Working with Water:
Wisconsin Waterways
Student Reader and Teacher's Guide
Bobbie Malone, Ph.D.,
Jefferson J. Gray, and Anika Fajardo
How has the enormous power of water shaped our state? How have people historically responded to the presence of so much water? These two themes form the core of the third book in the New Badger History series, Working with Water: Wisconsin Waterways. Similar in format to Digging and Discovery: Wisconsin Archaeology and Learning from the Land, Working with Water completes the resource-based trio of student books and teacher materials that effectively integrate Wisconsin's natural and human history.
The eight chapters in Working with Water take students from glaciers to stewardship. In the first chapter, the focus on geography and hydrography gives students the "whys" and "wheres" of Wisconsin's landscape and waterscape. Subsequent chapters examine the way the Great Lakes, the Mississippi River, and our interior waterways served as a transportation network that linked our mid-continental region and its inhabitants-Native people, fur traders, and the European and Euro-American settlers who followed them to the world beyond. Students learn about our rich maritime heritage by exploring shipping and shipbuilding, shipwrecks and lighthouses. The later chapters deal with people whose livelihoods depended on resources from the water and wetlands, such as fishing, ricing, and cranberry cultivation.
Then the emphasis shifts to the industries and locations that rely on water power (lumbering, milling, and papermaking), or the preservative power of ice and its role in the brewing and meat-packing industries as well as the industry of ice harvesting. Unfortunately, these industries brought pollution as well as prosperity. In the final chapter, the book concentrates on recreation and recovery, connecting the history of waterways to today's resorts, tourism, and environmentalism.
Intriguing illustrations of our trademarked badger welcome students to 83 two-color, kid friendly pages. Working with Water contains many historic photographs, maps, original drawings, and informational side bars that clarify the concepts and content.
[Notes From the Field 2002]
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2001 83 pp. 8" x 6 7/8"
76 b/w photos 16 drawings 23 maps
ISBN 0-87020-329-0, Paperback $9.95
Special Classroom Price for 20 or more copies: $7.95 each
Teacher's Guide and Student Materials
With two or three activities provided for each chapter, Working with Water Teacher's Guide and Student Materials is designed to engage students in a more in-depth exploration of the content introduced in the text. These activities, suggested for both individual and small group purposes, demand the use of higher-level thinking skills while integrating a wide range of learning styles, and all have culminating components that can be used for assessment. A large two-color fold-out map of Wisconsin's major watersheds and easily reproducible student pages, including maps and historic photographs, are included in the guide. The 4th Grade Course Guide for Wisconsin History (PDF, 1.2MB) has been updated to provide the links between the content in Working with Water and the Wisconsin Model Academic Standards for Social Studies.
[See Sample Activity](PDF, 590KB)
*Note* In order to read this chapter you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader. If you do not already have this tool, you can find information in our help section.
2001 122 pp. 8 ½" x 11"
29 b/w photos 16 maps 22 charts and interactive student pages
Map: 24 x 32", folded to 8 x 8" and shrink-wrapped with Guide
ISBN 0-87020-331-2 Paperback $24.95
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