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Please use these resources (updated October 2022) to enhance the Golden History Museum & Park’s visit to your classroom.

Building Colorado Communities

Recommended for Third Grade

Teacher Information

This contains important logistical information including how to divide your students into groups, what pre-lesson activities to complete, and what technology our facilitators require.

Community Profile Packets

Each student will play the game as a member of a historic community. Use this packet to introduce your students to the six featured communities represented in the program.

Investigation Worksheet

Use this worksheet to help your students review the information in their community packet.

Vocabulary Worksheet

This is a list of vocabulary included across the different community packets and used during the game. This is a great way for students to share information about each community with their classmates or to utilize other sources, such as dictionaries, to find the answers.



Building Colorado Cities

Recommended for Fourth Grade

Teacher Information

This contains important logistical information including how to divide your students into groups, what pre-lesson activities to complete, and what technology our facilitators require.

Parent Newsletter

Print this newsletter out for your students as a take home assignment after the class. You can have students write our any answers or comments on a separate piece of paper.

Pre-Lesson: Vocabulary

Reviewing these vocabulary words will help your students prepare for the game. This can be an individual assignment or students can be divided into their groups.

Post-Lesson: City Profiles

Use this activity after your students have already played the game. Each city from the game has a video profile. Students can answer questions about their city by using the worksheet.



Ute Knowledge: STEM Kit

Recommended for Third to Fourth Grade

Teacher Information

This contains important logistical information and expectations including how to divide your students into groups.

Ute Tribal Paths Online Exhibit from History Colorado

This online exhibit allows students to explore the history of the Ute people, Colorado’s oldest inhabitants, history from time immemorial to the present day.

  • Pre-Visit: Hides for Horses and Invasion
  • Post-Visit: Reservation Life and We are Still Here

Nuu-cui Strong Fourth Grade Curriculum (View the full 464-page document)

Nuu-cui Strong  is a resource for fourth grade educators to use to support teaching the history, culture, and present lives of the Ute People. This resource was developed in collaboration with Colorado’s Ute Tribes, the Colorado Commission of Indian Affairs, the Colorado Department of Education, History Colorado, Denver Public Library, Denver Art Museum, and educators statewide. The curriculum aligns with Colorado’s academic standards and is a dynamic resource that will be reviewed every 6 years to ensure its integrity.

Recommended Lessons from Nuu-cui Strong

  • Pre-lesson: Ute History Background Information (PDF pages 20-21)
  • Pre-lesson: Creation Story (PDF pages 22-37)

More activities coming soon.

Thank you to History Colorado for granting the Golden History Museum & Park a Ute Knowledge History Take-Out Kit. The Ute Knowledge History Take-Out Kit is part of the Ute STEM Project, supported by the National Science Foundation. This program is possible through the expert knowledge and generous efforts of the representatives of Southern Ute Indian Tribe, the Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation, and the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe (“The three Ute Tribes.”) and was developed by History Colorado.

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