Your Donation For Giving Tuesday, November 27, 2018
Your Donation For Giving Tuesday, November 27, 2018
We have the ambitious goal of expanding and enriching our school field trip offerings at Fields Pond (Orrington/Holden) and Newfield. Your support can move us closer to that goal. We saw more than 1800 school visitors this year, and that means that teachers from more than two dozen schools regularly chose our hands-on experiential programming for their students.
Whether it be hand cranking a wooden washing machine and wringing out the water with a hand crank wringer, turning cream into butter, turning the handle of a burr mill and producing cracked corn that you get to feed to chickens, sending a message in Morse code using a telegraph key, using your manners in the little red schoolhouse, turning a electromagnet to produce a shock or making a diagnosis using X-rays, lifting a 100 pound anvil with a pulley system, using a lever to draw water from a well, pulling the handle of a letterpress to print, simulating the power of a horse on a treadmill, or…. You get the idea. These are some of the many formal and informal experiences that don’t happen in classrooms but continue to happen for school children at these living history villages with your donation. Helps us to expand and enrich the experiences for our future.
We are setting the bar high with a goal of raising $10,000 on Giving Tuesday, November 27. If we can achieve that in one day imagine what we can do to make memorable learning experiences this and future generation.
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