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For Teachers:
About Captain Mac
Suggested
Ages / Grades
Age 10 (Grade 5) and up. "A Fabulous Class/Team Read" - "...ideal for either school reports or pleasure reading."
Enrichment
Activities
Take a field trip or enjoy a web visit to the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine.MacMillan's schooner, Bowdoin, was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1989 and is Maine's official state vessel.
Search online for "Schooner Bowdoin." There are many other sites, including:
Maine Maritime Academy, Maine Memory Network, and Bowdoin College.Celebrate Schooner Bowdoin's 100th Birthday!
Read about MacMillan in Maine: An Encyclopedia.
Enjoy this article by Capt. G. Andy Chase of Maine Maritime Academy, honoring Schooner Bowdoin's 100th birthday!
Check for Donald B.MacMillan in National Geographic. Many libraries have back issues or CDs of the magazine.
Read about Labrador's first snowmobile, which MacMillan took to Labrador in 1927. It was found buried under snow a few years ago, and it is now restored.
Download one or more of my PDFs: a map of MacMillan's world, Timeline of MacMillan's Life, a word search puzzle, an Arctic-Antarctic activity, a page of brainstorming ideas from a middle school teachers' conference.
Curriculum
Connections
Captain Mac will meet STEM requirements and curriculum standards in the following areas:
Language Arts, Science and Technology, History, Geography, World Languages, Mathematics.
Click here to download a PDF of this curriculum chart.
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| • Language Arts | READING: biography of a
notable American
WRITING: book reports, journals, letters RESEARCH: resource notes, selected bibliography |
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• Science and Technology
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Development of scientific research
in 20th century
Compare MacMillan's scientific research with today's methods Pioneering use of radio and aircraft in the Arctic Use of photography Compare the North Pole with the South Pole Naval architecture PHYSICAL SCIENCE: geology, weather, climate change, ice, magnetic poles, ionosphere LIFE SCIENCE: ecosystems, Arctic plants, animals, birds, taxidermy |
| • Social Studies: History | Chronology 1874-1970
World Wars I and II Arctic explorers and exploration Civil rights |
| • Social Studies: Geography | North America and Greenland
The North Pole Mapping coastlines Oceans and land masses |
| • World Languages | Compare and contrast cultural practices and perspectives
with our own
(Inuit, Inughuit, Naskapi Innu) |
| • Mathematics | Recording and analyzing data |