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| National History Day Research |
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| Prepare your students for their research fieldtrip to the Wisconsin Historical Society Library and Archives |
| Use the 'History and Critical Thinking Handbook" to help guide your students to deeper and more meaningful connections to the past. |
| Use census records to study immigration to Wisconsin and living conditions in the mid-19th century |
| Combine geography and map skills with reading, math, and problem-solving in this lesson plan |
| Tips for Connecting with Local Educators |
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| Connecting local history with local educators |
| Learn more about life in a lumber camp by using primary sources |
| Use a local cemetery to teach students about community history as well as the historical information that can be found at a cemetery |
| Wisconsin and the Civil War: Camp Randall |
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| Use the letters of Civil War solders to take a closer look at Camp Randall and Wisconsin's role in the Civil War |
| Using historic and current maps, students will identify change over time in Wisconsin communities in this lesson |
| Wisconsin and the Civil War |
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| Use the 1862 Civil War Draft Riots to examine differing opinions on the Civil War in Wisconsin |
| Examine the oral history and migration experiences of Rubie Bond, an African-American resident of Beloit featured on Wisconsin Public Television |
| Learn to use primary source materials to teach students about the abolitionist movement in Wisconsin in the 1850s. |
| Evaluate documents representing opposing perspectives on Japanese American Internment and work as a class to understand primary source analysis |
| Historian, Activist and Author |
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| Discover the history of historian, activist and author Mildred Fish-Harnack. |
| Packing a traveler's trunk offers students the opportunity to take a closer look at the immigrant experience in this lesson |
| Help students understand the physical design and compostion of their community |
| Discover the history of Father James Groppi, the Catholic priest who led fought for justice in Milwaukee's Inner Core. |
| Discover the story of Vel Phillips, the first African American woman to become a judge in Wisconsin. |
| Wisconsin and the Civil War |
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| Use the writing of Marcus "Brick" Pomeroy to examine different opinions on the Civil War |
| Teach students to use census population schedules in researching life in Wisconsin communities. |
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