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Elizabeth Arntzen

Elizabeth Arntzen

Graduate Adjunct Faculty, Adventure Education and Canadian-American Studies

Contact phone number: (207) 581-4225
e-mail: barntzen@umit.maine.edu

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Betsy is based at the Canadian-American Center, on the campus of UMaine in Orono - at the crossroads of Atlantic Canada and New England. Betsy's national outreach and professional development programs address topics related to American and Canadian relations and understanding. Through workshops, presentations, publications, teaching materials, and in-Canada professional development programs, Betsy provides programming that seeks to bridge the gap between uninformed beliefs and a true understanding of Canadian people.


Betsy is the Director of the Atlantic Canada Teachers Institute, and the Office of Canadian Studies Outreach.

Degrees and Education

  • Maine Teaching Certificate: General Elementary (K-8), 1993-present
  • M.A., History Museum Studies, State University of New York at Oneonta, 1985
  • B.A., Anthropology, University of Maine, 1978
  • Studied at Memorial University (NL) and worked as an archeologist in Newfoundland, 1976-77
  • Participant, Atlantic Canada Faculty Institute 10-day study/tour in Newfoundland & Labrador, 2003

Recent Publications


Teaching Canada, national annual publication for K-12 teachers. Plattsburgh, NY: Center for the Study of Canada:
  • "Culture Focus: Acadians" (Vol. 23, 2005)
  • "Take a Field Trip to Canada - Without Leaving Your Classroom" (Vol. 22, 2003)
  • "Patent Canada: Canadian Inventors Have Changed the World" (Vol. 21, 2002)
"Topics from the North: A Canadian Study". Co-authored with K. McIntire, B. Chaplin, M. Hurd, J. Farley. In Collaborating to Meet Standards: Teacher/Librarian Partnerships for K-6, edited by Toni Buzzeo. Worthington, OH: Linworth Publishing Inc, 2002.

Content Editor for illustrated children's reference trade books:
  • Cultures of the World CANADA by Guek-Cheng Pang. NY: Marshall Cavendish, 2004
  • Discovering Cultures: Canada by Patricia J. Murphy. NY: Marshall Cavendish, 2004

Associations, Boards and Committees

  • Association for Canadian Studies in the United States
  • National Council for the Social Studies, and co-chair of Teaching Canada Special Interest Group
  • Northeast Regional Council for the Social Studies
  • Maine Council for the Social Studies
  • National Council for Geographic Education
  • Maine Geographic Alliance
  • Maine Association of Middle Level Educators

Academic Distinctions

  • 25 years teaching PreK-16 students, and training school, museum, and university educators
  • 15 years offering educators professional development workshops and teachers institutes in Canadian Studies and Museum Education
  • 3 years teaching Adult Education courses, and Elderhostel history courses

Web site dedicated to K-12 educators teaching Canada: Teaching Canada for a Global Perspective.
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