Investigating Wisconsin History | Creating a State

'Investigating Wisconsin History' helps students think like historians. Each program poses a 'history mystery' and then follows a variety of historical clues to solve it. As 'history detectives,' students analyze such clues as historical sites, oral histories, artifacts, maps and photographs. In putting together this historical evidence, they will form an image of the past and realize that history often involves multiple perspectives.

Creating a State - After finding a handbill advocating suffrage rights for Wisconsin women, Angie investigates the process Wisconsin went through to become a state. She pays special attention to who was included and who was excluded in the process, and why. Angie discovers that, since statehood, citizens have worked constantly, using a variety of methods, to make Wisconsin a better place to live. She asks viewers to consider problems they would like to change and methods for creating change.

More at: http://www.ecb.org/history/

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