Badger History Bulletin
One Stop Shopping: Wisconsin History and Geography Spring 2000
Interested in a resource that will let you "double-dip" and address both history and geography standards in the upper elementary-and middle-school classroom? Mapping Wisconsin History: Teacher's Guide and Student Materials is coming next fall. The Wisconsin Cartographers' Guild, authors and designers of Wisconsin's Past and Present: A Historical Atlas, have teamed with Bobbie Malone to create these materials. Mapping Wisconsin History contains seven full-color transparency base maps-Physical Features, Wisconsin Indian Treaty Lands, European groups, Mining and Shipping, Early Vegetation, Wisconsin Crops, and Dairyland-and an accompanying book of activities, student worksheets, and black-and-white reproducible maps (to create overlay transparencies or student maps). These materials give students the opportunity to work directly with maps that relate to Wisconsin history. Along with the accompanying worksheets, teachers will find background information, relevant vocabulary, lesson ideas, and suggestions for further reading-all developed to enhance Wisconsin history.
Mapping Wisconsin History is not intended to be used from cover to cover sequentially, but its contents should provide the necessary links between place and history, reinforcing geography and map skills, and relating these to specific eras and events in the state's past. The eight chapters are organized thematically: Landscape, Wisconsin Indians, Migration and Settlement, Mining, Cities and Counties, Timber, Agriculture, and Industry (including Tourism) and Transportation. Within each chapter, teachers will have a variety of maps and activities from which to pick and choose. For example, in the chapter on Wisconsin Indians, along with the color transparency of Wisconsin Indian Treaty Lands, you'll find the following graphic materials: maps of Early Wisconsin Indian Cultures, Wisconsin Indian Treaty Lands, Wisconsin Indian Removals, and Wisconsin Indian Lands Today. There are also student worksheets about effigy mounds and treaty lands. The variety of materials offer teachers maximum flexibility in supplementing the classroom social studies curriculum. For teachers who desire additional background information, each chapter references related pages in Wisconsin's Past and Present. For teachers who wish to connect the mapping exercises to other OSS publications, the relevant materials are also listed at the end of the text.
We will be publishing Mapping Wisconsin History for use in the fall semester of 2000-2001.
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