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Educational resources about Maine
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Legal
Maine DOE
Homeschool Access Law here.
Conferences & conventions in the region
No current conference or convention information found for Maine.
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Other events and resources
Homeschool hiking/biking annual event
May 23, 2010 - May 29, 2010
The homeschool hiking/biking annual event began in May 2005 as a way to gain recognition for homeschooling as well as getting some exercise, group involvement, and introducing homeschoolers and their families to hiking and biking in the great outdoors!! It is an annual event now and will be held each year the last full week in May all across the United States. We are asking for individuals and groups involved in homeschooling to set up events in their areas. If you would like to set up a group event in your area, please send your name, email address, phone, city and state to me at: homeschoolhikebike@hotmail.com
Co-ops
No co-op information found for ME.
Classes
Color Me Mine Enterprises - School Programs
Color Me Mine offers fun, education based classes for K-6 grades. We'll bring the classes to you or you can bring your group to our studio. Color Me Mine studios offer a safe, fun, and creative environment that's perfect whether working independently or in a group. We are happy to cater to a variety of ages in a single session. You set the schedule and you select the classes that fit your need.
Sanford/ York County
Get Fired Up
Pottery Painting
Westbrook
Art for Homeschoolers
Monday morning pottery painting just for homeschoolers. We will look at time periods and artists and then use the skills to paint our own piece of pottery. $25 per student (10%) discount for siblings. Call 854-3616 to reserve your spot or email dafodil316@gmail.com for more information
Most recent field trip listings for Maine
Making TRACKS - Trails in Maine
Making TRACKS provides downloadable nature guides and species lists for each trail, as well as resources for schools to make their own educational nature trails on school grounds or in nearby communities.
Bangor
Allagash Wilderness Waterway
The Allagash Wilderness Waterway was established to preserve, protect, and enhance the natural beauty, character, and habitat of a unique area. It is a magnificent, 92-mile-long ribbon of lakes, ponds, rivers, and streams winding through the heart of northern Maine's vast commercial forests. For more than a century The Allagash has been praised and enjoyed as a sportsman's paradise.
Presque Isle
Aroostook State Park
Aroostook State Park bears the distinct honor of being Maine's first state park. Campsites, a showerhouse, and a beach with a lifeguard are provided in season. A kitchen shelter built with loon license plate money can be used by campers daily during the summer season. Echo Lake is stocked with Brook Trout and public boat access is available. Hiking trails and canoe and paddleboat rentals are popular activities. Groomed cross-country ski trails are available in the winter. Groomed snowmobile trails also cross through the park.
Ashland
Deboullie Public Reserved Land
Deboullie's low rugged mountains and scenic remote trout ponds are all available for visitors using the 22,000 acre unit's hiking trails and campsites. Snowmobilers frequently pass through the unit on their way from Eagle Lake to the Allagash.
Ashland
Eagle Lake Public Reserved Land
Eagle Lake is a 23,000-acre unit including most of Eagle Lake in northern Maine. The unit abuts Square Lake to the east with a thoroughfare connecting the two lakes.
Bangor
Fort Kent State Historic Site
Fort Kent State Historic Site bears the distinguished honor as one of Maine's few National Historic Landmarks, a testimony to its important role in securing the state and national border. Named after Maine's Governor Edward Kent, Fort Kent served as Maine's northern post during the international border dispute during the Aroostook War, and is Maine's first, state-owned historic site.
Augusta
Houlton - Phair Junction Trail
The Houlton to Phair Junction trail is 40 miles long and extends from Houlton through the towns of Monticello, Bridgewater, Mars Hill, and loops through the southern edge of Presque Isle. The Houlton trail winds through forestland, small northern Maine communities and is open year-round for multiple use.
Prospect
Penobscot Narrows Observatory
A one-minute elevator ride will take you to one of the most unusual views in Maine, a 360 degree view from 420 feet above the Penobscot River, just a few miles up river from Penobscot Bay. Located atop the northern tower or pylon of the new Penobscot Narrows Bridge, the observatory gives visitors a spectacular look at mountains, lakes, and portions of Penobscot Bay.
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Support
Homeschoolers of Maine (HOME)
HOME was established in 1990 as a ministry to support Maine families in their God-given and constitutional right and responsibility to oversee the education of their children. Success is our hope and desire for every family that chooses to homeschool. Our ministry supports the family by monitoring legislation, holding an annual convention, providing workshops throughout the year, publishing our newsletter The Heart of HOME, providing free counseling to new and established homeschoolers, and much more.
Maine Home Education Association (MHEA)
Founded in 1987, is the only nonprofit, non-sectarian, statewide home educator's association in Maine. We are a member supported association managed by volunteers. Our mission is to support the right of Maine families to freely engage in home-based education as an alternative to traditional schooling. We believe that the best support of our right to homeschool is a large, diverse and well-informed community of homeschoolers.
Homeschoolers of Maine (HOME)
Local Support groups listed by towns
Maine Home Educators Association (MHEA)
Local Support Groups
MaineHomeschooling
A statewide email discussion group for homeschoolers to discuss issues that are relevant to homeschooling in Maine. This is a diverse list and different points of view exist. Maine Homeschooling hopes to be a place where all homeschoolers can feel comfortable to find support, information, and also to post information that they find useful in homeschooling their children.
Some of the topics you will see on the list include: different methods of homeschooling, help in getting started, national state legislation, resources, and announcements.
HomeSchool-ME
This is a list provided for all homeschooling families in the state of Maine to get to know one another. Since Maine has so much rural area, I felt that this list would be a great way for us to get to meet one another, share ideas and thoughts about homeschooling and keep up to date on the current events regarding our state and homeschooling.
Circle of Endless Friends Home Schooling Group
A Group for Home Schooling kids 11 to 14 in Southern Maine. The goal of the group is to allow kids to get together for various activities in and out of the house. These activities could range from crafts, field trips, cooking, community activities,learning new skills, movies, chatting, posting kid jokes, games, upload pictures to the file area, stories and much more.
The Discovery Center for Arts and Sciences
A Homeschooling Community Center and Support Group in Midcoast Maine
Waterboro Homeschooling Organization
A network of homeschool families that
offer support to all families interested in or who are currently homeschooling.
Homeschoolers Learning Group
We meet each Monday afternoons with our 7 - 8 year olds to do group activities in science, art appreciation, and games from around the world. Topic of study will change about every 4 months.
Bangor
Penobscot Valley Homeschool Association 4-H (PVHA4-H)
The central theme of 4-H education is "learn by doing." PVHA4-H is committed to assisting youth, and those adults working with them, in acquiring the knowledge, life skills, and attitudes that will enable them to become self-directing, contributing, and productive members of society.
Job opportunites for homeschool students
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