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Find even more activities for your classroom in our Student Activity Guide

Here you'll find additional activities that align to each chapter of "Wisconsin: Our State, Our Story." The activities vary by complexity and classroom grouping and go above and beyond the reproducible worksheets and other cross-curricular activities available in the Student Activity Guide.

Each chapter has a Table of Contents PDF that provides an overview for each activity within it.

We hope this content provides you with more versatility as you teach the history of Wisconsin. To learn more about the textbook, see About the Book.

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• Chapter 1 - All Activities: Connecting to Our State's Story   (3 pages, 295 KB)
  • Chapter 1 - Additional Activities Table of Contents   (1 page, 277 KB)
  • Activity 1-1: Primary or Secondary   (2 pages, 295 KB)
• Chapter 2 - All Activities: Wisconsin: A Place with a Past   (25 pages, 1.8 MB)
  • Chapter 2 - Additional Activities Table of Contents   (2 pages, 294 KB)
  • Activity 2-1: Your Cosmic Address   (3 pages, 350 KB)
  • Activity 2-2: County, Country, or Continent   (3 pages, 305 KB)
  • Activity 2-3: A Wisconsin Puzzle   (9 pages, 354 KB)
  • Activity 2-4: Where Would You Like to Live?   (8 pages, 1.6 MB)
• Chapter 3 - All Activities: Wisconsin's First People   (17 pages, 678 KB)
  • Chapter 3 - Additional Activities Table of Contents   (1 page, 282 KB)
  • Activity 3-1: Paleo-Indian Spear Points   (5 pages, 386 KB)
  • Activity 3-2: Effigy Mounds   (11 pages, 581 KB)
• Chapter 4 - All Activities: The Fur Trade Era: Exploration and Exchange in Wisconsin   (20 pages, 593 KB)
  • Chapter 4 - Additional Activities Table of Contents   (2 pages, 288 KB)
  • Activity 4-1: Eating off the Land   (6 pages, 329 KB)
  • Activity 4-2: Making a Birchbark Canoe   (4 pages, 346 KB)
  • Activity 4-3: Wisconsin Travel: Then and Now   (8 pages, 100 KB)
• Chapter 5 - All Activities: Becoming Wisconsin: From Indian Lands to Statehood   (15 pages, 100 KB)
  • Chapter 5 - Additional Activities Table of Contents   (1 page, 100 KB)
  • Activity 5-1: Whose Land? A Story of Black Hawk   (12 pages, 100 KB)
  • Activity 5-2: Government Word Sort   (2 pages, 100 KB)
• Chapter 6 - All Activities: They Came to Wisconsin and They're Still Coming: Immigration and Settlement   (12 pages, 100 KB)
  • Chapter 6 - Additional Activities Table of Contents   (1 page, 100 KB)
  • Activity 6-1: John Kroehnke's Journey on the Erie Canal   (5 pages, 100 KB)
  • Activity 6-2: Cris Plata Scrapbook   (6 pages, 100 KB)
• Chapter 7 - All Activities: Wisconsin and the Civil War   (11 pages, 100 KB)
  • Chapter 7 - Additional Activities Table of Contents   (1 page, 100 KB)
  • Activity 7-1: Reading a Fugitive Slave Document   (3 pages, 100 KB)
  • Activity 7-2: Comparing Recruiting Posters   (6 pages, 100 KB)
• Chapter 8 - All Activities: Lead, Soil, and Saw Dust, 1820–1914   (17 pages, 100 KB)
  • Chapter 8 - Additional Activities Table of Contents   (1 page, 100 KB)
  • Activity 8-1: The Luetscher Farm: Figuring Out a Farm Type   (4 pages, 100 KB)
  • Activity 8-2: Learning from the Census   (6 pages, 100 KB)
  • Activity 8-3: Learning from a Logger   (5 pages, 100 KB)
• Chapter 9 - All Activities: Transportation and Industry Change Wisconsin   (7 pages, 100 KB)
  • Chapter 9 - Additional Activities Table of Contents   (1 page, 100 KB)
  • Activity 9-1: New Industries and Old   (4 pages, 100 KB)
  • Activity 9-2: Political Cartoons   (2 pages, 100 KB)
• Chapter 10 - All Activities: Good Times, Hard Times, and Better Times   (33 pages, 100 KB)
  • Chapter 10 - Additional Activities Table of Contents   (1 page, 100 KB)
  • Activity 10-1: We're All Doing Our Part: A Wisconsin Family During World War II   (17 pages, 100 KB)
  • Activity 10-2: "Back to Work" and Wisconsin's State Parks   (14 pages, 100 KB)
• Chapter 11 - All Activities: New Opportunities, New Challenges   (11 pages, 100 KB)
  • Chapter 11 - Additional Activities Table of Contents   (1 page, 100 KB)
  • Activity 11-1: Indian Spearfishing   (5 pages, 100 KB)
  • Activity 11-2: Aldo Leopold Nature Writing Journal   (4 pages, 100 KB)

Learn more about the textbook

Our textbook inservice webcasts explain the "Thinking Like a Historian" methodology, the scope and standard components of each chapter, the Teacher's Edition and the Student Activity Guide.