The
Wisconsin Primary Sources is a pack of 20 primary source documents that are relevant to the history in Wisconsin. We have created a
FREE Online Teacher’s Guide for Primary Sources to help you to teach primary sources more effectively and use creative strategies for integrating primary source materials into your classroom. This
FREE Online Teacher's Guide for Primary Sources is 15 pages. It includes teacher tools, student handouts, and student worksheets. Click
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The Wisconsin Primary Sources will help your students build common core skills including:
• Analysis
• Critical Thinking
• Point of View
• Compare and Contrast
• Order of Events
• And Much More!
Perfect for gallery walks and literature circles! Great research and reference materials!
The 20
Wisconsin Primary Sources are:
1. Illustration of Sauk Chief Black Hawk – Indian leader during Black Hawk War of 1832
2. Map of Wisconsin listing city and county populations – 1865
3. Painting entitled Père Marquette and the Indians – 1869
4. Photograph of Old Abe, the bald eagle mascot of the 8th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment in the Civil War – circa 1870
5. Print of LaCrosse, Wisconsin – showing boat traffic on the Mississippi River – 1873
6. Engraving depicting logging in northern Wisconsin – 1885
7. Advertisement for Sheboygan Boot & Shoe Co. – featuring a scene at a Native American camp – circa 1891
8. Illustration showing immigrants to Milwaukee resisting the transfer of smallpox patients to an isolation hospital – 1894
9. Photograph of Wisconsin Governor Robert M. La Follette, Sr., addressing Chautauqua assembly in Illinois – circa 1905
10. Photograph of U.S. census-taker (seated) and several Winnebago Indians in front of a tent – 1910
11. Portrait of women's rights activist Carrie Chapman Catt – Wisconsin native who worked to pass the 19th Amendment granting women the right to vote – 1914 photo
12. Photograph of members of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) working with the Soil Conservation Service – Vernon County, Wisconsin – 1939
13. Postcard featuring prize-winning cheese produced by Steve's Cheese Co., Denmark, Wisconsin – Wisconsin is leading cheese-producing state in U.S. – circa 1940
14. Photograph of female Wisconsin workers checking parts of gasoline trailers for U.S. Air Force during WWII – example of women working as part of war effort – 1943
15. Cartoon depicting Joseph McCarthy challenging Robert M. La Follette, Jr., for U.S. Senator in the 1946 Republican primary in Wisconsin
16. Photograph of Paul Bunyan and Babe statues in Eau Claire, Wisconsin – circa 1980
17. Photograph of the End of the Trail statue in Waupun, Wisconsin – created as a tribute to the American Indian – circa 1980
18. Photograph of replica of "The Little House in the Big Woods" at the Laura Ingalls Wilder House – Pepin, Wisconsin – circa 2000
19. Population density map of Wisconsin – 2010
20. Photograph of steps on side of platform mound at Aztalan State Park in Aztalan, Wisconsin – 2010
Your students will:
- think critically and analytically, interpret events, and question various perspectives of history.
- participate in active learning by creating their own interpretations instead of memorizing facts and a writer's interpretations.
- integrate and evaluate information provided in diverse media formats to deepen their understanding of historical events.
- experience a more relevant and meaningful learning experience.
Each primary resource is printed on sturdy 8.5" X 11" cardstock.