Women's History Month Is Just around the Corner:

Webinar on Indigenous Women

Attend the OPI IEFA webinar on March 3^rd at 4:00 p.m. where we will be sharing IEFA resources to support instruction about Indigenous women. Educators can receive one renewal unit for attending the webinar. 

Zoom link:  https://mt-gov.zoom.us/j/88561388687?pwd=pyP4AX3RQlPiY1y1v3257utTIkbLS2.1 

Resources from MTHS

MTHS has several lesson plans and other resources on focused on women's history.

Here are a few of my favorites: 

• Montana Women at Work: Clothesline Timeline Lesson Plan (Designed for grades 4-12) This primary-source based lesson asks students to analyze historic photographs to draw conclusions about women and work from the 1870s through the 2010s. Students will discover that Montana women have always worked, but that discrimination, cultural expectations, and changing technology have influenced the types of work women undertook. 
• Women and Sports: Tracking Change Over Time (Designed for grades 4-8) In this lesson aligned to both Common Core ELA and Math standards, students learn about how Title IX (a federal civil rights law enacted in 1972 that prohibits sex discrimination in education) changed girls’ opportunities to participate in school sports by collecting and analyzing the data to look at change in women’s sports participation over time.
• Ordinary People Do Extraordinary Things! Connecting Biography to Larger Social Themes Lesson Plan (Designed for grades 8-12) This lesson uses essays published on the Montana Women’s History website to help students explore how ordinary people’s lives intersect with larger historical events and trends and to investigate how people’s choices impact their communities. After analyzing two essays on American Indian women from the Montana Women’s History website, students are asked to conduct interviews with people in their own community to learn about how that person has chosen to shape the world around him or her.
• Girl from the Gulches: The Story of Mary Ronan Study Guide (Designed for students 6-10). This study guide includes everything you need to teach Girl from the Gulches: The Story of Mary Ronan. Set in the second half of the nineteenth century, this highly readable 222-page memoir details Mary Sheehan Ronan’s journey across the Great Plains, her childhood on the Colorado and Montana mining frontiers, her ascent to young womanhood in Southern California, her return to Montana as a young bride, and her life on the Flathead Indian Reservation as the wife of an Indian agent. Book One, which provides a child’s-eye view of the mining frontier, is available to download as a PDF (Lexile Level 1180L). Classroom sets of Girl from the Gulches can be purchased from the Montana Historical Society Store by calling (406)-444-2890.

And of course, check out Montana Women's History Website for short essays, PDFs of journal articles and other materials.

P.S. Space is still available for those who want to attend the March 16-17 in-person PD in Dickinson, North Dakota, on Evaluating Student Argumentation in Historical Research. Travel stipends and renewal units provided. Learn more and find link to apply.