A brand new fourth-grade scholar textbook printed by the Montana Historic Society, “Montana: A Historical past of Our Residence,” is being supplied to rural colleges by means of varied grants.
The 96-page textbook gives a fast tour by means of 13,000 years of Montana historical past. College students will find out about Montana’s 12 tribal nations and 7 reservations.
The textbook additionally gives perception into the immigrants who transfer to Montana within the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in addition to the trapping, mining, logging, farming and ranching industries that introduced them to Montana.
A grant from the Steele-Reese Basis will make it so colleges greater than 40 miles from an city heart (outlined as Billings, Bozeman, Butte, Nice Falls, Helena, Kalispell and Missoula) are eligible to use for funds to reimburse the price of buying the textbooks. The college might be answerable for transport prices.
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Chosen colleges might be required to submit receipts displaying their buy to the Montana Historic Society for reimbursement.
To use, college officers want to finish their functions by midnight on Aug. 31. Purposes will be discovered at bit.ly/3PWhVp2.
MTHS will evaluate functions and announce choice by Sept. 12. If there are extra requests that may be fulfilled, MTHS will give choice to small colleges to make it possible for essentially the most rural colleges are served first. A secondary criterion might be what number of hours the instructor will dedicate to Montana historical past.
For extra data, contact Kohl at 406-444-4740 or mkohl@mt.gov.