Mount Katahdin | Lessons for Grades K&3
Kindergarten
Visual Arts and Language Arts
Our Sense of Place
Paula Spector, Barbara Baston, and Beth Saufler
Great Salt Bay Elementary School, Damariscotta; Wiscasset Primary School,
Wiscasset; and Georgetown Central School, Georgetown, Maine
Kindergarteners build their observation skills by looking carefully at Mount Katahdin from Millinocket Camp and by taking nature walks at their schools. Students learn about “a sense of place” and write about and paint their own special places.
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Grade 3
Visual Arts
Exploring the Maine Wilderness
Nanci Nason
Lebanon Elementary School, Lebanon, Maine
As part of the Maine Studies curriculum, this unit enables students to explore the Maine wilderness through the eyes of Frederic Church and on adventures in their own surroundings. Students study Mount Katahdin from Millinocket Camp through looking and writing exercises, learn the elements of landscape painting, and go out in the environment around their school to discover their own personal landscape, which they express in a painting.
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Grade 3
Visual Arts, Language Arts, and Science
Digging Deep into Mount Katahdin
Marypat Bowen
Yarmouth Elementary School, Yarmouth, Maine
Mount Katahdin from Millinocket Camp is central to the classroom as the painting becomes the focus of several different areas of study. Careful looking at the painting is integrated with careful reading of a story to compare elements, style, mood, and theme. Science connections are especially rich as the class paints their own version of Mount Katahdin from Millinocket Camp in acrylic paint, on which they layer their studies of insects and rocks in Maine.