The CCLC works with community members, schools, local organizations and others to design and provide learning experiences and opportunities to students within the public schools that may not be available within the school  system.
Examples of experiences the CCLC offered in the past included sessions during the 2001 and 2004 Cobscook Gatherings, the 2002 summer landscape architecture course, and intensive Summer School courses.
Additionally, the CCLC offers field trip experiences to local public schools, home schoolers, and youth clubs. Each summer the center also offers credit courses for high school students in English, Math, Science, Languages and the Arts. Click here for current offerings.
If you are a teacher or group leader and are interested in scheduling a field trip, please find more detailed descriptions of our field trip offerings below. Also, click here for our Field Trip Letter to Educators. To schedule a field trip, please call 733-2233 or
kara@thecclc.org.
2006-2007 Field Trips
All field trips are customized to your group with special consideration to the learning outcomes you hope to achieve with any session. Any of these fiend trips can be expanded to longer and more in-depth sessions. Please call to discuss details.
Ceramics and Clay Creations
In this hands-on field trip, students will learn about the art and science of ceramics with CCLC potter Kevin Thompson. This experience is designed to introduce participants to common hand building techniques through the creation of one or two hand-made pieces. In addition to learning about clay and glazes, students will learn about the physical and chemical changes that take place during firing. Students will also have the opportunity to watch a master potter demonstrate the use of a potter’s wheel.
A trip to the pottery studio can be designed as a one-time visit or as a multiple visit experience. Students can return after their pieces have gone through the first firing to glaze them, participate in or observe the firing process, or focus on a specific method such as raku firing. If designed as a one-visit experience, fired pieces will be returned to your school for decoration in the classroom.
Ceramics Field Trip Fee Schedule (Up to a 2 hour visit)
6—12 Students $15 per student
13—24 Students $13 per student
Let’s Go Camping!
Join us for an overnight session at the CCLC. Students will learn and practice the skills around safely and comfortably enjoying a night in the outdoors, including setting up a tent, starting a fire, cooking over a camp stove, and camp / outdoor safety. Included in this session is a guided night hike, games, stories, and two meals (dinner and breakfast).
Maximum number of students: 15
Program Fee: $350
Meals Fee: $5 per participant
Folk Song Traditions
This program features songs and tunes reflecting life in Downeast Maine. Alan Furth has been playing old time music since 1971 and is a founding member of Washington County’s Black Socks String Band. Kara McCrimmon is a masterful musician with a focus on the Irish whistle, guitar and Highland Pipes. Both Kara and Alan sing old and contemporary songs as well, and will engage students in the traditions, stories and heritage of Downeast folk music.
For groups that would like something with a more active twist on folk music explorations, we can tailor this program to focus on contra dancing, a traditional form of dance and community entertainment with deep roots in New England. Contra dances are derived from the older English Country Dance, and are accompanied by old time jigs, reels, polkas and other traditional dance tunes.
Program Time: 2 hours
Program Fee: $150
Minimum number of students (for contra dancing): 8
Maximum number of students (for contra dancing): 24
Listening To Nature
Observation skills...increased awareness...connecting with the natural world. Listening to Nature is a program which includes games and activities in an outdoor setting to help students practice the skills associated with becoming keen and curious observers in nature. This program can be tailored to include a focus on wildlife signs and tracking, birding skills, explorations in animal adaptations, or journaling and sketching.
Program Time: 2 hours
Program Fee: $125
Maximum number of students per session: 15
Science Studies
CCLC staff can offer a variety of science and ecology programming, and will work with you to customize topics and activities to your class and curriculum. Each hands-on program is conducted primarily outdoors. Specializations in ecology explorations include:
Watershed Studies—What is a watershed? What is groundwater, and how is it connected to surface water? Where does your drinking water come from? What is pollution and how does it affect our water? Through games, hands-on activities and model building, these questions are explored in this session.
Downeast Geology—What can the shoreline of Cobscook Bay tell us about Maine’s past? A hike will lead us to a variety of landforms that will help us interpret our region’s geologic past. During this workshop students will learn about how common rocks are formed and classified, and will hike to landforms that offer clues about the geology of our area.
Program Time: 2 hours; up to 4 hours for Downeast Geology
Program Fee: $125—$200 (depending on time)
Max. number of students: 20
Outdoor Survival Skills
If your students were lost in the woods, would they know what to do? In this program, students will be introduced to basic map and compass skills, will utilize group skills to construct a survival shelter, and will learn safe fire building skills.
Program Time: 2 hours
Program Fee: $125
Materials Fee for survival kits (optional): Call for current fee
Max. number of students: 20
Four Dragons
Reader’s Theater Project with Gary Bushee
This is a participatory reading enrichment program geared
for children in grades 2-4. The project enables children to  act out a Chinese
creation myth, the tale of the four dragons who bring rain to the Chinese
people. Music, movement, and song, along with large scale dragon puppets, props
and costumes, are used to introduce children to traditional Chinese culture. Reader’s Theater is an excellent way for young
people to develop their reading skills and to explore some fundamentals of
acting and storytelling as well as music and dance from this ancient Asian
culture.
Program Length: The Four Dragons project is designed as a
four part session. The first three
sessions are three hours each; the fourth is a performance which classrooms may
choose to open to other classrooms and the community.
Program Fee: $400
Le Brigade de
Musique with Gary Bushee
This program introduces songs, stories, music and
dance from Acadian and Quebecois cultures, incorporating tunes and dances in
the French tradition of New England and
Eastern Canada
with fiddle, harmonica, mandolin and guitar. Learn about the folklore,
folkways, and history of people from along the Evangeline Trail. This program
is designed for elementary school children of all ages.
Program Length: up to 2 hours
Program
Fee: $125
Celtic Twilight with Gary Bushee 
This is an enrichment program that operates within
both the literary sphere and the oral tradition. Hear Irish myths and legends,
songs and harp airs in the Celtic tradition of
Ireland
,
Scotland
, and
Wales
. Harp
lore and history and demonstrations on a Celtic harp are also included. This
program is tailored for elementary and middle school students.
Program Length: up to 2 hours
Program
Fee: $125
Metal Magic - The Art of Blacksmithing with Sidney Hughes
Take a trip to a working blacksmith’s shop in
West Lubec
. Students will learn all about the tools and techniques  involved in
turning a raw piece of iron into a functional tool or decorative piece. Traditional tools (no electricity here),
craftsmanship, and history are all woven into this interactive program. This program is designed for upper elementary
through high school students.
Program Length: up to 2 hours
Program Fee: $125
Self-Design Field Trip Options
We would love to work with your ideas for field trips at the CCLC. Please contact our program director to discuss possibilities: 733-2233 or
kara@thecclc.org.
To schedule a field trip, please call 733-2233 or
kara@thecclc.org
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