Grades K-4: Life, Legend, & Lore
Additional Resources
Lesson Images:
Image of the Hodag: Click Here
Images of Smith's sculptures: Click Here
Web Links:
Encourage students to investigate and share stories about their own families, communities, and regional history. The following links will provide valuable teacher resources, ideas, and activities to help you get started.
Dane County Cultural Tour Click Here
The extensive website Dane County Cultural Tour documents the 2001-02 year-long project by Mark Wagler's 4th/5th grade class. See the people and places they visited in the rural and urban areas of Dane County. Read the students' reflections and descriptive essays. See their drawings and photos. Use the assignments that Mark Wagler created and used during the course of the project.
Teachers' Guide to Local Culture Click Here
The Teachers' Guide to Local Culture is the companion to the Kids' Guide. After a detailed introduction that covers topics from pedagogy to practical matters, the guide gives several lesson plans on topics such as home remedies, rites of passage, storytelling and food ways. This resource is published by the Madison Children's Museum.
Park Street Cultural Tour Click Here
See the results of Mark Wagler's 4th/5th grade students' exploration of the cultures of Park Street in Madison. Read their observations of the people and places along this main thoroughfare near Randall Elementary.
Wisconsin History Lesson Plans Click Here
Find teacher-developed lesson plans about Wisconsin state and local history from the Wisconsin Historical Society's Office of School Services. These lessons offer creative ideas at both the elementary and secondary levels.
Family Treasures, Family Pottery Click Here
Barron School District art teacher Jean Waters explored family pottery and ceramics in this engaging project with elementary students. The project was based around the idea that every family has items that embody family culture. Families tell stories about how they acquired these items. Children learn a family's traditions for when and how to use these treasures and to identify decorative symbols and designs as reflecting their heritage. See student work, a letter sent home about the project, and a worksheet students used to identify their family treasure.
Caroline Arnold's Books: The Terrible Hodag and the Animal Catchers
Student Book List:
Horner, William. Gene Shepard’s Hodag. Green Bay, WI: Badger House LLC, 2001.
Pferdehirt, Julia. Wisconsin Forest Tales. Black Earth, WI: Trails Custom Publishing, 2004.
Osborne Pope, Mary. American Tall Tales. New York: Alfred Knopf Publisher, 1991.
Oxenbuy, Helen. We’re Going On A Bear Hunt. McEldeiry Books, 1989.
Perry, Sarah. If. Los Angeles, CA: Getty Publications, 1995.
Rand, Ted. Fighting For The Forest. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1999.
Sendak, Maurice. Where The Wild Things Are. Harper Collins Publishing, 1963.
Umberger, Leslie. Sublime Spaces & Visionary Worlds. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2007.
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