Paper Makes Wisconsin Great!

Do you want to learn about the papermaking process, the history of the industry, the industry's contributions to the state economy and its commitment to the environment?

PMWG Paper Makes Wisconsin Great is a multi-media, educational kit especially suited for 4^th and 5^th grade students. A seven-member curriculum advisory committee, comprised of three elementary teachers, one middle school, one high school teacher, and two curriculum consultants, helped develop this new kit.

It is presented in a self-contained, three-ring binder format, making it convenient to access and store all basic materials.

Paper Makes Wisconsin Great includes these components:

A videotape with three segments: The Magic of Paper, The Business of Paper and Paper and the Environment.

Eight student activities integrated to the video’s main themes:

Which is America’s Number One Papermaking State?
Imagine A Day Without Paper...
What Should I Be? What About A Papermaker?
Make Your Own Paper — It’s Easy and Fun!
From China to Wisconsin: Important Events in Papermaking History
How Many Wisconsin Paper Products Can You Find?
Managed Forests, Sustainable Forests
Papermaking and the Environment — A Lesson in Stewardship

Six Fact Sheets for Educators providing more background on key paper industry topics, including:

A History of Papermaking
How Pulp and Paper Is Made
Wisconsin’s Paper Industry Today
Environmental Protection and Pollution Prevention
Forest Stewardship and Sustainability
Energy Conservation

A glossary, listing industry or unfamiliar terms and their definitions.

Sample materials from Wisconsin paper industry facilities, including:

	Wood chips, ready for the industrial pulpmaking process.
	A piece of dry pulp. In a paper mill, huge bales of this material, called wetlap, are taken from storage and mixed with water to produce pulp for the papermaking machine.
	A section of a paper machine wire, or forming material, where the water is drained from the slurry to form a wet sheet of paper.
	A section of a paper machine felt, which transports the wet sheet to the press and drier sections to complete the initial papermaking process.

An educational poster graphically showing the pulp and paper manufacturing process.

Other selected Wisconsin paper industry information.






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