FARMINGTON – Education rangers from the National Park Service will present the second of three teacher workshops to introduce their award-winning teaching kit on Saturday, Oct. 20.

Invited are students at UMF preparing to teach elementary school-age children and area middle school teachers whose focus is social studies or Maine studies. The kit, titled “Passamaquoddy History and Culture: A Traveling Teaching Kit for Grades Five to Eight,” won third place in the curriculum category of the National Association for Interpretation’s annual media award competition in 2006.

Meg Scheid, park ranger at Saint Croix Island International Historic Site in Calais, will facilitate the workshop.

Scheid will introduce participants to the kit’s hands-on teaching tools and engage them in related activities for the classroom.

The workshop will be held at the University of Maine at Farmington’s Roberts Learning Center from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Space is limited. Registration is on a first-come first-served basis and is being coordinated through Saint Croix Island International Historic Site at 454-3871 or by e-mailing [email protected].

Registration will be confirmed by e-mail. Workshop details, including upcoming registration deadlines, are posted on Saint Croix Island International Historic Site’s Web site at http://www.nps.gov/sacr/forteachers/professionaldevelopment.htm.

Information about applications for scaled stipends/scholarships is also available on-line.

The local coordinator at UMF is Associate Professor of Elementary Education Dr. Rebecca Berger. Questions can be directed to Berger at [email protected].