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Classroom of students in newly built St. Benedict's Mission School, White Earth, MN, circa 1895. Image courtesy of Minnesota Reflections.
Education Resources
Interactive curriculum resources designed for K-12 teachers using the Minnesota Reflections collection.
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Pachyderm Training Projects 2008-09
A collection of teaching units created by Minnesota educators. -
A Foot in Two Worlds: Indian Boarding Schools in Minnesota
Pairs images of Minnesota's Indian schools with the words of students and policy-makers around the country. -
History Mysteries
Teaches students how to examine photographs to uncover the story behind the image. -
Immigrants in Minnesota: A Demonstration Project
Uses the topic of immigration in 19th century Minnesota to outline a process for students to analyze primary resources and construct hypotheses.
Minnesota History Curriculum Standards
Rank order of topics in Minnesota history covered by Grades 4-8 and Grades 9-12 and Summary of Minnesota Academic Standards in History and Social Studies for K-12, revised 2004. These tables were originally published in Making History: The Minnesota Digital Library and the K-12 Teaching and Learning Community.
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Minnesota History Standards
(PDF; 204 KB)
Updated July 9, 2007.
Learning from Photography
Bonnie Wilson, who was the photography archivist at the Minnesota Historical Society before retiring in 2005, wrote two essays for Minnesota Reflections when it was new. These essays help students understand the value of photography to historians and teach students how to understand and analyze the information in photographs.