The Molly Brown House Museum offers tours and programs for students and adults year round. The links below can guide you to resources both at the museum, and resources that can come to your classroom.
DISCOVERING DENVER: BRICK BY BRICK
A 3rd and 4th grade level publication that aligns with Colorado’s State Model Content Standards. Discovering Denver: Brick by Brick highlights important buildings in Denver’s history and explores artifacts dating to the period, making it a perfect guide for your local history unit. The book also includes a teacher resource packet with lesson plans, glossaries, field trip options and scavenger hunts using local landmarks and artifacts to engage all types of learners.
- Download for free: Discovering Denver: Brick by Brick Student Book
- Download for free: Discovering Denver: Brick by Brick Student Book in Spanish
- Download for free: Discovering Denver: Brick by Brick Teacher’s Guide
TO PURCHASE Discovering Denver: Brick by Brick call 303-832-4092 x17.
Copies are $15.00 per book. For a limited time only, with your purchase of Discovering Denver receive a free teacher guide!
Copies are also available for check out at all Denver Public Libraries. Copies have also been placed in all Denver Public Elementary School libraries and Cherry Creek Elementary School libraries.
Interested in using Discovering Denver: Brick by Brick in your classroom? You can rent up to 30 books for $35.00 for a two week rental. Call 303-832-4092 xt 17 or email hpressman@mollybrown.org to ask for more details.
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Discovering Denver Brick by Brick is a publication of Historic Denver, Inc. in collaboration with its flagship property, the Molly Brown House Museum. This project has been funded in part by the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s Peter Grant Preservation Fund for Colorado and by a State Historical Fund grant from Colorado Historical Society.The contents and opinions contained herein do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of Colorado Historical Society.
PRE-VISIT MATERIALS
Below are a variety of pre-visit materials which you may find useful:
Pre-visit Packet (timeline, vocabulary, info on mining and Victorian life, and more!)
Margaret “Molly” Brown Biography for Students
Molly Brown House Museum Suggested Reading List
Margaret “Molly” Brown Word Search
Mapping It Out: Denver 1908 and Today
Travelling by Stagecoach/Train Map Activity
Classroom Restoration Activity
Herstory: Women in American History by National History Day
SCAVENGER HUNTS
Need some Scavenger Hunts for your field trip to Denver? Click on the links below for the area of town you will be visiting!
TEACHER TRAINING
Objects, Art, & People: Teaching with Primary Sources Teacher Institute
How do art, history and biography intersect in the study of Colorado’s past?
What resources are available to promote learning with primary sources?
How can you incorporate primary sources into almost everything you teach?
Join us to find out the answers to these questions and more this summer! Collaborate with your peer teachers and create lesson plans focusing on the history of Colorado through art and biography. Learn more here: https://sites.google.com/view/teacherinstitute/home