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Badger History Bulletin - Fall 2000

View the complete Fall 2000 Issue of Badger History Bulletin (PDF, 750KB)

Table of Contents

We're Number One! (Page 1)
Wisconsin Firsts Poster

Essay: October Lessons by Karen Stout of the Wisconsin Education Association Council (Page 2)
Teachers, continuing education, and academic standards

Archiving Classroom History: The KIDS 2000-2001 Collection (Page 3)
A collection of primary sources created by Wisconsin youth today about themselves and their lives

Teaching with Material Culture: McCormick Posters Go Beyond Tractors (Pages 4-6)
Using material culture from the McCormick International Harvester Collection in the classroom to teach history

Lesson Plans

  • Elementary: Back the the Future: Field Trip to Old World Wisconsin (Pages 7-8)
    A field trip to Old World Wisconsin is the culmination of a year-long program.
  • Secondary: Instruments of Change: Using the McCormick International Harvester Poster Collection in the Classroom (Pages 9-10)
    In this lesson plan, students will be able to use a poster from the McCormick-International Harvester Poster Collection in order to better understand how technology was changing the lives of farmers during this period.

The Local Scene: Local History: When Local History Enters the Classroom (Page 11)
Using local newspapers, photographs and other documents to excite and inspire students in the study of history

Reviews

  • Stand the Storm, Video reviewed by David Powell (Page 12)
    Joshua Glover (escaped slave) Sherman Booth (publisher of the Waukesha) and the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 in Wisconsin
  • Public Sculpture in Wisconsin: An Atlas of Outdoor Monuments, Memorials, and Masterpieces in the Badger State, Book reviewed by Martin Rayala (Pages 13-14)
    "A valuable field-guide to public artwork across the state from some of the earliest indigenous examples to around 1998 when Wisconsin celebrated its sesquicentennial."

 

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