LC Subject Heading: Universities & colleges
Item 71811
Aerial view of Colby College, Waterville, ca. 1950
Contributed by: Boston Public Library Date: circa 1950 Location: Waterville Media: Postcard
Item 6446
George French dorm room, Bates College, ca. 1901
Contributed by: Maine State Archives Date: circa 1901 Location: Lewiston Media: Glass Negative
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.