Information for teachers

• Using the site in a computer lab
• Publishing student work on this site
• Observatory Scavenger Hunt
• Sharing lesson plans
• Links

   

Using the site in a computer lab:

To use this site in computer lab, it is best to download the entire site and mount it on your local server. Your lab administrator may be able to download the site using a utility such as Web Whacker.

If your school computer or computer lab does not have Internet access, we can email the files to you (total size approx. 500K), and you can transfer them onto a floppy disk.

To reach us: If you can email directly from your browser, click on

Otherwise go to Pond Cove School for our address at Pond Cove School in Cape Elizabeth.

Publishing student work on this site

You may have noticed that some of these pages were adopted from research projects by third grade students. We would be pleased to publish any student work. We can even include student art work if you will scan it and attach the file to an email. As work comes in we will set up a new section called "Student Writing."

How to reach us: If you can email directly from your browser, click on

Otherwise go to Pond Cove School for our address at Pond Cove School in Cape Elizabeth.

Scavenger Hunt

Here is a fun and educational activity for one or two students at a computer or an entire class in a computer lab. This activity is an excellent introduction to Internet research skills.

Print a copy of the scavenger hunt (choose one):

• Observatory Scavenger Hunt 1 - (Easiest) This will print nicely on one page, but the type face will be a little bit jagged. You will not be able to copy and paste the text into a word processor document.

   

• Observatory Scavenger Hunt 2 - When you print this, the line spacing may not come out right, but the text will be sharp. You can copy and paste the text into a word processor document for editing.

Make copies for your students.The answers to all the questions on the scavenger hunt can be found on this site, but some of them are hard to find!

Sharing Lesson Plans

Have an interesting idea for a lesson plan about the Observatory? Share it with your peers. If these words -LESSON PLANS - are colored blue, then you can click on them to see what other teachers have sent in.

How to reach us: If you can email directly from your browser, click on

Otherwise go to Pond Cove School for our address at Pond Cove School in Cape Elizabeth.

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Greater Portland Landmarks wishes to thank Ren Wilkinson and the students of Pond Cove Elementary School for coordinating KidsPORT and  for the content of the KidsPORT web pages.  Their fundraising efforts collected over $5,000 for the restoration of the Portland Observatory.