Wisconsin Media Lab

Wisconsin Media Lab - Thank you to Wisconsin's public broadcasting system for the award-winning classroom resource that provides free K-12 multimedia educational content. The Wisconsin Media Lab Content Brochure summarizes all that is available from this resource categorized by content area and grade level ranges.  Some fantastic Elementary appropriate resources found in Wisconsin Media Lab includes:

Into the Book - This is a reading comprehension resource for students and teachers.  The focus is on eight research based strategies: Using Prior Knowledge, Making Connections, Questioning, Visualizing, Inferring, Summarizing, Evaluating, and Synthesizing.  For educators, it includes lesson plans, activity guides, and student videos.

Into the Map - This is a collection of five online activities that explore Wisconsin's geography.

Wisconsin Biographies - This resource provides biographies for ten notable figures from Wisconsin history.  Each biography story has an engaging video and text story written for grade 4, but is also written for younger and older students as well in three reading levels.  

Climate Wisconsin - These are stories to learn about climate change in Wisconsin. Stories include topics of Sugaring, Farming, Shipping, Adaptation & Migration, Phenology, Extreme Heat, Birkebeiner, Fly Fishing, Forestry, and Ice Fishing.

Digital Science Online - This resource has content for primary and elementary level content including video, animations, images, and teacher guides for physical, earth, life, health and integrated science.