Teachers Guides

A series of guides are available for you to use during your museum visit and afterward in your classroom. They will help you challenge your students to "Think Like a Historian" by thinking critically, making personal connections with history, and evaluating information by asking "why," "how," and most importantly, "how do you know?"

General Museum Guide

Get our floor-by-floor exhibit map of the Wisconsin Historical Museum.

• Museum Guide

  (PDF, 246 KB, 4 pages)

Historical Literacy Teachers Guides

Historical Literacy Guides are available for you to use in your classroom after touring the Wisconsin Historical Museum. By focusing on objects, artifacts, maps, photographs and other primary sources from the Museum's collection, students will be able to redefine how they learn from objects and from history.

These guides also help meet state and federal curriculum standards for social studies.

• Behavioral Sciences: Hops Harvesting

  (PDF, 460 KB)

• Behavioral Sciences: Now and Then

  (PDF, 162 KB)

• Economics: Harvesting Wild Rice

  (PDF, 708 KB)

• Economics: Wisconsin Bank Notes

  (PDF, 534 KB)

• Geography: Madison: Vision of a Capital City

  (PDF, 580 KB)

• Geography: Peshtigo Fire: Before and After

  (PDF, 764 KB)

• History: Americanization

  (PDF, 677 KB)

• History: Cranberry Harvesting

  (PDF, 817 KB)

• Political Science: Civilian Conservation Corps

  (PDF, 646 KB)

• Download all guides

  (122 pages, 2.09 MB)

More information on primary sources and state history can be found on the Wisconsin Historical Society website.

For more information or questions contact Beth Lemke, Museum Educator, at 608-264-6567.