For Teachers
Grants for Digital Field Trips
With education emphasizing distance learning, destination sites want to reach students while, at the same time, teachers are preparing online lessons that may have to replace field trips and site visits. The MSNHA has opened a special grants round to help fund digital site-specific educational content. Organizations within the MSNHA partnering with any teacher in an elementary or secondary school in Colbert, Franklin, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone, or Morgan county are eligible to apply. The maximum grant award is $1,200. Click the button below for more information and the application form.
Transportation Grants for Field Trips
Are you a teacher planning a field trip to one of MSNHA’s cultural or historical sites? Then think about applying for one of our field-trip grants to help fund transportation costs. Any teacher in an elementary or secondary school in Colbert, Franklin, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone, and Morgan is eligible to apply. The maximum field-trip grant amount is $200. Click this button below for more information and the application form.
Resources to Help Teach History
Teachers, let us help you teach your students about local history! The six MSNHA counties are full of fascinating and significant stories. To help discover, preserve and share those stories, we offer educational resources and tools highlighting the culture and history of northwest Alabama. Click on the links below for educator packets and other publications that MSNHA staff and students from the University of North Alabama Public History Center have developed. We also have coloring pages, an activity sheet, and a map for collecting stamps for the Passport to Your National Parks program.
You can help other local teachers, too. Do you have additional lesson plans and resources highlighting history and heritage in Colbert, Franklin, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone, and Morgan counties you’d be willing to share? Email msnha.una.edu.
In addition, MSNHA staff and UNA public history students can help museums and historic sites across our region preserve and interpret their collections. If you are interested in partnering with the MSNHA and UNA students to develop materials specific to your site, email us at msnha.una.edu.
Educators’ Packets
- Lawrence County Educator’s Resource Packet
- Florence Indian Mound Educator’s Resource Packet
- Shoals Black History Educator’s Resource Packet
- Women of the MSNHA Educator’s Resource Packet
- Overton Farm and Frontier Life in Alabama
- Overton Farm Powerpoint
- Belle Mont Educator’s Resource Packet
- Native Americans in Northwest Alabama Educator’s Resource Packet
- Muscle Shoals Sound Studio Educator’s Resource Packet
- Wildlife and Habitats of the Tennessee River
- The People of the Tennessee River
- Pond Spring, Home of Gen. Joe Wheeler
- W.C. Handy Birthplace, Museum and Library
- Ivy Green, Helen Keller Birthplace
- Natchez Trace Parkway, “Exploring the American Indian Side of the Story: The War of 1812”
- The Town of Somerville
- Alabama Veterans Museum and Archives
- Architecture Styles in the MSNHA
- PowerPoint for Architecture Styles in the MSNHA
- The TC&D Railroad
- PowerPoint for the TC&D Railroad
- Archaeological Artifacts of the MSNHA
- Muscle Shoals Music Educator’s Resource Packet
