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Great Field Trip Opportunity

School Groups are welcome at the 2008 Common Ground Country Fair

Free Admission for school groups on Friday, September 19, 2008

This year’s Common Ground Country Fair takes place on September 19, 20 & 21 at MOFGA's Common Ground Education Center in Unity. We at MOFGA are excited to offer lots of fun and educational things for school groups to do at the Fair.

As you may know, MOFGA always opens the gates of the Fair to school groups of any grade level, including homeschoolers, and their teachers and chaperones for FREE on Fridays.

The procedure for school groups is as follows:

  1. Follow the traffic signs to the school bus parking area in the North Parking Lot as you approach the fairgrounds.
  2. Enter through the dedicated School Group Entrance at the Rose (North) Gate.
  3. Present a letter on your school letterhead indicating your group size (students, teachers, and chaperones) to the host at the School Group entrance.

That's it! there is no need to pre-register or order passes in advance.

Also, we offer the Fair Info Quest, a sort of directed educational scavenger hunt which may give your students some direction at the Fair and help them to more actively engage with the multitudes of things there are to learn about.

Downloads:

Info Quest

Info Quest Answer Key

These are word documents. Feel free to edit and modify them to your purposes. If you have trouble downloading them, contact Andrew Marshall, MOFGA's Educational Programs Director.

In addition to the Info Quest, the Fair offers many, many informal educational opportunities, which are described here and in the Fairbook.

For more information about the Fair, or to request copies of the Fairbook, please call the MOFGA office at 207-568-4142 or email MOFGA.

We hope to see you and your students at the Common Ground Country Fair!


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