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Adult Role Models in Science (ARMS)
Sponsored by the Center for Biology Education, ARMS is designed to help make science real and meaningful at the elementary level through long-term community partnerships. The program works to bring scientists and aspiring scientists into schools as role models and also to help teachers and parents to be role models in science. Programs include classroom volunteers, after-school science clubs, and Family Science Nights. ARMS also works to connect classroom learning to informal education venues. Seven Madison schools participate in ARMS: Frank Allis, Emerson, Hawthorne, Lake View, Lincoln, Lowell, and Mendota.
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AMSER
AMSER (the Applied Math and Science Education Repository) is a portal of applied math and science educational resources and services built specifically for use by those in community and technical colleges but free for anyone to use. AMSER is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) as part of the National Science Digital Library, and is being created by a team of project partners led by Internet Scout.
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Arboretum and Center for Restoration Ecology (UW-Madison)
This 1,280-acre nature preserve is a research and teaching facility located south of the campus. It includes world-renowned collections of restored, native Wisconsin plant and animal communities, as well as an extensive collection of woody plants. The arboretum boasts more than 25 miles of woodland and prairie hiking trails. Public tours are available on weekends; school groups can schedule appointments during the week. Self-guiding brochures are available for families about Curtis Prairie, Gallistel Woods and Indian Mounds. Birding backpacks can be checked out for free at the arboretum bookstore. On the second Saturday of every month, the arboretum offers Earth Partnership for Families, a two-hour, kid-friendly program that uses nature hikes, stories, crafts, and activities to explore animals, plants, and natural phenomena. On the second Sunday of every month, the arboretum offers one-hour family walks with topics that are especially appealing to youngsters.
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Atlas of the Biosphere
The Atlas of the Biosphere brings environmental information to the widest possible audience. Although specifically designed for high school and university students and teachers, anyone can benefit from a stroll through this online collection. The maps section contains geographically explicit data broken down into four general categories: humans, land use, ecosystems, and water resources. The schematics section looks at the various resource flows and pools that make up individual earth systems. The collection was developed and is maintained by the Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (SAGE), UW–Madison Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies.
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Authentic Assessment Online Resources
This resource is compiled by the UW-Stout School of Education. Here you will find a hand-selected index of authentic assessment resources. You are one click away from vital information about performance assessment, rubrics, negotiable contracting, and electronic portfolios. We include links to web based tools for creating your own assessments.
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BioLEARN (Linking Educators As a Resource Network)
The BioLEARN Web site includes a set of teaching resources created for and by Wisconsin high school and middle school biology teachers. Activities have been reviewed and classroom-tested by teams of teachers and are aligned with Wisconsin Model Academic Standards. The Web site includes a template for teachers to develop new activities and a rubric for reviewing their own or others' teaching materials.
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Biology Outreach Club
The Biology Outreach Club is a group of mainly graduate students who bring hands-on biology activities to young learners and the public – on campus, throughout the Madison community, and around the state of Wisconsin. Its goal is to help people of all ages explore the excitement and wonder of biology. In 2007, the club received an Ira and Ineva Reilly Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment, which will enable members to design new outreach materials on a range of biology topics and make the materials available to teachers statewide. During the three-year grant period, the group also plans to conduct 20 outreach events per year.
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BioTrek
BioTrek is the science outreach program of the Biotechnology Center of UW–Madison and of UW–Extension. BioTrek engages the public in the outreach mission of the University by providing tours and workshops at the Biotechnology Center on the UW–Madison campus. The program also offers workshops and inservices anywhere in Wisconsin for teachers, learners of any age, 4-H and other Cooperative Extension groups, community clubs, and any interested group. BioTrek's mission is "Sharing Science With Wisconsin." Its goal is to transform how people view and do science, and to better enable people to use science in making personal choices and public policies.
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Botany Garden Insects
Lovers of butterflies and dragonflies will enjoy a Web site created by the UW–Madison Botany Department, which has collected photographs of butterflies and dragonflies found in Wisconsin.
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Bottle Biology
The Bottle Biology Web site shows how bottles can be used to explore science and the environment. Visitors can create ecosystems, explore the concept of "niche," model a lakeshore, breed fruit flies and spiders, observe the adventures of slime molds, or pickle cabbage. The many fun projects on this site promote science as a tool everyone can use to explore the world. These explorations also can be integrated with history, art, music, and other creative endeavors. The Wisconsin Fast Plants Program produces instructional materials for the Bottle Biology Manual. The Web site includes sample activities from the manual.
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Camp Badger Exploring Engineering Program
Engineers design everything from skateboards to rockets, help provide electricity and other energy sources to keep people comfortable and healthy, build structures that are safe and comfortable to live and work in, and improve life on a daily basis by solving existing problems and helping avoid future problems. Wisconsin 7th graders who are entering 8th grade in the fall are invited to join this one-week residential program to learn about engineering and begin to see the study of science and math as a path that can lead to great careers. Requirements: Students entering 8th grade; application form and typewritten student essay (due in spring).
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Capital Science and Engineering Fair
Science Fair for High School Students in Columbia, Dane, Dodge, Green, Iowa, Jefferson, Rock and Sauk counties. CSEF will be held February 16, 2008
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Center for Biology Education
The mission of the Center for Biology Education (CBE) is to mobilize and enhance the resources of the University of Wisconsin–Madison to promote excellence in biology education. Throughout its history, the Center for Biology Education has developed and coordinated a spectrum of activities/programs in biology education at the K–12 and undergraduate levels. Members of the CBE staff have backgrounds and training in a variety of biology subdisciplines as well as in the field of education. CBE also involves members of UW–Madison's biological sciences community (located in more than 68 departments and programs and distributed among seven schools and colleges) in program development and implementation.
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Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies K-16 and Community Outreach (UW-Milwaukee)
The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) provides extensive resources and services for K-16 educators--locally, regionally and nationally--incorporating Latin America and the Caribbean in their teaching. Among the wonderful resources available on this website are a Media Collection from which teachers may borrow books, maps, videos, DVDs, and other materials; annotated bibliographies of children's literature on the Americas; professional development opportunities; and much more.
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College Access Program (CAP)
CAP is a three-week, residential academic-skills-development workshop held on the UW–Madison campus during the summer. It is designed to prepare students who are completing their freshman, sophomore or junior year in high school for college and also to help them identify career goals. The CAP Web site provides information about program components, goals, eligibility and application process. Enrollment is limited.
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