Folklife Resources for Educators
Materials Related to Wisconsin
There are 6 items in this list. 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.
Grade Level: 3-5; 6-8; 9-12 |
Curriculum: Music; Language Arts; History and Social Studies; Art and Culture |
Resource Type: Lesson plans |
Language: English |
Subjects: Crafts; Foodways; Music; Dance; Wisconsin--Social life and customs; Ethnic folklore; Ethnic arts; Folk art; Geography; Material culture; Folk artists; Decorative arts
Geographic locations: Wisconsin |
Sponsoring Organization: Wisconsin Arts Board 101 E. Wilson Street Madison WI 53702
(608) 266-0190 http://artsboard.wisconsin.gov/static/
Haudenosaunee Guide for Educators
by National Museum of the American Indian http://www.nmai.si.edu/education/files/HaudenosauneeGuide.pdf
Teaching guide that provides background and activities on the Haudenosaunee, a confederation of six Native American nations commonly known as the Iroquois Confederacy. The nations include the Mohawk, the Oneida, the Onondaga, the Cayuga, the Seneca, and the Tuscarora. The Teaching Guide was created by staff from the Museum of the American Indian in collaboration with Haudenosaunee scholars and community members. It includes background information about the history, traditions, cultural life, arts, and patterns of social and civic interaction of the Haudenosaunee peoples, with suggestions for classroom discussion questions and activities, such as the making of cornhusk dolls. (24 p. PDF)
Grade Level: 3-5; 6-8; 9-12 |
Curriculum: Art and Culture; History and Social Studies; Language Arts |
Resource Type: Activities; Lesson plans |
Language: English |
Subjects: Iroquois Indians; Oneida Indians; Seneca Indians; Dollmaking; Indians of North America; New York (State)--Social life and customs; Oklahoma--Social life and customs; Mohawk Indians; Cayuga Indians; Wisconsin--Social life and customs; Tuscarora Indians; Onondaga Indians
Geographic locations: Wisconsin; Oklahoma; New York (State) |
Sponsoring Organization: National Museum of the American Indian Fourth Street & Independence Avenue, SW Washington DC 20560
(202) 633-6996 http://www.nmai.si.edu/
Dane County Cultural Tour 2002
by Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures http://csumc.wisc.edu/cmct/DaneCountyTour/
Description of a four-day field trip taken by a classroom of fourth and fifth graders from Randall Elementary School in Madison, Wisconsin, to farming communities, small towns, and suburbs in south central Wisconsin. They visited ethnic communities and occupational sites, met and interviewed folk artists, musicians, and community historians, and documented their experiences through writing and photography. Many of the field reports included were written by students. This site gives an idea of the places they visited, and the traditions and folklore they discovered, and includes a "How We Did It" section for ideas on organizing similar cultural tours.
Grade Level: 3-5 |
Curriculum: Art and Culture; History and Social Studies |
Resource Type: Activities |
Language: English |
Subjects: Recreation; Community life; Foodways; Folk art; Inquiry-based learning; Farm life; Photography; Traditional farming; Folklore; Fieldwork (Educational method); Interviewing; Wisconsin--Social life and customs; Occupations--Folklore; Religious life and customs
Geographic locations: Wisconsin; General |
Sponsoring Organization: Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures 901 University Bay Drive Madison WI 53705
(608) 256-4640 http://csumc.wisc.edu/
Other Organizations:
Randall Elementary School 1802 Regent Sreet Madison Wisconsin 53705
(608) 204-3302 http://www.greatschools.net/wisconsin/madison/877-Randall-Elementary-School/
Hmong Cultural Tour
by Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures http://csumc.wisc.edu/cmct/HmongTour/themes/index.htm
Teacher's guide for organizing cultural tours for students in the upper elementary grades, developed as an educational resource for a Madison Children's Museum exhibit, Hmong at Heart, created in 2004. This site documents a class trip of 4th and 5th graders to seven cities in Wisconsin to introduce them to Hmong culture and communities firsthand. Includes a "How We Did It" section, to help teachers plan their own cultural field trips, and students' essays about the trip. Hmong traditions and history, including music, foodways, crafts, games, healing practices, and textile arts are described in the "Field Guide to Hmong Culture," (91 p. PDF). Links to the "Teachers' Guide to Local Culture" (69 p. PDF), which includes a generic lesson plan for grades 3-5, with adaptations for K-2, plus teaching strategies. Also links to the "Kids' Guide to Local Culture," (139 p. PDF), which includes student activities.
Grade Level: K-2; 3-5 |
Curriculum: Language Arts; History and Social Studies; Art and Culture |
Resource Type: Activities |
Language: English |
Subjects: Interviewing; Inquiry-based learning; Foodways; Traditional medicine; Music; Games; Textile fabrics; Folklore--Fieldwork; Community life; Storytelling; Fieldwork (Educational method); Hmong Americans; Wisconsin--Social life and customs; Crafts
Geographic locations: Wisconsin |
Sponsoring Organization: Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures 901 University Bay Drive Madison WI 53705
(608) 262-8180 http://csumc.wisc.edu/
Other Organizations:
Madison Children's Museum 100 State Street Madison WI 5370f3
(608) 256-6445 http://www.madisonchildrensmuseum.org/
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.
Grade Level: K-2; 3-5; 6-8; 9-12 |
Curriculum: Science; Language Arts; History and Social Studies; Art and Culture |
Resource Type: Lesson plans; Activities |
Language: English |
Subjects: Weather; Wisconsin--Social life and customs; Weather--Folklore; Folklore--Fieldwork; Interviewing; Meteorology
Geographic locations: Wisconsin |
Sponsoring Organization: Wisconsin Arts Board 101 E. Wilson Street Madison WI 53702
(608) 266-0190 http://artsboard.wisconsin.gov/static/
Teacher Lesson Plans
by John Michael Kohler Arts Center https://www.jmkac.org/TeacherLessonPlans
Lesson plans for the home and the K-12 classroom on such topics as Wisconsin folklore and regional history, the arts and social change, and visionary environmental art. The lesson plans are divided into "Constructed Realities Lesson Plans," and "Environmental Builders Lesson Plans," and are based on exhibits that the John Michael Kohler Arts Center has featured. Included are lessons with activities, in PDF format, focusing on traditional, ethnic, and visionary artists, and legendary figures from Wisconsin folklore.
Grade Level: K-2; 3-5; 6-8; 9-12 |
Curriculum: Language Arts; History and Social Studies; Art and Culture |
Resource Type: Lesson plans; Activities |
Language: English |
Subjects: Legends; Outsider art; Wisconsin--Social life and customs; Folklore; Folk artists; History; Art; Social history; Social justice
Geographic locations: Wisconsin |
Sponsoring Organization: John Michael Kohler Arts Center 608 New York Avenue Sheboygan WI 53081
(920) 458-6144 http://www.jmkac.org/
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