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Classroom Resources
Explore Resources for the Classroom
Designed for use by both teachers and homeschool families, these lessons and activities will integrate learning about Maine into your classroom. These educational resources help students closely explore objects and artifacts from the museum’s collections, as well as topics related to special exhibits.
Learn about 1820 travel, women’s suffrage, WWI art, Malaga Island, or explore our Primary Source Sets and Virtual Scavenger Hunts.
Primary Source Sets
These packets include everything your school or homeschool needs to lead students through the process of learning with Maine-based primary sources. Students closely analyze documents, artifacts, images and sound recordings to discover different themes in Maine history.
How has work in Maine changed over time?
What is the history of incarceration in Maine?
What was going on at the time of Maine’s statehood?
How did past generations of Mainers deal with pandemics?
Traveling through Maine 200 Years Ago
Explore Maine woods and waters through an interactive digital map and journal from Joseph Treat and John Neptune’s 1820 journey to survey the new state. Designed for Grades 8-12.
100 Years to the Vote
Women’s Long Road: 100 Years to the Vote explores the women’s suffrage movement in Maine. The introduction and a series of three lesson plans encourage students to explore the topic through maps, political cartoons, and a recreated debate. Designed for Grades 4-12.
Reading Art: Mainers and World War I
This teaching guide and activities examine the contributions and experiences of Mainers during the war, focusing on propaganda posters and primary sources that reveal the messages being communicated to the public about the war, as well as the hopes and fears of the time.
Malaga Island, Fragmented Lives: History and Educational Materials
For teachers and students who wish to delve deeper into the story of Malaga Island, the museum has developed a range of materials to facilitate in-depth exploration of the themes of ethnicity, diversity, tolerance, environmental history, archaeology, civil rights, and social justice. Designed for grades 6-12.
Virtual Scavenger Hunts
Join us on a museum adventure with our Virtual Scavenger Hunts!
