Lesson Plans

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Lesson Plans with UW Digital Collections

UW Digital Collections was formally organized in 2001 and since our formation, we have put over 40,000 images and 1 million text pages online. Our mission is to create digital resources from libraries across the state and make them freely available to faculty, staff and students at the University and to teachers and students statewide. Today, kids turn to the web for answers as quickly as they turn to books. We want them to be able to assess web content for quality and dependability and one of the first steps is to introduce them to reliable and historically important digital content. UW Digital Collections offer primary resources which allow users to make their own interpretations of historical events, build critical thinking skills and offer a direct path to historical events; students can read the words, see the actions and hear the voices of those directly involved in the past and those that may be shaping the future.

We have ideal content for K-12 education, but we need help creating lesson plans that make it easier for teachers to use the content in their classrooms.

Here are the simple steps it takes to participate:

1. Take a look at what we have. Our collections are located at http://uwdc.library.wisc.edu or just Google “UWDC.”
2. Take a look at what lesson plans have already been written and are available at ide@s, http://www.ideas.wisconsin.edu/. Do a search from the home page for UWDC in order to get all of the entered lesson plans.
3. Contact John Fischer at ide@s (jfischer@conted.uwex.edu) as you’ll need to sign an official Memorandum of Agreement before you do any work so that you will be paid.
4. Pick a collection or document that you would use in your classroom and then create a lesson plan around it. We have a template that should be followed—a simple Word document—that we will send to you as soon as you express interest.
5. Submit the lesson to UW Digital Collections via email. Our email address is digitalcontent@library.wisc.edu.
6. The lesson plan will be reviewed and then entered into the ide@s database where other teachers can view and use your lesson plans.
7. You will be paid $300 for each lesson plan that utilizes our template and digital collections and that is positively reviewed.
8. Contact us with any questions!