The
Montana Primary Sources is a pack of 20 primary source documents that are relevant to the history in Montana. We have created a
FREE Online Teacher’s Guide for Primary Sources to help you to teach primary sources more effectively and use creative strategies for integrating primary source materials into your classroom. This
FREE Online Teacher's Guide for Primary Sources is 15 pages. It includes teacher tools, student handouts, and student worksheets. Click
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FREE Online Teacher's Guide for Primary Sources.
The Montana Primary Sources will help your students build common core skills including:
• Analysis
• Critical Thinking
• Point of View
• Compare and Contrast
• Order of Events
• And Much More!
Perfect for gallery walks and literature circles! Great research and reference materials!
The 20
Montana Primary Sources are:
• Photograph of General George Armstrong Custer and wife Elizabeth in 1864 – Custer died at the Battle of Little Bighorn
• Photograph of St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Mission – St. Mary’s was first permanent settlement in Montana – established 1841
• Photograph showing bird’s-eye view of Helena, Montana – 1875
• Photographic print of Lakota Chief Sitting Bull – 1885
• Photograph of frontier post office in eastern Montana – circa 1885
• Photograph of Buffalo Soldiers at Fort Keogh, Montana – 1890
• Photograph of President Theodore Roosevelt speaking at entrance to Yellowstone National Park – Gardiner, Montana – 1903
• Photograph of copper miner on hill overlooking Butte, Montana – 1905
• Photograph showing inside of teepee on Crow Indian reservation – 1906
• Photograph of Chief Plenty Coups, chief of the Crows – 1908
• Advertisement for Great Northern Railway promoting and available for settlement in Montana, Idaho, and Washington – 1909
• Photograph of Montana homestead – 1910
• Photograph of Kalispel girl – circa 1910
• Photograph of Jeannette Rankin of Montana speaking from balcony outside National American Woman Suffrage Association meeting – 1917
• National Park Service poster promoting Yellowstone National Park – 1938 • U.S. Travel Bureau poster promoting travel to Montana – 1939
• Postage stamp commemorating Lewis and Clark Expedition – stamp issued 1954
• Photograph of Montana State Capitol – photo taken 2008
• Population density map of Montana – 2010
Your students will:
• think critically and analytically, interpret events, and question various perspectives of history.
• participate in active learning by creating their own interpretations instead of memorizing facts and a writer’s interpretations.
• integrate and evaluate information provided in diverse media formats to deepen their understanding of historical events.
• experience a more relevant and meaningful learning experience.
Each primary resource is printed on sturdy 8.5" X 11" cardstock.