For Wisconsin, the kids especially enjoyed Laura Ingalls Wilder's classic, Little House in the Big Woods as a depiction of life in the Northern Wisconsin wilderness, but we also enjoyed reading about a wide variety of people with Wisconsin roots.
Books:
Wisconsin (My United States: A True Book) by Vicky Franchino
B is for Badger: A Wisconsin Alphabet by Kathy-Jo Wargin
Home in the Woods by Eliza Wheeler
The Shape of the World: A Portrait of Frank Lloyd Wright by K.L. Going
Prairie Boy by Barb Rosenstock
Who Was Frank Lloyd Wright? By Ellen Labrecque
The Raft by Jim LaMarche
Time for Cranberries by Lisl H. Detlefsen
The Giant Ball of String by Arthur Geisert
Rascal by Sterling North
Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright
Ida B: . . . and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World by Katherine Hannigan
Colin Kaepernick by Blake Hoena
Farmer Will Allen and the growing table by Jacqueline Briggs Martin
Swinging for the fences: Hank Aaron and me by Mike Leonetti
Remembering Green by Lisa Gammon Olson and Lauren Rutledge
The Hundred-Year Barn by Patricia MacLachlan
Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Who Was Laura Ingalls Wilder? By Patricia Demuth
Harry Houdini: Escape Artist by Patricia Lakin
Article on Aldo Leopold, Enviromnentalist https://kids.britannica.com/students/article/Aldo-Leopold/314961
Mini Bio on Dr Howard Temin, Nobel scientist whose work ultimately helped with the development of AIDs medication and more recently COVID vaccines https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1975/temin/facts/
Rhino in Right Field by Stacy DeKeyser
Goldie Takes a Stand by Barbara Krasner
Milwaukee Art Museum, especially the Santiago Calatrava wing: https://mam.org/info/quadracci.php
In Mary’s Garden by Tina Kugler
Art:
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| Wisconsin Cranberry Bog |
For Wisconsin the kids decided to depict a cranberry bog. Materials included tempra paint (cranberries and trees), water color (sky and water), and oil pastel (grass). The cranberry effect was made by dotting q-tips with various shades of red tempra paint.
