University of Wisconsin
Bimodel Botany Bouquet
Gardeners are given an individual plant specimen from a bouquet of local rain garden plants. They group up by their plant type and then make observations together, name the plant, and introduce it to the rest of the class. You then share...
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Ferde Grofe
Students participate in three different activities centered around Ferde Grofe. The different lessons are used to introduce music and the artist to the class. They listen to stories that music tells, and create their own sand painting...
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THE HUMBLE Beginnings of the Hamburger
Students listen to numerous claims concerning the hamburger's origins and then compose an original tall tale on the subject. Students name some tall tales they have heard or read about. Students make books that feature tall tales...
Wisconsin Historical Society
Wisconsin Historical Society: Expression Leads to Repression
An interesting lesson plan from the Wisconsin Historial Society that includes primary source material that shows the anti-German feelings in Wisconsin in World War I.
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History Matters: Get the Rope! Anti German Violence in World War I Era Wisconsin
Read this harrowing account of a German-American farmer whose nativist neighbors suspected his alliegiance to the United States after the country entered the war against Germany in World War I.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Wisconsin: Milwaukee City Hall
Germanic architecture; world's tallest building 1885-1899.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Wisconsin: Turner Hall
Associated with German-American Turners.
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Milwaukee Public Television: The Making of Milwaukee: Ethnic Stories
Many if the early settlers in Milwaukee were of German ancestry. African-Americans also helped settle the area, and even pre-dated its founding. Some of the history of these two groups is presented here.