Classroom Materials

Dear Teachers,

We are pleased to present this adventurous and rich online curriculum to accompany “The Making of Milwaukee” (MOM) produced by Milwaukee Public Television. The MOM curriculum is organized within six historical themes that align with “The Making of Milwaukee” Video Chapter Series and based on John Gurda’s book by the same title. Each historical theme includes numerous learning activities that can be used as single lessons or as part of an ongoing investigation of Milwaukee History. Learning activities within each theme include:

• Essential Questions that serve as overarching inquires to connect each lesson to a larger question of history and the human experience.
• Invitational Activities that stimulate student thinking, curiosity, and imagination about the lesson they will experience and can be used prior to the viewing “The Making of Milwaukee” Video Chapters.
• Film Response Activities that provide a variety of lessons to actively engage students in the content after viewing each of the Video Chapters.
• Then and Now Activities that make a direct link between history and the students’ current lives so they can explore the way history is connected through time.
• Learning Outside the Classroom Activities that allow learners to connect classroom learning to learning opportunities in the community.
• Milwaukee Trivia Activities that are designed as fun and quick inquiries of student knowledge about details in Milwaukee’s history.
• Timeline Activities that help learners place events into the broader context of Milwaukee History.
• Discussion Questions that enable teachers to ask main idea and critical analysis questions about the content of the Video Chapter.
• Wisconsin Model Academic Standards that allow you to quickly identify the pertinent standards taught in each lesson.

We are pleased to present this resource and hope you will find it creative, useful, and relevant to your classroom instruction and students’ learning.

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