Folklife Resources for Educators

Sponsoring Organization Information

Wisconsin Arts Board
101 E. Wilson Street
Madison, WI 53702 (608) 266-0190

Wisconsin Folks
by Wisconsin Arts Board
http://arts.state.wi.us/static/folkdir/index.htm

Website for students, educators, and the general public featuring traditional artists, art forms, and cultures of Wisconsin. Includes background on regional and ethnic traditional crafts, foodways, music, and dance. Information on the site has content for 4th, 8th, and 12th grade themes in Social Studies, the Visual Arts, Music, Dance, English, Information and Technology Literacy, and Business, correlated to Wisconsin Model Academic Standards and Benchmarks. Also includes contact information for engaging Wisconsin traditional artists and performers for public and classroom presentations.

Sponsoring Organization:
Wisconsin Arts Board
101 E. Wilson Street
Madison WI 53702
(608) 266-0190
http://artsboard.wisconsin.gov/static/

Wisconsin Weather Stories
by Wisconsin Arts Board
http://weatherstories.ssec.wisc.edu/

Interdisciplinary curriculum featuring the science and stories of weather. It offers units, lesson plans, and activities for the K-12 classroom on weather narratives such as severe weather stories and predictive sayings, and explores the occupational folklore of meteorologists. Developed in 2003, these resources include examples from Wisconsin weather and guidelines on collecting weather stories with an introduction to doing folklore fieldwork.

Sponsoring Organization:
Wisconsin Arts Board
101 E. Wilson Street
Madison WI 53702
(608) 266-0190
http://artsboard.wisconsin.gov/static/