Nerd out with me?

Usually my emails have a theme, but not this week--or rather, the theme is "cool stuff I want to share."

Ancient Earth Globe is an online, interactive map that you can use to find out what any area of the world might have looked like at a given point in prehistoric times! Type in a town name to find the names of fossils that have been found nearby. Then click on the name for more information about that particular type of dinosaur. (I typed in Ryegate, because why not?) and followed the trail to this page on the Tatenectes. 

 In summer 2020, Montana The Magazine of Western History put together a digital issue called "African Americans in Montana and the West." It complements our larger web-based Montana's African American Heritage Resources project, which among its many resources includes three lesson plans. Because Black history matters. 

The Historical Museum at Fort Missoula created an online exhibit "Montana Votes! Voting and Suffrage in Montana." H/T Dylan Huisken (Bonner Schools) 

Studying the fur trade? Check out this lesson plan, and especially these videos from the Fort Union Trading Post:

• Fort Union Trading Post Historical Overview (8:42) 
• Trading at Fort Union Trading Post (2:43)*
• Buffalo Robes at Fort Union Trading Post NHS (2:37)
• Fort Union's Hunters Shack (2:37)
• Music in the Fur Trade (6:10)

*This is The Trade House video mentioned in the lesson plan (but the link to it is broken in the lesson plan document). 

Responding to the post "Indian Education Resources, mostly for middle and high school classes," which mentioned an article that Wyohistory.org published on tribal hunting rights, editor Tom Rea pointed out that there is lots more Native history on their site, some of which are aimed at classrooms. He particularly pointed to page "Indigenous People in Wyoming and the West".

Have you come across any material worth sharing? Drop me a line!