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Of special interest to: High school teachers (and middle school teachers who do current events)
Re: Connecting Past to Present with Montana Free Press articles
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Do you subscribe to the Montana Free Press? If I taught government, current events, or Montana history in high school or even middle school, I'd have students to take turns finding and presenting articles from the site. It's hands-down the best news reporting in the state.
Catching up on my reading, I noticed several Montana Free Press articles that tie nicely with Montana history topics. I think they would lend themselves to interesting discussions, possibly using Project Zero's Circle of Viewpoints Thinking Routine:
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Mill closures ‘shock’ industry, but officials say demand for wood remains. Pair this with:
- Montana Mosaic video, "Chapter 7: Montana's Resource Driven Economy, 1940s-1960s"
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Montana to Congress: Berkeley Pit ‘a unique opportunity’ for rare earth elements. Pair this with:
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Resources from PitWatch, the online home of the Berkeley Pit Public Education Committee.
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"The Berkeley Pit," Clark Fork Watershed Education Program
- "Remaking the Wide-Open Town: Butte at the End of the Twentieth Century," by Brian Shovers, Montana The Magazine of Western History, Autumn 1998.
- Montana Mosaic video, Chapter 10: The Anaconda Copper Mining Company
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BLM adopts rule described as a ‘generation-defining’ shift for America’s largest land manager
- Pair this with a discussion of this timeline, which outlines different laws affecting use of public lands.
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Teaching Montana History is edited (and mostly written) by MTHS Outreach and Interpretation Program Manager Martha Kohl. |
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