School

Outreach

Historic Saranac Lake leads tours of the Saranac Laboratory Museum, downtown, and area historic sites. We make in-class presentations and coordinate oral history projects. We host a summer workshop for teachers. We serve hundreds of area students each year, elementary through college age. Contact us to arrange a tour.

An annual NYSCA Arts in Education Grant supports collaboration with local artists to connect seventh graders to local history.  The project has included participation by photographer Mark KurtzLed and author Liza Frenette. Click to view Student Cure Cottage Slideshow.

Recently, the Hyperion String Quartet led workshops on the music of Béla Bartók for Saranac Lake high school music students. Music theory, chorus and concert band students of teachers, Keith Kogut and Drew Benware learned about the great composer’s work and the time he spent in Saranac Lake during the last summers of his life. This program was made possible by the Jody Sandhaus-Malinverni Memorial Fund, in celebration of Jody’s great love for Saranac Lake.

TEACHING RESOURCES

Materials for all age levels

  • Lung Tissue Powerpoint: Healthy, TB infected, and flu infected tissue. Developed by Mike Tighe, Trudeau Institute
  • Schistosomaisis Powerpoint by Tori Freitas, Ph.D. and Edward Pearce, Ph.D., Trudeau Institute.
 

High School Resources — developed by Tammy Morgan, Lake Placid High School, and Randy Young, Saranac Lake High School

 

Middle School Resources developed by Amy Jones, Carmen Ordonez, and Eileen Leahy, Saranac Lake Middle School

 

Elementary School Resources developed by Suzanne Brosseau, Petrova Elementary School

2013 7TH GRADE CURE COTTAGE SLIDESHOW

An Arts in Education project supported by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature