LC Subject Heading: Universities & colleges--Maine
Item 17306
Nasson College, Springvale, after 1912
Contributed by: Sanford-Springvale Historical Society Date: circa 1913 Location: Sanford Media: Print from Glass Negative
Item 12574
Old Colby College, (downtown) prior to 1950
Contributed by: Colby College Special Collections Date: circa 1950 Location: Waterville Media: Photographic print
Lesson Plan
Building Community/Community Buildings
Grade Level: 6-8
Content Area: Social Studies
Where do people gather? What defines a community? What buildings allow people to congregate to celebrate, learn, debate, vote, and take part in all manner of community activities? Students will evaluate images and primary documents from throughout Maine’s history, and look at some of Maine’s earliest gathering spaces and organizations, and how many communities established themselves around certain types of buildings. Students will make connections between the community buildings of the past and the ways we express identity and create communities today.
