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Family Science Night
The Center for Biology Education connects UW–Madison researchers with Madison-area schools during Family Science Night Programs when UW–Madison faculty and staff share their expertise and research interests with the K–12 education community. Eight to ten UW researchers, students in the sciences, or scientists from local businesses gather at a local school to present workshops. These hands-on activities engage students, families, and teachers in the process of scientific inquiry and give students the opportunity to ask scientists questions about their careers. CBE staff can provide a template and contacts for schools or parent organizations to organize these events.
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Family Village: A Global Community of Disability-Related Resources
The Family Village is a Web site for children and adults with disabilities, and for their families, friends, and allies. Family Village brings together thousands of online resources in an organized, easy-to-use directory. The centerpiece of Family Village is the library, where visitors can find information on more than 300 diagnoses. Visitors can also learn about assistive technology, legal rights and legislation, special education, leisure activities, and much more. The Web site was developed by the Waisman Center.
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Fast Plants
These special plants are super fast – they grow from seed to plant in 35 to 40 days. This speed makes them perfect to use in the classroom as models for hands-on investigative science. The Web site guides teachers on how to use the activities in the classroom, and students can find links to share their research results and check out other activities. Fast Plants were developed at UW–Madison in the plant research program. First used by research scientists in the laboratory, they are now used in classrooms around the world. The Wisconsin Fast Plants Program is a science education/outreach program for teachers that develops instructional materials, offers workshops, promotes networking, and collaborates with other educational initiatives.
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Food for Thought: The Cookie Analogy
Food for Thought: The Cookie Analogy introduces the topic of heredity to high school students by using the familiar to explain the unfamiliar. The familiar in this case is cookies and cookie recipes – the unfamiliar is genetics concepts, including phenotype and genotype. The familiar becomes a model that is used to help students understand concepts that are often difficult to learn without using highly technical terminology. The activity also can be used to help students learn terms that may be commonly used, but are often misunderstood. It can be easily adapted for other grade levels or to include other topics.
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Freedom's Journal
The Wisconsin Historical Society has digitized the first African-American owned and operated newspaper published in the United States, Freedom's Journal. The Journal was published weekly in New York City from 1827 to 1829. Freedom's Journal provided international, national, and regional information on current events and contained editorials declaiming slavery, lynching, and other injustices. The Journal also published biographies of prominent African-Americans and listings of births, deaths, and marriages in the African-American New York community. Freedom's Journal circulated in 11 states, the District of Columbia, Haiti, Europe, and Canada.
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Fun with Forensic Chemistry Camp
The Department of Chemistry's Institute for Chemical Education (ICE) offers an afternoon laboratory program in chemistry for middle school students entering grades 6–8. Fun With Chemistry Camp is designed to stimulate scientific curiosity through demonstrations, experiments, and hands-on activities. Campers will learn how to gather evidence, apply forensic science techniques, and employ the scientific method to solve daily mysteries and crimes.
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