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education organizations, and aligned to
Wisconsin's model academic standards.
Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction's
(DPI) WINNS Curriculum Wizard: Plan your
own standards-based curriculum or teaching unit.
TIP: limit your keyword search to IMC location in
drop-down menu.
TIP: be specific in your keyword search. Instead of
"social studies," try "geography," "history,"
"political science." Better yet, "elections", "United
States history--Revolution, 1775-1783", "France."
TIP: Add "study and teaching" to your keyword
search to bring up lesson ideas, not literature.
IDEAS: Provides Wisconsin educators access to
high-quality, highly usable, teacher-reviewed webbased resources for curricula, content, lesson
plans, professional development and other selected
resources. These resources help Wisconsin
educators use technology to meet the Wisconsin
Model Academic Standards and create the
foundation for a statewide knowledge management
system.
TIP: Use the drop-down menu to search “as a
phrase” if using more than one word
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TIP: When you've found an item that is what you
are looking for, scroll down to the subjects. You can
cross-search them by clicking on them.
"Your Classroom" tab contains links to:
Curriculum Standards, Election 2004, Lesson
Plans, Notable Trade Books, Teaching Resources
TIP: Still not finding what you need? Click on
"Other Catalogs" at the top and search through the
holdings of all the UW System libraries. Ordering
through this is free and your materials will arrive
in about 3 days.
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Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction's
(DPI) Model Academic Standards
Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction's
(DPI) WINNS Curriculum Resource Center:
Thousands of high-quality lesson plans, classroom
activities, instructional television programs, and
more, all provided by leading professional
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Gateway to Educational Materials (GEM):
keyword search, refine by selecting from links on
far right; ERIC Database.
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Lesson plans, journal articles, and much, much
more.
TIP: Include the phrase "lesson plans" in keyword
search.
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TIP: Click on Find It! to search other databases for
the same article.
TIP: The library has almost all the ED materials
on microfilm on the 2nd floor.
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Thousands of pages from manuscripts, books,
journals, and image collections, as well as 250,000
database records about Wisconsin people,
buildings, and sites.
TIP: Check out the "Teachers and Students" link
for educational materials arranged according to
topic.
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Videos, multimedia, children's book collection
TIP: If you are looking for a particular type of
material, you can click on "More Limit Options."
Once there, you can limit the location to "IMC" and
then limit the medium to "videorecording" for
videos, or the item type to "computer file/software,"
"kit," or "mixed materials/collection."
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Home to the University Archives, the Area
Research Center of the Wisconsin Historical
Society, rare books, and local history books,
photographs, and maps.
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on newspaper-oriented resources.
Resources that can be ordered through your
cooperating teacher or school.
The newspapers, magazines and journals
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Digital versions of historical motion pictures,
sound recordings, prints and photographs, maps,
documents, letters and notes pertaining to
American history and culture.
TIP: The IMC professional collection has a lot of
information on how to use newspapers in the
classroom.
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suggestions.
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Educational cable TV programs (like the History
Channel or the Discovery Channel)--commercialfree and copyright cleared to be used in the
classroom. Also online content, including lesson
plans, interactive learning experiences, lesson
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