Scroll through for lessons on a variety of Wisconsin 101 object histories.
Links to each related essay are provided.
Badger Wheelmen Pin Lesson Plan
In this lesson, students will summarize the importance of logos, articulate how advertising can increase interest, and compare and contrast bikes of the past and bikes of today.
Read about the wheelmen pin here.
Cradleboard Lesson Plan
In this lesson, students identify the parts of the cradleboard, compare and contrast the cradleboard to current baby carriers, evaluate whether certain tasks are easier to perform with a cradleboard, tell a story of the past through an object and relate that story to today.
Read about the cradleboard here.
Log-Marking Hammer Lesson Plan
This lesson teaches students to describe branding marks, determine how weather and seasons might help move heavy items, summarize the importance of marking logs for the success of a logging company, experiment with different materials to understand friction, and tell a story about the past through an object and relate that story to today.
Read about the log-marking hammer here.
Pasty Lesson Plan
In this lesson, students learn to summarize how we use food to celebrate cultures, explain how food represents culture, construct a class world map, and tell a story about the past through an object and relate that story to today.
Read about the pasty here.
Slate Lesson Plan
This lesson asks students to reflect on some essential questions: Why do we save things?, What makes the things we save important?, What questions can objects help us answer? and How do we unlock the meanings of an object?
Read about the slate here.
Lefse Stone Lesson Plan
In this lesson, students learn to summarize how we use food to celebrate cultures, explain how food represents culture, identify how cooking tools changed over time, and examine how foods from different ethnicities are similar.
Read about the lefse stone here.
Graphophone Lesson Plan
This lesson on the graphophone addresses Wisconsin standards in social studies and sciences, connecting music as a social subject and sound waves as a scientific subject.
Read about the graphophone here.
