Link Roundup and Upcoming PD

 

Teaching with Maps

The second of our Second Tuesday PDs is coming this November 12, from 4:30-5:30 p.m. "Teaching with Maps" will feature ideas from MTHS Teacher Leaders in History Hali Richmond (grade 4, Sunburst) and Jennifer Hall (grades 7-8, Eureka) along with your ideas! Register.  

Interesting Links

Sometimes, there's no theme, except for "noteworthy things we saw on the internet or in our inboxes (or through our attendance at MFPE).

President Biden apologized to victims of the US government’s 150-year Indian Boarding School system at a ceremonial gathering at Arizona's Gila River Indian Community. View the video.

Life in the Land is a documentary film and podcast series that shares stories of those who interact with the complexities of Montana’s land, waters, and communities, looking at the success and value in collaborative & locally led initiatives. Full disclosure: I haven't yet watched these films or listened to their podcasts, but they seem worth noting, particularly ones that focus on the Blackfeet, Crow, and the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes.

The Montana Free Press has a four-part series on The Future of Coal Country: Landscape on the Brink of Change.

• Part I takes readers across the landscape shared by the Northern Cheyenne, Crow and Colstrip residents who live above the United States’ largest coal reserve, and lays out the challenges and uncertainties entangled in envisioning a new energy economy.
• Part II catalogs the unprecedented flood of tax dollars flowing into Montana’s coal country, and the reactions of residents presented with these opportunities in an election year. Billions of dollars in tax incentives, loan guarantees and direct aid to families await takers, but many in southeast Montana feel leery of the complicated processes.
• Part III explores the distinctive cultures and aspirations of the Crow, Colstrip and Northern Cheyenne communities as waves of change buffet traditional coal jobs and introduce new but untested opportunities to join a renewable energy transition.
• Part IV presents a visual tour of Montana’s coal country and the people and places that have grown up around it.

 If you have an interesting link you think is worth sharing, let me know! In the meantime, happy exploring.

Connections

Is anyone besides me obsessed with the New York Times game Connections? 

The rules are simple. The game is not:

• Find groups of four items that share something in common.
• Select four items and tap 'Submit' to check if your guess is correct.
• Each puzzle has exactly one solution. Watch out for words that seem to belong to multiple categories/

Anyway, I found a site where you can make your own Connections-style puzzle, so I had to try it. Can you solve this Montana history-themed puzzle without making any mistakes?