In looking through this website I was amazed at the kind of things that have been kept on record for the past hundreds of years. I searched my town and found a picture of the railroad tracks that used to run along side the river. It was from the 1800s! I also looked at a lesson plan called "Create your own Colony." This was a very neat idea of a teacher using this website. Students answered some key questions as to what they might see or hear standing at the mouth of the Kennebec River hundreds of years ago. I also read an article about how students were using this website for educations uses at Skowhegan Area Middle School. They were looking at records of people they had learned about in class as well as looking at pictures and enlarging them to see detail--very cool stuff.
There probably isn't a whole lot I could use this website for in my classroom as a math teacher. If I used it for anything I might have my students look up math history or math records in the state of Maine if applicable. I also might have students envision themselves living in a time back a few hundred years ago, getting research from the website, and doing math problems with the technology that they had back them. It might be a bit of a stretch, however, it is a twist and might keep students interested.
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