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The College of Letters and Science provides a broad range of outreach opportunities for audiences ranging from K-12 students to lifetime learners. Those resources include on-campus programs, traveling presentations, Web resources for students, teachers, and the public, and opportunities and resources for teachers. This page includes only resources for which on-line information is available. Please contact individual departments and programs for information on resources that are not represented here.
Christmas in the Lab of Shakashiri
Cinemateque
A campus showcase for films that otherwise might not be shown in Madison. Films are presented on a regular basis throughout the academic year and are free and open to the public.Language and World Cultures Resources
World Cinema Day
World Languages Day
College for Kids
Traveling presentations and resources
Universe in the Parks
Astronomy Department faculty and staff visit designated Wisconsin State Parks to assist the public with star and planet viewing during the summer camping season.
Africa Focus: Sights and Sounds of a Continent
Passeport a l'Afrique francophone
Classroom units from the K-12 teachers workshop held on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, June 2000.Art History, Department of
Department slide collections are available through a searchable on-line Web format. The site can be searched by artist, architect, site, or period.Astronomy Department
This site has useful links to several key interactive outreach resources.Chemistry Department Demonstration Lab
Current Weather and other on-line resources
Available through the Department of Atomospheric and Oceanic SciencesGeology Museum Web Site
Includes on-line displays of minerals and vertebrate, invertebrate, and plant fossils. The site's Paleontological Experiences component includes well-developed activities for students at the elementary, middle school, and high school levels.Huarochiri, A Peruvian City in Time
This site was developed by the Department of Anthropology and is available in English or Spanish-language versions. Huarochirí is an Andean province near Lima, Peru. This site offers an ethnographic and historical tour of some of its communities. It samples the Huarochirí Quechua Manuscript, which alone among colonial documents explains a pre-Christian tradition in an Andean language, and visits modern highlanders who inhabit and interpret the mythic landscape.Institute for Chemical Education
This site includes on-line publication of its journal, Connecting With Chemistry, which offers curricular ideas and discussion along with information on workshops and other opportunities for high school and other K-12 teachers. The site also contains information on its summer camps for middle school children.Internet Scout Project
The Internet Scout Project is located in the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and is sponsored by the National Science Foundation to provide timely information to the education community about valuable Internet resources. Daily and weekly updates are offered for K-12 and higher education faculty, staff, and students, as well as interested members of the general public. Organizations are encouraged to link to this page from their own Web pages, or to receive the HTML version of the Report each week via email for local posting at their site.Language Links
This site is maintained by the College of Letters and Science Learning Support Services unit and is designed for language teachers and students, and includes materials evaluated for their linguistic and pedagogic content. The sites selected include materials that support reading comprehention, fluency, and cultural content. They also include an "ideas" section on teaching and learning languages on the web. The site includes material for many of the 70 languages taught regularly at UW-Madison.Local Culture and Identity in the Upper Midwest
Mathematics, Engineering, and Science Talent Search
Each school year, the Mathematics, Engineering, and Science Talent Search creates five sets of five problems each and distributes them to high school and middle school students in the state of Wisconsin and throughout the world. These problems are unusual, challenging, and we hope, enjoyable. They are not easy, but their solutions do not require advanced mathematical knowledge--just talent in problem solving. The Mathematics, Engeineering, and Science Talent Search provides on-line problem sets, both current and archival, associated with the project. It also contains information on how to become involved.German-American Studies, Max Kade Institute for
On-line information related to its Teacher Workshops, Interdisciplinary Teaching Guide, and project on New Solutions for Foreign Language Education. The site also includes extensive recommended Internet Resources on the German immigrant experience and Germans in Wisconsin. Their Exhibits link is particularly good, since it takes the user to virtual exhibits (two on immigrant children) complete with additional resources and suggested children's activities.Science is Fun in the lab of Shakhashiri
The on-line complement to Professor Bassam Shakashiri's highly popular chemistry demonstration program. The site includes links to Chemistry Experiments You Can Do At Home, and Chemical of the Week, a very interesting context-based approach to chemical education.South Asia K-12 resources, Center for
Southeast Asia Images and Text Project
A searchable on-line archive of historic images from Southeast Asia (primarily the Philippines) dating from the 16th century.Virtual Foliage Page
This page makes thousands of the Department of Botany's teaching images and handouts available on-line. The collections include the extensive "Vegetation of Wisconsin" image sets developed by retired Arboretum naturalist, Dr. Virginia Kline.Wonders of Physics
This site contains the schedule for annual on-campus shows and information on how to arrange appearances in K-12 schools.
Opportunities and Resources for Educators
African Studies Outreach Resources and Services
African Studies K-12 Resources
Library and Information Studies Continuing Education
Courses on campus, virtual courses, study tours.
Paleontological Experiences
This part of the Geology Museum web site includes well-developed activities for students at the elementary, middle school, and high school levels.Physics Demonstrations: A Sourcebook for Teachers of Physics
Outlines and descriptions of demonstrations to illustrate basic principles such as motion, heat, and light.Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia Resources for Teachers
Lending Library, sample lesson plans, speakers bureau, workshops
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