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| Help your students think like archaeologists with The Mammoth Mystery interactive resource. |
| Use the 'History and Critical Thinking Handbook" to help guide your students to deeper and more meaningful connections to the past. |
| Print these free paper dolls based on the books Rascal and Caddie Woodlawn to find out about kids lives in Wisconsin over 100 years ago. |
| Whiteboard Files |
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| Here are links to interactive whiteboard resources that align to each chapter of "Wisconsin: Our State, Our Story." |
| Introduce students to Freedom Summer with this overview of key events. Each slide contains images of original documents and notes to help guide discussion |
| Teaching Materials |
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| Teaching materials for use with the 2nd Edition of Patty Lowe's "Indian Nations of Wisconsin." |
| Supplemental teaching materials for 'Native People of Wisconsin' |
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| Interactive whiteboard resources designed for use with Patty Loew's "Native People of Wisconsin" for the 4th grade classroom. |
| Borrow a traveling exhibit about community life in a Native American village 500 years ago. |
| from Tools for Teaching the History of Civil Rights in Milwaukee and the Nation (Madison, WI: Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2015) |
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| Learn about the 1832 conflict between the Sauk and Fox Indians and American troops that ended with the surrender of Black Hawk |
| Use census records to study immigration to Wisconsin and living conditions in the mid-19th century |
| Learn about life on the frontier in Wisconsin in 1851, as recounted in guides designed to attract immigrants to the state from Europe. |
| Learn to use primary source materials to teach students about the abolitionist movement in Wisconsin in the 1850s. |
| Use advertising posters to study technological change in American agriculture in the 19th century |
| La Follette and the Progressive Era |
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| Get curriculum suggestions for teaching about Progressive Era reforms in Wisconsin. |
| Teach students to use census population schedules in researching life in Wisconsin communities. |
| Conflict on the Homefront: Wisconsin During World War I |
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| Learn more about the pre-WWI peace movement by having students take a closer look at Julia Grace Wales |
| Teach students to conduct oral history interviews with Wisconsin Hmong and how to use oral histories for research |
| Evaluate documents representing opposing perspectives on Japanese American Internment and work as a class to understand primary source analysis |
| Bring the museum experience to your classroom! |
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| Onsite object based education units for grade bands K-2 and 3-5 |
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