Keywords: Natural features
Item 135839
Cluster Quartz crystals in the Portland Society of Natural History, ca. 1965
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1965 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print
Item 135727
Leatherback turtle display at the Portland Society of Natural History, ca. 1965
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1965 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print
Item 151631
Fitzgerald house, Brighton, VT, 1888
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1888 Location: Brighton Client: George H. Fitzgerald Architect: John Calvin Stevens
Exhibit
CODE RED: Climate, Justice & Natural History Collections
Explore topics around climate change by reuniting collections from one of the nation's earliest natural history museums, the Portland Society of Natural History. The exhibition focuses on how museums collect, and the role of humans in creating changes in society, climate, and biodiversity.
Exhibit
For one hundred years, Acadia National Park has captured the American imagination and stood as the most recognizable symbol of Maine’s important natural history and identity. This exhibit highlights Maine Memory content relating to Acadia and Mount Desert Island.
Site Page
Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Cottagers
"… cottagers and visitors who were inclined toward nature and artistic or intellectual pursuits. Overall, their homes and hotels were less extravagant…"
Site Page
Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Inns
"… Off-season, Ted worked in the woods and turned natural materials into items to sell: “My dad used to do quillwork when I was a boy – and I always…"
Story
Restoring the Penobscot River
by John Banks
My role as the Director of the Department of Natural Resources for the Penobscot Indian Nation
Story
Warming Oceans
by David Reidmiller, Gulf of Maine Research Institute
The rate of warming in the Gulf of Maine is faster than that of more than 95% of the world’s oceans
Lesson Plan
Wabanaki Studies: Stewarding Natural Resources
Grade Level: 3-5
Content Area: Science & Engineering, Social Studies
This lesson plan will introduce elementary-grade students to the concepts and importance of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and Indigenous Knowledge (IK), taught and understood through oral history to generations of Wabanaki people. Students will engage in discussions about how humans can be stewards of the local ecosystem, and how non-Native Maine citizens can listen to, learn from, and amplify the voices of Wabanaki neighbors to assist in the future of a sustainable environment. Students will learn about Wabanaki artists, teachers, and leaders from the past and present to help contextualize the concepts and ideas in this lesson, and learn about how Wabanaki youth are carrying tradition forward into the future.
Lesson Plan
Grade Level: 6-8, 9-12, Postsecondary
Content Area: Science & Engineering, Social Studies
This lesson presents an overview of the history of the fur trade in Maine with a focus on the 17th and 18th centuries, on how fashion influenced that trade, and how that trade impacted Indigenous peoples and the environment.
