Student Activities
General William Jackson Palmer Curriculum:
- General William Jackson Palmer Builds a Railroad!
- William Jackson Palmer: Founder of Colorado Springs – Lesson Plans for K-2
- Moffat the Rabbit Meets a General
American Indian Activities:
- Ute Indian Games
- Native Americans’ Use of Bison
- Making a Parfleche - A Native American Backpack!
- Looking at Ute Territory – Then and Now
Other Activities:
- Real People Real Stories: Heritage of the Pikes Peak Region
- Telling and Preserving Your Story – Creating a Journal
- Build Your Own City
- Getting Around Town
- Routes West Map Activity
Sources:
- Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum
- Starsmore Center for Local History
- Diehl, Bev. A Teacher’s Guide: History of the Pikes Peak Region. Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum, 1990.
- Wroth, William, ed. Ute Indian Arts and Culture: From Prehistory to the New Millennium.
- Taylor Museum of the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center. Colorado Springs, Colorado. 2000.
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The Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad has been in continuous operation since 1881 and has appeared in more than a dozen movies including How the West Was Won (1963) and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969).
