Teacher Information Greeley History

Teacher Information This page has instructions, hints and files made especially for the teacher to use in their classrooms. Preview this page at least a week before you plan on using the site for the first time.
New for 2009 Oktoberfest is now included on the Activities Page and has a page. There are 2 new Rattlesnake Kate videos on the Rattlesnake Kate page. Immigration Page includes how the addition of workers from Somalia and Asia are changing the fabric of our city. Geo-tagged Virtual Field Trips There are two of the Poudre River Trail included on the Recreation Page. This is a good way to let kids explore some mapping skills. I have also added two about the Poudre Learning Center. They may be found via Location page then Poudre Learning Center page. Each of the Virtual Geo-Tagged Field Trips opens in the same window as it is linked in. Therefore, you must back arrow to return to the first page. Map Showing Points of Interest Clickable map showing points of interest in Greeley. This also has a compass rose so children can think about direction as they explore the map.The map moves from east to west. Points of Interest Map
How the Pages are Written/Hints for Using with Kids While writing the information for the pages, I tried to meet various reading levels that you will have in a typical classroom. The main ideas are in the bolded sentences. I tried to write those at a lower reading level so that kids who are not strong readers will still understand the important information. If all they can read are the topic sentences, they should have a fair understanding of the topics. Having kids work on the pages in pairs also helps, especially, now that second grade does Greeley History. Hopefully, all of the graphics have Alt tags which helps to identify the picture as it loads. To meet the needs of ESL students, I have attempted to shelter some of the most important ideas with graphics or other media. One of the tricks that I use is to set up a few machines with large files then have students rotate through those in pairs to decrease wait time. The graphics and media engage the students. The trick is to get them to read the information on the pages, too. I assign the pages that they are to research on and have them be responsible for finding specific information. It helps for them to have some type of note taking organizer available. That is also one of the reasons that I placed the pictures at the bottom of pages.
Browser Help Preferred browsers are Safari, Internet Explorer and Firefox. I have not tested Netscape. Screen resolution should be at 1024 x 768 with the highest color settings.
Translated Pages in Spanish Google provides website translations. Google Translation Tool. Greeley History Translated into Spanish
Navigation - Site Maps Important News You may now search the site using Google at the bottom of this page. Type in your subject then have Google search www.greeleyhistory.org for the topic. There are also a few new quizzes, new movies on the Potato Days page, and some new pictures throughout the site. Navigation for most pages is set up with buttons on the top left, text links on the top and bottom of the page. There is a Back to Top link at the bottom of most pages.The keyboard navigation keys may also be helpful. Some long pages have anchor links. (Anchor links help with scrolling. They jump to a spot on the page.) Most links and pictures do open up in new windows. Have students look for back arrows. If the back arrow is not available, close any new windows when they are finished with the page or else they will have many windows opened and slow down the browser. Most open in a new window. Once in a while, a link does open up in the same window. When a page does that, the back arrow will be available. I use this with the geotagged Virtual Field Trips so they don't crash the browser. There are many pages that have many links. Sometimes the children can get "lost" and not see everything that you may want them to see. I am beginning to add Site Map Navigation Pages for those sections of the site that are large. So far I have one done for the History Pages. (It needs some updating)To navigate the sitemap, kids will need to scroll from left to right.
Plugins You may need to put these inside the plugins folder in the browser's plugin folder. The preferred browsers are Safari and Internet Explorer 5.0 or above. You should also have Quicktime 4.0 or above installed. Curtis Glessman has encouraged me to remake my Hyperstudio files into Flash files. I am starting this process. You will need Flash 8 or above to view most of the Flash files. District 6 users may need to have OIT come and get the computer plug-ins loaded. They can do this remotely.
Large Files to Pre-download I download these to a few machines then rotate pairs of kids through the machines. With the move, my videos seem to take forever to load. I am working on getting those more user friendly.
Rope Making Movie		Poudre River Trail Movie
Printing Press		Weaving Movie
These are PDF files. You will need Acrobat Reader to download and print these documents. Hit the Back Arrow to return to this page. Acrobat Reader Installer This has most OS readers available for download.		Flash Paper I am beginning to add new resources using Flash Paper. Click on the >> to see a drop down menu. Click on the square to see the full sheet in a new window. There are some with scroll bars that you can use to preview the thumbnail.

This is a concept web sheet about Nathan Meeker.	This is an organizer to help students with vocabulary.	This can be used to help with organizing a report.

This has students look at changes experienced by three different groups over time.	Greeley turned down being on the I-25 corridor. Was that a good idea? This sheets helps students look at both sides. This may be a good activity to do in pairs or in small groups.	Internet Research Sheet. This may be used for other sites as well as this one. It has places for Bibliography information.

Here is a Three Column Notes sheet for important events in Greeley's history. White River Massacre is already on the sheet.	Here is a Three Column Notes sheet for telling about Greeley and making decisions about whether or not it is a good or bad place to live.	This organizer allows students to tell how the location of Greeley and the values of the early settlers had an effect on both the agriculture and the recreational activities of the town.

Students can organize their thoughts into the categories facts or opinion using this sheet.	Use this sheet to help students plan their text fora slide sholw presentation. It uses a simple PowerOut model.	These are cards without titles for planning other cards than the ones included on the other sheet.

Here is a sheet where students can figure out how many snakes Kate probably needed to kill each hour. They then tell approximately how many she killed each minute.	Students can fill in the blanks of this paragraph to write about how agriculture affects Greeley's economy.	Here is a very simple plan on how you may schedule using the Greeley History Site and assignments with your class. This is based on 30-45 minute class periods.

Here is a plan sheet to use some of the vocabulary words for a Making Words lesson.	Sheet for students to use after the Making Words lesson for irrigate.	Sheet for students to use after the Making Words lesson for utopia.

Sheet for students to use after the Making Words lesson for pioneer.	Sheet for students to use after a Making Words lesson.

Word Wall Words You may cut these out and post for the unit. These are on Flash Paper .	Greeley Flipbook You can use for notes or for a final product.	Vocabulary Cards Students draw pictures for cards without photos. They define the word and also write a sentence using the word. Based on the Lansdown Vocabulary Card idea.

Letter writing paper. Have students write a friendly letter that Rattlesnake Kate may have written to a friend after her escapade with the snakes.	Students can use this organizer to explore how agriculture still is important to Greeley.	Before learning about Greeley, students can make predictions about Greeley's past. After they have completed the unit, they may make predictions about the future of Greeley.
On-Line Writing
This is one of my favorite activities. On the Resources Page there is a link to the on-line writing page. There students can select a topic to write about online. They have a picture and word bank on the page. It will not save so they will have to finish in one setting. A starter is included, but students may highlight and type over to use their own. If your browser has a spell-check feature, they may use that. If your students know how to toggle between windows, it is useful for them to have the page about their topic opened along with the writing page. This is also a great partner activity. You may print out the writing. However, they can only see the writing within the allocated space to get all of their words printed. The space is 30 characters across for 30 lines.
Assessments These are online assessments that the students can use to see what they have learned at the end of the unit. These may also be found on the Resources page.
Greeley Dates This is a short quiz that has kids type in the year of an event in Greeley.		Fill in the Blank Quiz This has the students pick the correct word to fill in the blank.
Matching Quiz Match a Picture from Greeley to its name.		Places In Greeley Match Quiz Match a picture of a place in Greeley to its name.
Greeley Quiz This quiz will randomly show 10 questions about Greeley. There are a total of 20 questions in all.		Vocabulary Quiz Drag and Drop. Shuffles five words each time the quiz is loaded.
Rattlesnake Kate Cloze There is a drop down menu of all of the missing words. Forty-eight words in all.
These are folders of resources to be downloaded and put into other applications. They are stuffit files. You will need Stuffit Expander to open. I will be zipping the graphics and movies for PCs soon.
AppleWorks 6.0 Clippings		AppleWorks 5.0 or ClarisWorks Libraries
-To add a folder of pics to Appleworks 6.0 Clippings, Choose Show Clippings from the File Menu. Click on the + tab and give the new collection a name to appear on the tab, ie; Greeley. Add the items to the new clippings panel by Drag and Drop. You may rename the item. Click on the Details arrow under the Clipping to change the name. -Or just add these folders. Inside the greeley_clippings folder are sets of images. Open up the Appleworks folder on your HD, open the Clippings Folder then drag the new folders into that folder. I then ANET the folders to all the machines in the Lab.		There is a Greeley Library for Appleworks 5.0 or Clarisworks 4.0 that you may drag into the Appleworks Libraries Folder. You will find the library inside the Appleworks Libraries Folder; it is named Greeley.
Kidspiration Libraries		Kidspiration Activities
Inside the Kidspiration Libraries folder are library files that you may copy into the Social Studies Folder inside the Libraries Folder of Kidspiration.		Inside the Kidspiration Activities Folder are some templates to use. You just copy them into the Social Studies Folder inside the Kidspiration Activities folder
Greeley Pics		Greeley Movies
One place that you may want to copy files is in the Hyperstudio Art Folder. There is a separate Greeley Movies Folder that you may want to put in the Hyperstudio Art Folder(or Media Library)-Movies. There is a Greeley Sound Folder as well that may also be put into the Hyperstudio Art/Media Library folder into the Sounds folder. The Greeley Pics Folder may be put into the HyperStudio Art or Media Folder for graphics to use.		These are Quicktime movie files that are short that kids may use in presentations.
Greeley Sounds		Hyperstudio Templates
AppleWorks		Simple Text
There are files to be printed in the Appleworks folder as well as pdf files. Some of the PDF files are available as editable versions in the Appleworks folder. The files are locked so students are forced to rename to save the files. I also saved the Appleworks files as AppleWorks 5.0 so that even the older iMacs should be able to open them.		This has the stories from the District 6 curriculum.
Other Types of Documents

Database Template to make Trading Cards of Famous Greeley People. This is in AppleWorks 6. Here it is in AppleWorks 5.0		A book about Greeley Students can write about Greeley and bind the pages into a book showing what they learned. This is a pdf file.
If you have MS Word on either a Mac or PC, use these templates to make the trading cards. Word Database and Trading Card Templates for Word merge documents. These will open into a new document. Job aid is in the next cell.
		Job aid for Trading Card Datafile in Word for the PC.
Field Trips
Linn Grove Cemetery 1700 Cedar Avenue Greeley, Colorado 80631 350-9385 Guided historical tours may be arranged for groups of 10 or more.		Houston Gardens 515 23 Avenue Greeley, Colorado 80631 353-4837 Often fourth grade goes here for a field trip, you may want to check with your school's teachers.
C.O. Plumb-White Farm 955 35 Avenue Greeley, Colorado 80631 (970)350-9275		Meeker House There is a charge for groups. 1324 9 Avenue Greeley, Colorado 80631 (970)350-9221
Centennial Village 1475 A Street Greeley, Co 80631 (970)350-9224 There is a 10 minute orientation video available. Guided tours may be scheduled in advance.		City Museum 714 8th Street Greeley, Colorado 80631 (970)350-9220 Guided group tours will have a small charge. Self guided tours are free. Please, make reservations if your group is 10 people or more.
Poudre Learning Center 8313 F Street 970-352-1267 FAX 970-352-1705 Email Ray Tschillard at rtschillard@greeleyschools.org Website Come visit the Poudre Learning Center to find out how important the Cach la Poudre River is to our community. This is a wonderful way to get students involved in hands-on learning.
Possible Guest Speakers These are a few resources for possible guest speakers. Try to schedule for a whole second grade unit.
Spanish Colony and Greeley Grays email Gabriel and Jody Lopez gabriel.Lopez@comcast.net They are willing to talk to classes.		Tannis Bator for performing the Rattlesnake Kate Story. Her original performance is about 20 minutes long.
Peggy Ford at the City Museum. 714 8th Street Greeley, Colorado 80631 (970)350-9220
Other Resources Available
History Boxes Available through the Archives at the City Museum 714 8th Street Greeley, Colorado 80631 (970)350-9220 These are themed and related to Pioneer-Greeley history themes. Call to see which ones are available.
Here are some extension activities from the Web.
Be a Farmer This is the Teacher page link. The link for the kids to use is also on the Resource Page. This unit would work well with cooperative groups of 4 to be each type of farmer. Or you may choose everyone to be a beef farmer. Kids Page
Operation Lifesaver Learn about train safety on these pages. There are printouts for kids.
Online Surveys Below are two online surveys about the website. One for students and one for teachers. You must have your web browser set up for email. You may want to have students do the survey on a select few computers so that you can monitor. You may only select a random sampling of students to do the survey also. The surveys will help me to improve this resource. Thank you!
Survey for Students		Survey for Teachers
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Updated September 27, 2009 9:14 AM

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