Folklife Resources for Educators
Materials Related to Montana
There are 4 items in this list. Indivisible Educator's Guide
by Center for Creative Photography http://www.indivisible.org/resources.htm
An educator's guide for K-12 students that combines photography and first-person narratives to explore community life, identity, and civic action (72 p. PDF). Lesson plans are available on taking documentary photographs, collecting oral histories, and analyzing gathered fieldwork documentation. It includes descriptions of twelve community documentation projects undertaken throughout the United States. Created in 2000 in connection with a national documentary project called "Indivisible: Stories of American Community." A selection of slides and an audio cd of excerpted project interviews accompanies the lessons.
Sponsoring Organization: Center for Creative Photography University of Arizona Libraries Tucson AZ 85721-0103
(520) 621-7968 http://www.creativephotography.org/
Other Organizations:
Center for Documentary Studies Duke University Durham NC 27705
(919) 660-3663 http://cds.aas.duke.edu/
A Life in Beads: The Stories a Plains Dress Can Tell
by National Museum of the American Indian http://americanindian.si.edu/education/files/NMAI_lifeinbeads.pdf
Teaching poster for grades 4-6 with accompanying lesson plans and activities that explore the traditional art of dressmaking and dress decoration among women of Native American tribes from the Great Plains region. Through the stories and art of contemporary women from the Assiniboine and Sioux tribes in Montana, students will learn about materials used in the past and today, as well as the cultural values and meanings behind dress decoration. Meets national curriculum standards for Social Studies. (10 p. PDF)
Grade Level: 3-5; 6-8 |
Curriculum: History and Social Studies; Art and Culture |
Resource Type: Lesson plans; Activities; Posters |
Language: English |
Subjects: Decorative arts; Geography; History; Indian women; Montana--Social life and customs; Indians of North America; Sioux Indians; Beadwork; Assiniboine Indians; Dressmaking; Women artists; Clothing and dress; Decoration and ornament; Great Plains--Social life and customs
Geographic locations: Great Plains; United States; Montana |
Sponsoring Organization: National Museum of the American Indian Fourth Street & Independence Avenue, SW Washington DC 20560
(202) 633-6996 http://www.nmai.si.edu/
Cowboy Poets - Teaching Guide
by Paddy Bowman http://www.folkstreams.net/context,276
Teaching guide for grades 10-12 to accompany an excerpt of the film “Cowboy Poets,” created by Kim Shelton in 1988. Fourteen minutes of the 50-minute film are chosen as a focus for the teaching guide. The film excerpt documents Wally McRae, a cowboy poet from southeastern Montana, a third-generation rancher and gentleman-philosopher, who uses his poetic gifts to make personal statements about continuity within the ranching community and the strength of cowboy traditions under siege in the modern world. The teaching guide and film explore the topics of cowboy culture and poetry, family ranch life, environmental conservation, and community resistance to a giant coal corporation in the neighborhood. The entire film is also available as streaming video on folkstreams.net.
Grade Level: 9-12 |
Curriculum: Art and Culture; History and Social Studies; Language Arts |
Resource Type: Activities; Lesson plans; Primary sources; Video recordings |
Language: English |
Subjects: Environmental protection; Educational films; Montana--Social life and customs; Ethnographic films; Family--History; Coal mines and mining; Family--Folklore; Family-owned business enterprises; Cowboys--Poetry; Ranch life
Geographic locations: Montana |
Sponsoring Organization: Folkstreams
http://www.folkstreams.net/
Folklife in the Classroom
by Montana Arts Council http://art.mt.gov/folklife/folklife_classroom.asp
Activities, lesson plans, and background about Montana folk arts and artists. Activities include the topics of "Cowboy Music & Poetry," "Documenting Traditions," "Indian Rawhide Drum Making," and "Quilting Traditions." Site also includes lesson plans, activities, and posters related to individual Montana traditional artists. The artists represent Blackfeet Indian beadwork, knifemaking, wood artistry, and traditional rawhide work from the White Clay People (Gros Ventre) tradition. Each lesson plan is in a 5 p. PDF format. Lesson plans are correlated to Montana Standards for Arts.
Grade Level: 3-5; 6-8; 9-12 |
Curriculum: Music; Language Arts; History and Social Studies; Art and Culture |
Resource Type: Lesson plans; Activities; Posters |
Language: English |
Subjects: Gros Ventre Indians; Blackfeet Indians; Drum making; Knife making; Hides and skins; Beadwork; Cowboys--Poetry; Quilting; Folklore--Fieldwork; Montana--Social life and customs; Folk art; Folk artists; Cowboys--Songs and music; Music; Musical instruments; Indians of North America; Decorative arts; Needlework
Geographic locations: Montana |
Sponsoring Organization: Montana Arts Council 830 N Warren Street Helena MT 59620
(406) 444-6430 http://art.mt.gov/default.asp
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