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=Where does this fit?=

Here are links to a suggested outline, into which you can plug “units” you have developed for teaching Montana history in Fourth Grade. It is both “suggested” and an “outline” which means if you have found some other organizational framework useful in your teaching, please feel free to work with this as a guide to share what you have.

The basis for this outline is the Montana Historical Society’s textbook on Montana history: Montana: Stories of the Land. This is deliberate. Although the textbook is designed for use above the fourth grade level, it provides balanced and thorough coverage of the state’s history. Indeed, we recommend you purchase a copy (or have your school purchase a copy) and use it as an overarching resources in your teaching. Early on the title also provides an opportunity to explore what the word “story” means in teaching history. Students, as Montanans, will have their own stories to add. Compilation of those stories, added to stories of others, provides an account of what Montana is today.


 * Outline 1: Montana: Where Land Writes History
 * Outline 2: People of the Dog Days
 * Outline 3: From Dog Days to Horse Warriors
 * Outline 4: Newcomers Explore the Region: European & United States Designs
 * Outline 5: Fur Trade: Beaver, Bison & Black Robes
 * Outline 6: Gold and Silver Booms
 * Outline 7: Two Worlds Collide
 * Outline 8: Livestock and the Open Range
 * Outline 9: Railroads Link Montana to the Nation
 * Outline 10: Politics and Copper Kings
 * Outline 11: Early Reservation years
 * Outline 12: Logging in the “High Lonesome”
 * Outline 13: Homesteading this Dry Land
 * Outline 14: Urban Montana
 * Outline 15: Progressive Montana
 * Outline 16: World War I
 * Outline 17: Automobile
 * Outline 18: Great Depression
 * Outline 19: World War II
 * Outline 20: New Montana
 * Outline 21: 1972 Constitution
 * Outline 22: A New Montana