Montana Teacher Links

General:

OPI Montana Office of Public Instruction

Montana State Library

Montana Teachers.Net
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Montana State University Extension Service

The Arts:
The Art Mobile of Montana- “Art On Wheels”
This traveling program comes right to your door with a van full of an original exhibit of quality art works.  Schools that schedule this service receive an interactive presentation of the art, followed by art lessons.  Several fine art lessons are available, taught by a professional art educator with focus on art fundamentals and individual expression.  The Art Mobile is available during school hours, after school, and evenings.  Continuing education for teachers is available while the Art Mobile is on site.  Lessons are aligned with the Montana Performance Standards for the Arts.  The Art Mobile (a Non-Profit organization) is supported in part by a grant from the Montana Arts Council, an agency of State government and by the National Endowment for the Arts.
This year the Art Mobile exhibit includes 22 works of art, including 12 prints by Native American artists who were commissioned by the Missoula Art Museum to make prints reflecting upon the Lewis & Clark expedition.  For information on the Art Mobile programs, contact Sara Colburn at 406-693-2999 or scolburn@bmt.net.

Holter Museum of Arts
Seeking to nurture the creative spirit and make the visual arts accessible to all, the Holter is committed to promoting participation through outreach, innovative educational programming, and collaboration with other organizations.   The Holter Museum of Art serves Montana and neighboring states with quality visual arts exhibitions.  The program includes all media, brings national and international exhibits into the region, and provides a much needed venue for local and regional artists.  (There is a special teacher resources link on the site).

 Montana Arts Council
This site provides arts resources for K-12 teachers.  The current professional development offering is an Arts Education Institute for K-12 Teachers June 30-July 2, 2003.  The Montana Arts Council publishes "State of the Arts" six times a year, which is free to Montana residents.  The Arts Improve Education lists several benefits the arts bring to education.

Archie Bray Foundation

Indian Education:
For Books and other Resources on Indian Education please contact:
    Jon Andrews
        406-459-1777
        Box 1525
        Helena MT, 59601

Science:
Zoo Montana

Social Studies:
The Montana Historical Society

The Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center
A variety of tours are available through the center as well as educational trunks.

Center for the Rocky Mountain West
The Center for the Rocky Mountain West is a regional studies and public policy center at The University of Montana in Missoula. The Center gathers leading scholars, public policy experts, and students to study the past and help shape the future of this unique region. Through its three regional program areas of policy, humanities, and economy, the Center offers resources - such as courses, lectures, scholarship, research, conferences and publications - that help foster a sense of regional identity as well as an understanding of shared regional challenges and opportunities.

Fort Benton.com

Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site

Bear Paw Battlefield, Nez Perce National Historical Park
If you are a teacher searching for classroom materials, a student doing research, or a person looking for a place to spend some time, have some fun and learn in the process, LearnNPS is for you. Here you'll find curriculum, fun and games, a guide to park Junior Ranger programs and a host of other fun and educational media created by the National Park Service and our partners. Come on in and experience your America in a new way.

Pioneer Museum
Please take some time to look our website to familiarize yourselves with our museum. When you visit our museum, you will see many objects. These objects all tell a story. Together they tell a story about Bozeman and the History and Heritage of our community.

Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument
Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument is the site of the June 25, 1876 battle between the U.S. Army's seventh cavalry, guided by Crow and Arikara scouts, and several bands of Lakota Sioux, Cheyenne, and Arapaho. This website offers virtual tours and much more.

Historic Virginia and Nevada Cities
Virginia City and Nevada City lie along Alder Gulch, the site of the richest placer gold strike in the Rocky Mountains. During the first three seasons in the early 1860s, an estimated $30 million worth of gold was removed from the gulch, and during subsequent years gold has continued to be extracted from placer and lode mines. Virginia City is today considered the best- preserved example of the many placer mining camps that flourished during the 1860s throughout the Rocky Mountain West. It provides an exceptional sample of commercial architecture of the mid-nineteenth century.

Crazy Mountain Museum
The Crazy Mountain Museum is a historical museum featuring exhibits that reflect the history of Sweet Grass County and the surrounding area. The museum is maintained by the Sweet Grass Museum Society, a non-profit organization. The Sweet Grass Museum Society has its roots in the Pioneer Society founded in the early 1900's. A permanent home was built and completed 1992 and named Crazy Mountain Museum.

Conrad Mansion
We offer school tours at the Conrad Mansion for children grades 1-12. The tours will be tailored to the students' learning.

Kleffner Ranch
The Kleffner Ranch, a part of Montana's early history, was established in the late 1880's by William Child, an early Montana entrepreneur as his dream ranch and country estate. William Child, used his fortune made in mining investments to establish what is now the Kleffner Ranch as the White Face Ranch in 1886. He spared no expense, bringing in Italian craftsmen and stonemasons to build the unique buildings on this picturesque setting in the Rocky Mountains.

Museum of the Rockies

Helena Independent Record
From Ekalaka to Yaak, we know many of you ill want to prepare students for Helena visits during the 90-day session; others will follow specific bills or actions for their own interests or as class assignments. We want to offer you the perfect venue for your legislative engagement. It’s the Web site and Legislative homepage of the Independent Record in Helena, the newspaper with the best legislative reporting in the state. It’s free, it’s organized, it’s comprehensive and it’s updated each night at midnight. Please log on to and give us a try. At the top right of the home page you’ll see a small picture of the State Capitol with the name “Montana in Session.” Click there and you’re home free. Our Web site is where Gov. Brian Schweitzer says he visits first thing each morning (at about 4 a.m.) for the best and earliest Web news update in the state. We’d love to have you use us as your primary state and legislative news resource as well. Get to know our four Lee State Bureau reporters, the Helena AP writers and the Independent Record staggers covering the session each day. You’ll grow to respect them, because they’re legislative and state government specialists. Many legislators go to our stories each morning to find out what’s happening outside their own conference or committee activities. If you decide to use our site, please drop us a note and let us know what you think. We’d love to have your feedback Power Block, Suite 516, Seven West Sixth Avenue, Helena, MT 59601 - (406) 447-4218