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Using Museum Resources for Education

Exhibit:

The UWMZ maintains a small exhibit space located on the first floor of the L.E. Nolan Zoology Building in room 123. Our current exhibit is Galapagos Quest: the Wisconsin Connection. This exhibition celebrates the fascinating and multifaceted natural history of the Galápagos Islands. The show consists of two sections: information and specimens gathered by scientists, and tourist photographs taken by both professional and lay visitors to the islands.

Gallery hours are 10:00am to 3:00pm Monday through Friday.

Classes:

The museum provides learning opportunities for university classes campus-wide. Below are some examples of museum support for courses:

443 Noland lab set up

Biocore (also Education) 302: Evolution, Ecology, and Genetics. 3 weeks, Fall Semester. 20 students/section, 6 sections.
Requires display of bird and reptile specimens from the Galapagos Islands and study skins of birds from South and North America. Students design Galapagos research projects and discover how to conduct field research. Specimens are used for instruction in evolution, adaptation, variation, diversity, and resource partitioning.

Psychology 450: Animal Behavior - Primates. 2 weeks Fall, Spring, or Summer Semesters Evolution from monkey to humans, examining the comparative anatomy, growth, social behavior, intellegence, and emotion.

Wildlife 301: Terrestrial Vertebrates. 3 weeks, Spring semester. 30 students/section, 2 sections.
Students learn how to identify the mammals of Wisconsin by skin and skull characteristics and are taught natural history and diversity of mammalian orders and families from throughout North America and the world. Students use dissecting microscopes and work stations with specimens of mammal skins, mounts, skulls, and skeletons. Uses ~200 specimens over 3 weeks of lab.

Zoology 102: Animal Biology Laboratory. 3 weeks, Fall and Spring. 28 students/section, 20 sections.
Display of skeletons of fish, reptiles, birds, and mammals for students to study locomotor adaptations, function, and evolution. Uses 30-40 skeletons including large articulated lion, kangaroo, and deer.

Noland 443 skeleton lab Zoology/Botany 152: Introductory Biology. 5 weeks, Fall and Spring. 120 students/section, 18 sections Fall, 22 sections Spring.
Display large articulated skeletons and smaller skeletons. Uses 50-80 specimens of reptiles, birds, and mammals. Students develop hypotheses and design experiments to test relationships of various bone morphometrics.

Zoology 430: Comparative Anatomy. 4 weeks, Fall semester. 30 students/section, 4 sections.
~65 skeletons, mounts, models, and fluid specimens of vertebrates used for taxonomy lab and lab practical.

Zoology 521: Birds of Southern Wisconsin. 2 weeks, Spring semester. 20 students/section, 4 sections.
Display of ~250 bird skins, mounts, eggs, and nests. Students learn identification and concepts in conservation biology, taxonomy, diversity, extinction, and research methods involving birds that occur throughout Wisconsin.

Zoology 525: Animl Structural Design. 1 week, Spring semester. Not currently offered but will return. 30 students, 1 section.
Display of modern and early man, and primate skeletons, skulls, casts. Students learn morphological adaptations of primates. Uses 13 skeletons.

Three Zoology/Anthropology 699 courses are offered by museum staff: Museum Techniques Student with Zoo Specimen

Introduction to Museum Techniques
This course offers students an opportunity to learn the philosophies and methods of all aspects of museum work. Students gain hands-on experience in the following areas: Museum Administration (museum security, accessions, loans and collection management); Preparation of Museum Specimens (Preparing specimens as skins, skeletons, in fluid, and management of the Dermestid colony); and Final Preparation and Storage of Specimens (Cleaning skeletons, labeling, boxing, cataloging, and specimen storage); modern studies of material conservation are reviewed.

Archaeology: Faunal Analysis
Full Semester, Various times. This course provides a hands-on introduction to the principles and techniques for identifying and interpreting animal bones found at archaeological sites. By using the comparative osteological collections, students learn to 1) identify and classify faunal remains; 2) use quantitative techniques for recognizing assemblage-level patterns in bone data; and 3) achieve an understanding of how archaeologists translate such patterned evidence into reconstructions of past human behavior.

Museum Research
Full Semester, Various times. This course offers students the opportunity to carry out independent research projects and report their findings, using various comparative museum collections. Some common topics include skeletal pathology, anatomical variation, and zoogeography. Students work one-on-one with a museum curator to complete this course.

Please contact the museum if you are interested in participating in a directed study course or as a volunteer.

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Madison, Wisconsin USA
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Using Museum Resources for Education

Exhibit:

Classes:

Madison, Wisconsin USA ______________________________________________________________________

Using Museum Resources for Education

Exhibit:

Classes:

Madison, Wisconsin USA
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