Resources for k–12 educators
Tours
Classes are welcome to come and take a tour of the AHC's facilities. Tours typically take 20–30 minutes and include the main storage area, the second floor loggia, and the reading room.
Working with archival resources
The AHC has activities related to working with archival materials that students can work through in order to become better acquainted with primary source research. These activities teach students how to use archival materials to answer research questions. These activities typically take twenty to sixty minutes to complete. It is common for the activities to be paired with a tour of AHC facilities. Email ahced@uwyo.edu to inquire about archival activities for your class.
National History Day
National History Day engages students in grades 6–12 in the process of discovery and interpretation of historical topics. Students produce dramatic performances, imaginative exhibits, multimedia documentaries and thought-provoking papers based on research related to an annual theme. These projects are then evaluated at local, state, and national competitions. The AHC hosts the state competition, Wyoming History Day, every April. We welcome classes interested in participating in History Day, and can provide instruction in topic exploration and conducting primary reserach.
Lesson plans for popular topics
The Black 14
Heart Mountain Relocation Center
Project Wagon Wheel
Resources for University educators
Classes
The AHC offers Bibliographic Classes to assist students in learning how to use reading room resources and conduct primary research, Topics Classes to introduce students to collection material in our holdings relevant to a particular topic of interest, and Research Classes to assist students in utilizing primary documents and other collection materials for personal or directed research. Email ahced@uwyo.edu to schedule a class with us.
Course/Unit Development Assistance
Many of our staff are faculty and teach regularly at UW. The AHC is happy to provide assistance to instructors wishing to develop full courses or instructional units based on AHC collection materials.
Grants and Fellowships
AHC Teaching and Research Grants offer an opportunity for faculty, staff, and students to pursue independent or collaborative research projects, course development, and symposia that use AHC's resource material. A special award is also available for the dissemination of research and projects. UW students, faculty, academic professionals, staff, and recognized student organizations are all eligible to apply.
Each semester, the AHC also offers undergraduate research awards in the form of a cash prize to the best undergraduate research paper or project based substantially on materials (manuscripts, archives, rare books, photos, maps, audio, film and video, etc.) at the AHC. Nominations should be submitted by faculty members on behalf of their students.
The University of Wyoming has earned its Research Level 1 (R1) status from the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, placing Wyoming's only four-year university with the top research universities in the United States.