Every spring I send out a survey asking folks to tell me about the lesson they will make sure to do again next year, no matter what. And every fall I share your answers to that question. I've already posted the elementary and middle school teacher recommendations. Read on for high school inspiration (with comments from me in brackets):
Deb McLaughlin, Belgrade High School, wrote: "I did a WWI unit using the Montana and the Great War Story Maps. We did a class activity in which the student picked a primary source and explained it to the class. It really made the time period come alive. Then we investigated sedition using the UM Sedition Project website and they made a poster similar to what hangs in the Deer Lodge prison. Students were able to make connection to contemporary issues and were really engaged." [Resources that can be used to accompany the Story Maps can be found here, and include shorter (1-2 class periods) and longer (2-3 weeks) lesson plans as well as a scavenger hunt. The shorter lesson plan was designed for middle school, but it is easily adaptable to high school.]
Helena High School English teacher Jill Van Allstyne shared ideas and resources that were shared with her by Jeremy Red Eagle, a member of the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate, who used to come as a guest speaker to her class. He "would show us the film Dakota 38 and help us understand it. ... This film is about a group of mostly South Dakota indigenous men who travel by horseback to Mankato, MN (in modern times) to honor their ancestors who were killed in the largest mass execution in U.S. history." "The film is available for free online. I will include some links here:
- Dakota 38 trailer and full movie
- Smooth Feather Youth
- "South Dakota artist selected for Minnesota arts program"
Lynn Mason, Corvallis High School, 10th grade Geography and World History, wrote: "I incorporate IEFA all throughout the school year in each unit we do in Geography or World History (even Driver Education!) Sovereignty is one of my favorite topics whenever we learn about different types of government." [I'm always looking for good resources on sovereignty! If you've got favorites, please let me know.]
Several people made anonymous suggestions:
One teacher leads her students in a collaborative unit with English 10 that includes a novel study using Thin Wood Walls, as well as an investigation of Japanese Interment and Detention Camps, including Fort Missoula as part of her investigation of World War II.
Another wrote: "Did not teach a lesson, but one at our school combines the art and English class based on the importance of Glacier National Park to the Salish and Kootenai tribes in a place based learning project."
Do you have a lesson, resource, or strategy you love? It's not too late to share it! Email me and I'll share it out.
P.S. We had to migrate our website to a new platform, which may have led to some broken links. We can usually fix bad links quickly if we know about them. Will you help us identify problems by emailing me any broken links you find? Pretty please?
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