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Teacher Development WorkshopsThe Fifth Maine Regiment Museum offers professional development workshops for teachers. These workshops offer social studies lesson plans and promote inquiry-based learning strategies. The Captain, “Smiling Bill”, and the Carousel Horse:
What could be better for a summer workshop than a hands-on introduction to new curricular materials developed by the Fifth Maine Regiment Museum out on Peaks Island, Maine. Tour our museum. Learn about how your students can assume the role of a 1909 New York Times newspaper reporter who has been assigned to investigate and write about an island in Maine that has been dubbed the “Coney Island of Maine.” Then, after the workshop, consider spending the afternoon walking or biking the island, or just relaxing on one of our beaches! About the Curriculum: Students examine historic photographs, images of artifacts and historic documents, as well as historic architecture in order to interpret what historical forces brought together Captain William Trefethen, sharpshooter “Smiling Bill” Leavitt, and a little girl who loved a carnival horse named Jewels, on Peaks Island. Students gather, analyze, and document information and make corresponding interpretations which form the foundation of a newspaper account that tells the story about this time and place. Participating teachers will receive pre-visit, walking tour, and post-visit curricular materials. All curricular materials are designed to assist students in achieving the Maine Learning Results in Social Studies, and Science and Technology, as well as Language Arts, particularly if the teacher chooses to use the culminating activity. About the Workshop
Date: Friday, August 8th About the Authors Patricia Pierce Erikson is a museum educator who has taught museum studies, Native American Studies, and cultural anthropology for over 12 years. At the Washington State History Museum, Smith College, the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies, and Kimball Union Academy she designed curricula and programs so that students had the opportunity to analyze, interpret, or sometimes exhibit museum collections. Her collaborative work with the Makah Cultural and Research Center in Washington State led to the publication of Voices of a Thousand People: The Makah Cultural and Research Center (University of Nebraska Press). She currently serves as Instructional Consultant for the Fifth Maine and teaches in American and New England Studies graduate program at the University of Southern Maine. Kimberly Erico MacIsaac is a museum professional with over 15 years experience as a museum administrator, curator, exhibit designer, museum educator, and grant writer at the Yarmouth Historical Society and Spring Point Museum.As an independent museum consultant specializing in organizational change, collections care and grant writing, her past clients include the Friendship Museum, Kennebec Historical Society, and Eighth Maine Regiment Memorial Association. She is the author of The Casco Bay Islands 1850-2000 (Arcadia Publishing) and is co-editor of an Island At War: The Peaks Island Military Reservation 1942-1946. She currently serves as the Director/Curator of the Fifth Maine Regiment Museum.
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