Montana Historical Society NHD Resources

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The Montana Historical Society has a number of resources specially designed to help you with your NHD project.Through hands-on experiences offered by participating in National History Day, today's youth are better able to inform the present and shape the future. NHD inspires children through exciting competitions and transforms teaching through project-based curriculum and instruction. 

Montana Topics for National History Day 2013

How to Research from MHS 

Montana: Stories of the Land website

Resources for Students

Resources Specifically for Teachers

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The Montana Historical Society has several resource to help you implement National History Day specifically and in other ways as well.  here are some resources that may be of help to you.




Montana: Stories of the Land Website
The companion website to THE textbook on Montana History. Discover over twelve thousand years of Montana history. If you are working on a particular chapter at school, visit that chapter page for copies of the worksheets and interesting related links. You can also use the search function to find information about particular topics. Or you can read the online version of the book, Montana: Stories of the Land, cover to cover, since all twenty-two chapters have been posted as low-resolution pdf files. (Designed for use in middle school, but adaptable to elementary and high school).  Aligned to Montana Content Standards and the Essential Understandings, this comprehensive curriculum traces Montana history over the last twelve thousand years, and offers supporting lesson plans, worksheets, tests, and more.

Online Professional Development Training

Resources for Students
Many good resources for students studying or researching Montana History

Montana History and Heritage Education Listserv  
Subscribe to our listserv to join a community of educators committed to place-based learning and teaching Montana history - and to stay apprised of upcoming trainings and new resources.
 
Hands-On History Footlockers 
(Designed for use in elementary school, but adaptable to middle and high school).  Bring reproduction artifacts, photographs, documents and other resources to your classroom to enrich your students' experience of Montana history. (Or use some of the standard's-based lesson plans - even without ordering the footlocker).

 Indian Education for All Lesson Plans
The Montana Historical Society has produced a number of lesson plans to help your students grasp the Essential Understandings regarding Montana Indians while learning more about specific Montana history topics.

Montana Ancient Teachings: A Curriculum for Montana Archaeology and Prehistory 
(Designed for 4th-8th).  Introduce elementary and middle school students to the world of archaeology and what archaeologists have learned about Montana prehistory through archaeology and related scientific disciplines.

African Americans in Montana Heritage Resources 
(Designed for 4th through 8th, adaptable for high school).  Scroll to the bottom of the page to find the standard's-based lesson plans designed to help your class explore this understudied aspect of our state's history


Montana The Magazine of Western History Curriculum Guides 
(Designed for high school). Montana The Magazine of Western History has put the text of several theme issues on-line along with ideas using the articles. These interdisciplinary lessons include full-text of the articles included in that issue along with discussion questions and suggestions for supplemental activities. Guides are available for the following special issues: