Castle In The Classroom
Castle in the Classroom
Is it more convenient for us to visit you? If so, great news – we have five new programs specifically designed for your classroom!
Lucknow Innovation Challenge
- STEM
- Can be adapted for all grade levels
- Students learn the engineering design process and then work together in groups to create a prototype to solve a problem
Castle in the Clouds gratefully acknowledges these generous funders for their support of our Educational Programming Initiatives:
Marriott Daughters Foundation
The Eppes-Jefferson Foundation
The Foss Family Foundation
The Allan and Gail Gerrish Fund
The Haynes Family Foundation
The Kathleen B. and Charles R. Walgreen III Foundation
Human Timeline
- Social Studies
- Can be adapted for all grade levels
- Students work together to create an interactive timeline comparing Castle history with students’ personal history, NH History, US History or World History
What is Bias?
- Social Studies, ELA
- Middle School or High School
- Using primary documents, students investigate both sides of a conflict. Teachers choose whether students debate the issue in class or write an article explaining what happened – all facilitated by a Castle representative
Financial Planning
- Math and Social Studies
- Can be adapted for all age levels
- Students learn about Tom Plant and what it took to manage Lucknow Estate before learning how to budget and manage money during an activity that is reminiscent of The Game of Life.
Building an Estate
- Math
- Grades K-6
- Using perimeter and area, students become architects and interior designers as they figure out how to arrange Lucknow’s octagonal dining room.
New this year!
Inspired Poetry:
- English Language Arts
- High School
- Students analyze poetry inspired by Castle in the Clouds before creating their own poetry.
Becoming a Tour Guide:
- Social Studies and ELA
- High School
- Program that starts with students analyzing various sources to create a tour of Lucknow Mansion. Teachers can also choose to have students work towards giving their tours to groups of their peers and/or families at Lucknow.
- Program is customizable depending on time-limits. This can be a two-day classroom program or expand to a PBL that also gets students on the Castle property and inside the Mansion.
Earn a Field Trip Business Planning:
- Economics, Math
- Middle School
- Students learn what it takes to create a business around a sellable product. Program can expand as students sell their products at the Castle in the Clouds gift shop and other local stores in order to use revenue to pay for a field trip to Castle in the Clouds.
- Program is customizable depending on time-limits. This can be a one-day classroom program or expand to a PBL that also gets students on the Castle property and interacting with their local communities as they sell their products.
For Additional Information
If you are interested in one of our Castle in the Classroom programs, please contact Debbi Finkelstein, Director of Education and Partnership, at (603) 476-5414 or debbi@castleintheclouds.org.
Interested in joining the Castle in the Clouds Teacher Advisory Group (C-TAG)
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You will want to access the Castle in the Clouds property by using 586 Ossipee Park Road as your GPS address. Please note that if you search for “Castle in the Clouds” you will be at a different entrance 2 miles down the road, which when open, is not wide enough to accommodate a school bus.
When our school bus arrives, take a right at the fork in the road so that Shannon Pond is on your left. Please proceed to our oversized vehicle parking, on the grass, just after the Café and green bathhouse building on your left-hand side.
