This module guides educators through five methods for adding local phenomena to existing units. It includes rationale for adding local phenomena and cautions for using it. It emphasizes the importance of knowing and surveying students and the community in order to make these local connections and equitably engage students.

These data provide a historical view of the ice cover on 3 Wisconsin lakes that either are in close geographically close proximity to many students or are located close to the Capital of WI -- thereby providing relevance to Wisconsin students. These data can provide an anchoring phenomena for approaching concepts of phase changes, thermal energy transfer and global climate change. These data were extracted from: Wisconsin State Climatology OfficeNelson Institute for Environmental Studieshttps://climatology.nelson.wisc.edu/first-order-station-climate-data/madison-climate/lake-ice/madison-lake-ice-summ

These are source data and an article from the Journal "Nature" to use with students for anchoring the effects of Global Climate change on ice durations of local lakes. The article describes ice conditions and methadologies of 6 Wisconsin Lakes. There are links to raw data that can be used to generate graphs and develop sensemaking for students.  

This is a publicly accessible website that contains wonderful, Wisconsin based data. Maybe the writing from another Wisconsin HS science teacher provides some ideas for how these data could be used.