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PBS Wisconsin Education Wisconsin Biographies

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A collection of educational media resources that features the stories of people who have shaped Wisconsin's history. Stories span a range of eras, areas of impact, and identities of individuals featured. Themes in the collection focus on community builders, innovators of industry, justice seekers, land protectors and leaders in government. With each story you'll find: - A short animated video (3-8 minutes) - Questions to spark reflection, connection, and conversation - A short digital biography book (accessible as a Google slide deck) with per-page audio, glossary terms, images, and maps - A historical image gallery - An educator guide with extension activity ideas and standards supported

Material Type: Other

Author: PBS Wisconsin Education

The Power of Indigenous Knowledge and the Importance of Land to the Anishinaabe People

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This unit will use a variety of resources to show issues related to Indigenous lands, explain some of the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewas history and discuss how the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewas is going about reclaiming tribal traditional lands, and how Indigenous people have a traditional, cultural, and spiritual connection with the lands that they reside on.This unit will use a podcast, youtube video, news articles, and traditional storytelling in hopes the students will be able to see the importance of gaining knowledge. After this unit they will learn about the Power of Indigenous Knowledge!

Material Type: Lesson Plan, Unit of Study

Authors: Rick Erickson, Brian Boyd

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Quarter 4 Outdoor School-wide (K-5) Inquiry Mini-Unit

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The following six OERS for grades K-5 are designed for teachers to use the outdoor spaces around their schools for learning with the goals of connecting students with their sense of place and well-being. Together, the six experiences comprise a school-wide mini-unit in which each grade level explore an Investigative Question.  Collectively, each Investigative Question leads the entire student body in considering the Essential Question of the mini-unit.  A school leadership team identified the Wisconsin Standards for Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (ELS) to be addressed at every grade level and developed an Essential Question to be explored.Wisconsin Green Schools Network FIELD coaches provided teachers with an introduction to outdoor, place-based inquiry learning, unpacked ELS, and met with grade level teams to co-create inquiry questions (called Investigative Questions in the lessons that follow) for their students to investigate outside each quarter. These OERs were co-taught with teachers and FIELD coaches and were refined during co-reflection.

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Author: Sandy Benton

Recording April 6, 2022 Engaging Students in Science Discourse: Facilitating Writing and Discussion Outdoors and In

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NGSS standards require students to not only think like scientists, but to communicate in the manner that scientists do as well. Creating the conditions and providing the structures and supports for science discourse are key! Join FIELD Edventures and guest speaker, Suzy Zietlow, Discovery Charter School Teacher, and 2022 NSTA Conference presenter as she shares strategies and routines. Nature Journaling for Science Instruction.

Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: Suzy Zietlow

Recording March 16, 2022 Feedback and Assessment: What Evidence of Learning Can Be Found in Students' Nature Journal Entries?

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Do you use nature journaling in your instruction? What evidence do students' journal entries provide on what they have learned and where they need to go next in their learning journeys? In this session, we will: connect with experts and resources on nature journaling; explore practices to give students agency in their learning through self-assessment and peer feedback; and offer ways to improve deliberate practice to grow ideas and approaches. New resources for nature journaling as well as the How to Teach Nature Journaling book.

Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: Sandy Benton

Recording--March 2, 2022 Spring Break Up: Shattering Our Lesson Plan Structure

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The is the recording of the online collaboration of the BEETLES and Nature Journaling WISELearn Group collaboration on March 2, 2022. Slight shifts in lesson structures can meaningfully engage learners inequitable and culturally-relevant inquiries. Experience instruction in ways that people really learn and share your ideas for implementation. Come prepared with a nature journal or paper, pencils, and colored pencils as you view and participate in these recorded experiences.

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Authors: Sandy Benton, skylar primm, Tiffany Lodholz

Recording March 9, Using Primary Source: Advancing EE through Culturally-Responsive Text Sets

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Cynthia Bachhuber, introduces us to the wide range of sources available and delve into how historians use these sources to construct our histories. We’ll explore how archives are created, what it means to use these materials as a critical thinker, and how you can access physical and digital primary sources as an educator. Primary source material may be included as texts as you develop your text sets in this project. Find out how historical resources can support learning in all content areas. Speaker: Cynthia Bachhuber is a librarian/archivist at the Wisconsin Historical Society where she focuses on outreach & instruction - making history accessible and relevant.

Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: Sandy Benton

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Resource Extraction (Sand Mining) Town Hall Meeting

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This resource provides a class activity based on a “Town Hall Meeting” discussion/debate on resource extraction using sand mining in Wisconsin as a case study. The activity is designed for a lower-level university course. The objective is to engage students in a lively discussion of different perspectives on the significance of resource extraction held by various stakeholder groups in Wisconsin. It is based on stakeholders within Trempealeau County, but many are also found elsewhere and could readily be adapted to any location within the state. Students divide into representative groups, work collaboratively to explore the diversity of perspectives, and present these during an online synchronous meeting.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: Cynthia Berlin

Resources from Chats: Advancing EE through Culturally-Relevant Text Sets

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The collaborative online conversations and chats have resulted in document of resources entered into the chats for each of the sessions of Advancing Environmental Literacy through Culturally-Relevant Text Sets. The document is a work in progress and contributions of group members will be added and revised with on ongoing collaborations.

Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: Sandy Benton

Resources from Chats: Nature Journaling

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This is a collaborative document of resources recommended by members of the Using BEETLES and Nature Journaling for High Quality Science Instruction. It is compilation of the ongoing chats of the Zoom meetings of the group. Updates and revisions will occur throughout the collaboration by members of the group.

Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: Sandy Benton

Science Journal/Notebook

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 Over the course of the semester students will create, maintain, and compare a nature journal and digital science notebook.  The intent of this activity is for them to become familiar with how journals/notebooks can be used by learners to facilitate scientific inquiry endeavors from both nature-based and technology-based perspectives.

Material Type: Learning Task, Lesson, Lesson Plan, Module, Reference Material, Rubric/Scoring Guide, Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: Kathleen Kremer

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Survival Novel Unit

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This unit is designed around providing student choice. There will be 5 novels for students to choose from: Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys, Refugee by Alan Gratz, Zeros by Scott Westerfeld, The Martian by Andy Weir, and Lord of the Flies by William Golding. Each novel focuses on the central theme of survival. Students will read and meet weekly for 8 weeks. Each week the novel groups will be given specific discussion questions and tasks that are aligned with Wisconsin ELA standards and Wisconsin Standards for Environmental Literacy & Sustainability.

Material Type: Unit of Study

Author: Tirzah Zipperer

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