Wisconsin curriculum resources available from the ECB
Wisconsin Hometown Stories | Cultural Horizons of Wisconsin | Investigating Wisconsin History
Exploring Wisconsin our Home | The New Dawn of Tradition: A Wisconsin Powwow
Wisconsin: Celebrating People, Place and Past | Digital Wisconsin
Wisconsin Hometown Stories
The Hometown Stories Web site's offer educational materials useful for teachers throughout the state of Wisconsin. Designed in collaboration with a group of educators from each specific area, these resources include streaming video, photo libraries,, lesson plans, and other cross-curricular materials to help Wisconsin educators meet and exceed the Model Academic Standards.
Visit the websites:
Hometown Stories Green Bay | Hometown Stories La Crosse
Cultural Horizons of Wisconsin
This multimedia instructional package, a
10-program video series, CD-ROM, and teacher guide — about the cultural heritage and diversity of Wisconsin, focuses on the present day. (Designed for grades 4 through 6) Web site
Investigating Wisconsin History
This 12-part video series features a host who travels across the state to solve mysteries about Wisconsin history. Maps, photos, old film, diaries, oral history, artifacts, re-enactments, and the landscape help students learn more about Wisconsin's past. Student-written "History Mysteries" are featured on the site.
Exploring Wisconsin Our Home
Explore Wisconsin geography with this award-winning 14-program video series
for fourth-grade students. The Web site provides geography links, activities for students and maps
to download for classroom use.
Visit the Web site
New Dawn of Tradition: A Wisconsin Powwow
Designed to support fourth- and fifth-grade study of Wisconsin history and culture, this
15-minute instructional television program was recorded in digital format for eventual use on high-definition television (HDTV). It also is broadcast in analog format, enabling current television sets to receive it. The Web site includes video clips from the powwow not included in the TV program, an interactive map of Wisconsin tribes, and more. Visit the Web site
WISCONSIN: Celebrating People, Place and Past
The Wisconsin: Celebrating People, Place and Past Web site will lead you to a wealth of online resources about Wisconsin.
We have pre-selected Web sites with information for students on Wisconsin land, people, work, recreation, government and more.
Digital Wisconsin DVD-ROM
This resource-rich digital media library includes all three full instructional TV series about Wisconsin: Cultural Horizons, Exploring Wisconsin Our Home, and Investigating Wisconsin History. Additional resources include unabridged teacher guides, focus questions and video clips, related internet links, and teaching plans incorporating Digital Wisconsin into 3-12 instruction.
Note: this DVD runs only on PC computers with Internet Explorer 6 and Quicktime 6.5.
It will not run on newer versions of IE or Quicktime.
To order contact Susan Stevens at 608/264-9693, or complete the online order form.
