High School Resources

Montana: Stories of the Land is used in both middle and high school Montana history classes. Check with your middle school colleagues to see which part of this extensive and robust curriculum they are using before planning your course. As a high school teacher, you may wish to organize your class around core themes, instead of chronologically. Email mkohl@mt.gov for ideas and suggestions!

Don't teach Montana history? We also have great resources for your American history, Art, English, Government, or Theater class.

American History

• Montana and the Great War
• Reader's Theater: Letters Home from Montanans at War
• Hazel Hunkins, Billings Suffragist: A Primary Source Investigation
• National History Day 

 Art and Theater

• Montana’s Charlie Russell 
• Reader's Theater: Letters Home from Montanans at War
• A Beautiful Tradition: Ingenuity and Adaptation in a Century of Plateau Women's Art
• The Art of Storytelling: Plains Indian Perspectives

Civics and Government

• Resources for Teaching about the Montana Constitution
• Montana Women's Legal History Lesson Plan
• And more!

English Language Arts

• Reader's Theater: Letters Home from Montanans at War
• Resources Commemorating the 150th Anniversary of the Marias Massacre (to pair with Fools Crow)
• Oral History in the Classroom
  • Reserve the Oral History in the Classroom Mini Footlocker to also get access to eight Sony IC Audio Recorders, batteries and chargers and additional reference material.
• Girl from the Gulches: The Story of Mary Ronan Study Guide 
  • A PDF of Book One is available for free download
• "Poems for Two Voices"
• Resilience: Stories of Montana Indian Women
• Reader's Theater: Letters Home from Montanans at War
• Hope in Hard Times: New Deal Photographs of Montana chapter excerpt and PowerPoint and letters from drought-stricken farmers (to accompany Grapes of Wrath or Into the Dust)
• "Montana's Landless Indians and the Assimilation Era of Federal Indian Policy: A Case of Contradiction"

Indian Education for All

• Ordinary People Do Extraordinary Things! Connecting Biography to Larger Social Themes Lesson Plan
• Resources Commemorating the 150th Anniversary of the Marias Massacre
• "Montana's Landless Indians and the Assimilation Era of Federal Indian Policy: A Case of Contradiction"
• "Mining Sacred Ground: Environment, Culture, and Economic Development on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation" 
• And more!

Media and Discussion Guides

• Montana Mosaic: 20th-Century People and Events (videos)
• Montana The Magazine of Western History (articles and discussion guides) 

Teaching with Primary Sources

• Learning from Historical Documents lessons
• Annotated Resource Sets with links to primary sources from the gold rush to the Great Depression
• Montana Newspapers Online (access to millions of pages of Montana newspapers)
• Women at Work Lesson Plan: Clothesline Timeline
• And more!

Digital Projects

• Montana and the Great War 
• Montana's African American Heritage Resources 
• Relationships, Agency, and Power Dynamics: Photographers of the US West and Their Photographic 'Subjects'
  • A scavenger hunt for this exhibit is available as a Google Form.
• Montana Women's History 
• And more!