Environmental history inquiry kit

What is this?

This is a theme-based inquiry kit, based on our inspiration from Maryland. The two layouts are different options for how the items could look on the page. The full page could include items around a theme (e.g. environmantal history), plus interpretive content and explanations for educators.

Layout 1: images

a large number of cut logs floating in Priest Lake
An image of Wallace burning from the U of I's Big Burn Collection. The Big Burn Collection is an online exhibit of materials related to the 'Big Burn' fires of 1910 that devastated much of Northern Idaho and Northwest Montana. The collection includes photographs, documents, first-person accounts, and oral histories pertaining to the fires and the local and national responses to them.
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An image of logs stored in Priest Lake from the Marylyn Cork Priest River Historical Collection. This ongoing collection features over 500 images documenting the people, industries, and daily life of Priest River and the surrounding communities in Bonner County from the nearly 1,800 images in the Marylyn Cork collection. Researchers interested in learning more about the collection or gaining reproduction access to specific images should contact the Priest River Library, where the physical collection is housed.
horses
An image of horses pulling logs from a U of I digital project titled Using Horses for Logging in 20th Century Potlatch. This project aims to educate the public on not only the history of horses in logging communities in the Pacific Northwest, but also the importance of using horses for their intended purpose.

Layout 2: cards

Big Burn Collection

An image of Wallace burning from the U of I’s Big Burn Collection. The Big Burn Collection is an online exhibit of materials related to the ‘Big Burn’ fires of 1910 that devastated much of Northern Idaho and Northwest Montana. The collection includes photographs, documents, first-person accounts, and oral histories pertaining to the fires and the local and national responses to them.

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Standards

  • 5.SS.1.11 Describe the impact of scientific and technological advances on westward expansion including but not limited to the cotton gin, the reaper, the steam engine, and steam locomotive.
  • 5.SS.1.11 Describe the impact of scientific and technological advances on westward expansion including but not limited to the cotton gin, the reaper, the steam engine, and steam locomotive.
  • 4.SS.1.2.2 Describe the role of fur trading and the discovery of gold and silver in the settlement of Idaho