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| Packing a traveler's trunk offers students the opportunity to take a closer look at the immigrant experience in this lesson |
| Examine the oral history and migration experiences of Rubie Bond, an African-American resident of Beloit featured on Wisconsin Public Television |
| La Follette and the Progressive Era |
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| Get curriculum suggestions for teaching about Progressive Era reforms in Wisconsin |
| Conflict on the Homefront: Wisconsin During World War I |
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| Learn more about Victory Berger by examing 1917 editorial selections from his newspaper, Milwaukee Leader |
| Conflict on the Homefront: Wisconsin During World War I |
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| Use WWI posters to learn more about WWI as well as the use of this media in building support for the war |
| Conflict on the Homefront: Wisconsin During World War I |
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| The newspaper articles, photos, and letters in this section are samples of the rampant anti-German hysteria in Wisconsin during World War I |
| Supplemental materials for the 4th-grade textbook, 'Wisconsin: Our State Our Story' |
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| Chapter 8 supplemental materials for the 4th-grade textbook, 'Wisconsin: Our State Our Story' |
| Supplemental materials for the 4th-grade textbook, 'Wisconsin: Our State Our Story' |
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| Chapter 9 supplemental materials for the 4th-grade textbook, 'Wisconsin: Our State Our Story' |
| Supplemental materials for the 4th-grade textbook, 'Wisconsin: Our State Our Story' |
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| Chapter 11 supplemental materials for the 4th grade textbook, '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 |
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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. |
| 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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| 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 |
| Evaluate documents representing opposing perspectives on Japanese American Internment and work as a class to understand primary source analysis |
| Read the history of Pleasant Ridge, Wisconsin, a unique a community developed by formerly enslaved African American slaves in the mid-19th century. |
| Read about "allotment," which was the Indian policy of the U.S. government from 1887-1934; also called the Dawes Act. |
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