Adventures in Wisconsin Learning Resources:

Unit Study Overview:

State Flower:

Wood Violet

State Bird:

Robin

State Tree:

Sugar Maple

Artist Spotlights:

Frank Loyd Wright & Karolina Bąkowska

Art Appreciation:

Henry Viaden & Gibson Byrd

Cook:

Wisconsin Chilli with Biscuits

Mascarpone Cheese Brownies

Read, Paint, Cook Book Lists:

Optional Books: (* marked are my top picks!)

Picture books About Wisconsin:

  • *B is for Badger: A Wisconsin Alphabet by Kathy-jo Wargin (general)

  • Good Night Wisconsin by Adam Gamble (general)

  • Lulu & Rocky in Milwaukee by Barbara Joosse (Milwaukee sights/tourism)

  • The Legend of Wisconsin by Kathy-Jo Wargin (legend)

  • Home in the Woods by Eliza Wheeler (historical fiction)

  • The Legend of Old Abe: A Civil War Eagle by Kathy-jo Wargin (historical fiction/legend)

Chapter Books Set in Wisconsin:

  • *Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Pair up with our Study Companion)

  • Mountain Wolf Woman: A Ho-Chunk Girlhood by Diane Holliday

  • Native People of Wisconsin by Patty Loew

  • Freedom Train North: Stories of the Underground Railroad in Wisconsin & Julia Pferdehirt

  • Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink

  • Mitt & Minn at the Wisconsin Cheese Jamobree by Kathy-Jo Wargin

  • The Mystery on the Great Lakes by Caole Marsh

Books About Frank Loyd Wright & Art Projects:

  • Frank Lloyd Wright for Kids by Kathleen Thorne-Thomsen

  • *Prairie Boy by Barb Roenstock

  • The Shape of the World: A Portrait of Frank Lloyd Wright by KL Going

  • Frank Lloyd Wright: Meet the Architect! by Patricia Geis

  • Opposites with Frank Lloyd Wright

  • *Who Was Frank Lloyd Wright? by Ellen Labrecque

  • Creative Textiles Projects for Children by Karen Woods

Optional Books: (* marked are my top picks!)

Books About Cheese:

  • Making Milk and So Much More by Cris Peterson

  • The Cheese Experiment by Elisabetta Dami

  • Moon Cheese by Fern Brown

  • Easy Cheese by Rachel Walker

Books About Robins:

  • *Robins! How They Grow Up by Eileen Christelow

  • A Round of Robins by Katie Hesterman

  • Robins: Songbirds of Spring by Mia Posada

  • This Is the Nest That Robin Built by Denise Fleming

  • Nesting by Henry Cole

Books About Sugar Maple Trees:

  • From Seed to Maple Tree: Following the Life Cycle by Laura Purdie Salas

  • *The Big Tree by Bruce Hiscock

  • At Grandpa's Sugar Bush by Margaret Carney

  • Sugarbush Spring by Marsha Chall