterfly
  • Rocky Mountain zinnia
  • Quaking aspen trees
  • Pioneer species
  • Photosynthesis
  • Go on a nature walk, see how many different trees you can spot, and choose one to sketch
  • Prairie dog coteries, burrows, and towns (colonies)
  • Predators of prairie dogs
  • Vocabulary: signature, oppressive
  • Use guided notes to create a summary paragraph about Colorado's nature and weather
  • Write a poem about Colorado and add it to your unit project
  • Prairie dog families and communities and how they operate
  • Pros and cons of multigenerational housing
  • Design a home that you would like to live in and plan out who would live there with you and what each room would be for
  • Go on a nature walk and choose a tree to sketch
  • Sketch out your home-plan design
  • Design a state symbol for Colorado
  • How you live your life and walk with Jesus is a symbol to others about who He is
  • Matthew 5:16
  • We can always turn to God for help
  • Psalm 121:1–3 (NIV)
  • Carnation Gold Rush
  • The physics involved in skiing
  • Energy
  • Potential energy
  • Kinetic energy
  • Gravitational energy
  • Rest (zero energy)
  • Forces acting on a skier: gravity, acceleration, drag, and friction
  • Ways skiers can reduce drag and friction
  • South Platte River
  • Telluride
  • Colombia, South America
  • Georgetown
  • Montezuma
  • Denver
  • Boulder
  • Colorado Springs
  • Vocabulary: lure, repeal
  • Use guided notes to create a summary paragraph about Colorado's industries and economy
  • Write about the industry that has been the most impactful to Colorado and add it to your unit project
  • Colorado Fifty-Niners
  • Colorado's silver boom
  • How Colorado mining towns transformed into ski towns
  • Farming and its impact on Colorado's economy
  • Colorado's economic slump after silver values dropped
  • The cost of living in Colorado
  • Colorado's Taxpayer Bill of Rights (TABOR)
  • Ski resort amenities and activities
  • Plan out a ski resort including costs and logistics
  • Design your own ski resort, and then make a travel brochure or diorama of it
  • Wisdom is more valuable than worldly treasure
  • Proverbs 2:4–5
  • Where do you go for wisdom?
  • You can plant seeds in people's lives, but only God can make the seeds grow
  • 1 Corinthians 3:6
  • The parable of the sower in Matthew 13
  • Build boats and test to see if they are unsinkable
  • Test to see how long you can keep your hand in cold water and how it affects your movement
  • Use a container with compartments to see what happens if some of them fill up with water
  • Being active makes people healthier
  • Children should be active 60 minutes or more per day and do aerobic, muscle-building, and bone-strengthening activities at least three times per week
  • Keep track of your physical activity for two weeks
  • Red Rocks Amphitheatre
  • Atlantic Ocean
  • Southampton, England
  • New York City
  • Vocabulary: integral, innovative
  • Use guided notes to create a summary paragraph about Colorado's people and governance
  • Research something currently happening in the state, take notes on it, and present it in a news report
  • Add the last section to unit project and present the finished work to your family or class
  • Grade your unit project with the rubric provided
  • The Unsinkable Molly Brown
  • RMS Titanic
  • People of Colorado: "work hard, play hard" mentality; active, healthy lifestyle
  • Weird laws in Colorado
  • Rodeo and cowboy heritage in Colorado
  • Political climate in Colorado
  • Tiny home villages in Denver for the homeless
  • Come up with a news report for something currently happening in the state
  • God wants us to look out for others and not just ourselves
  • Mark 10:45
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