Curriculum Related Programs

The Children's Museum is proud to offer a series of engaging, hands-on, curriculum based education programs.

Every program offered at The Children's Museum will include:

1. A Pre-Visit Activity: to activate prior knowledge and introduce new concepts

2. A Timeline for the Museum Visit: so you know what to expect when you arrive

3. A Post Visit Activity with an Assessment Tool: that meets an Overall Expectation from the Ontario Curriculum

4. A List of Curriculum Expectations: that are covered in your program.

FEATURE PROGRAMS:

Medieval Week
Grade 4
May 3^rd to May 7^th, 2010

Calling all lords and ladies! Knights and Squires! Come explore the Middle Ages with The Museum and Blackthorn Productions!
Build a castle that can withstand the blow of a trebuchet! Try on some chain-maille! Watch the construction of a bow and arrow! Learn an authentic medieval dance! Witness a fight demonstration! View genuine medieval artifacts!
Students will travel through six workshops which will introduce them to the history and culture of the medieval period. They will be invited to touch and try on, get up out of their seats and witness history first hand!
Full day program from 10am to 2pm
Cost: $10 per student
Covers Curriculum Expectations for Grade 4 Heritage and Citizenship: Medieval Times

Children's Film Festival
Thursday June 3^rd , 2010

Join us at the Registry Theatre for the 1^st annual Children's Film Festival, where animated and live action Canadian films will inspire and educate youth, allowing them to experience this artistic experience and captivating medium!

Grades 1-3
9:30am-11:30am
Selected films and performance by Children's Entertainer Ronno!

Grades 4-6
12:00pm-2:00pm
Selected films

Cost:$7 per student

FEATURE EXHIBIT PROGRAMS:

Tech City
Grade 3
April 19^th, 2010 to June 29^th, 2010
Tech City is a traveling exhibition where visitors solve the kind of real-world problems that engineers face. This exhibit presents an engineering approach that includes opportunities for designing, building, testing and modifying.
An interactive tour of this exhibition is included in the education program Materials Matter for grade 3 students
Cost: $7 per student

CosmicMania: Our Space Rocks!
Grade 6
CosmicMania: Our Space Rocks! is a space exhibition which features components from the Canadian Space Agency, astrological photographs, as well as a Lunar sample from NASA!
An interactive tour of this exhibition is included in the educational program Space for grade 6 students.
Cost: $7 per student

HEALTH & PHYSICAL EDUCATION:

Kids in Motion: a Healthy Start
Grades JK - Grade 3

Participate in a cross-curricular physical activity and healthy eating program! Meet KiM, our Kids in Motion mascot, who will be your guide to investigating our internal organs in one of three hands-on stations. Stretch, move and groove while getting your body moving in our physical activity station. At the Smoothie Station learn about the importance of local produce while making and tasting your own healthy smoothie recipes. Learn all about the importance of making healthy lifestyle choices in a fun and interactive way!

KINDERGARTEN PROGRAMS:

Mission Possible (SK)

Use the tools in your Detective Kit to examine clues and experiment with evidence, then decide, "who did it!"
This program is 60 minutes in length.

Curriculum Expectations List

Meet the Museum (JK-SK)

This program has been designed especially for kindergarten aged children. While playing and experimenting with various exhibits within the museum, attention will be paid to developing teamwork and social interaction skills. The nature and length of each activity have been created with the interests and needs of our younger visitors in mind.
This program is 45 minutes in length.

Curriculum Expectations List

SCIENCE:

Through an exploration of the museum's exhibits, students will be introduced to different forms of energy, become a link in a food chain, and understand the importance of renewable resources!

This program covers every single expectation in the Science and Technology, Energy and Control Strand for Grade 1.

This program is approximately 60 minutes in length.

Grade 2: Kids Inspiring Change: Energy from Wind and Moving Water

Come explore and experiment with us. Students will be blown away as they actively investigate wind and moving water as forms of energy, and learn about their importance as resources on earth.

Curriculum Expectations List

This program is approximately 60 minutes in length.

NEW!
Grade 3: Materials Matter

Learn about different kinds of materials used to build structures and experiment with their strength! Students will participate in a variety of hands-on activities to help them investigate the concept of structural stability. Build your own Parthenon and test out the strength of a suspension bridge. Compare and contrast different building materials and build a tower.

Curriculum Expectations List

This program is 90 minutes in length.

Grade 4: Sounds DeLIGHTful

Students interact with museum exhibits and take part in activities that demonstrate properties of both light and sound. Students will illustrate light and colour mixing, experiment with wavelengths with the use of prisms and describe different types of waves (light and sound) and their characteristics.

Curriculum Expectations List

This program is approximately 90 minutes in length.

Grade 5: Kids Inspiring Change: Conservation of Energy and Resources

Students will discover the importance of the conservation of energy in relation to renewable and non-renewable energy sources. They will participate in interactive activities focusing on how we use different natural resources as sources of energy and the effect of their uses on the environment.

Curriculum Expectations List

This program is approximately 80 minutes in length.

Grade 6: Space

What does it feel like to travel into space? Come and find out! Blast off into space exploration and astronomy. Find out how the space environment is different from our environment on Earth. See a to-scale solar system (sun and first three planets) and discover just how big our sun really is! Learn how space research resulted in things that we enjoy everyday!

Curriculum Expectations List

This program is approximately 1.5 hours in length.

Grade 7: Heat

Students will "see heat" through our infrared camera! Discover what heat is, how it's transferred and how radiated heat helps us to solve problems. Identify natural sources of heat and experiment with alternative, environmentally friendly methods of heating and cooling food and drink!

Curriculum Expectations List

This program is approximately 2 hours in length.

VISUAL ART:

Grade 1,2,3: Along the Lines of Colour

Engage in this original and inspirational program on colour and line. Hands on creation allows kids to investigate, discuss and be introduced to the elements of design. Every child will finish by creating their very own masterpiece!

Grade 1 Curriculum Expectations List

Grade 2 Curriculum Expectations List

Grade 3 Curriculum Expectations List

This program is approxiamtely 1.5 hours in length.

Grade 4,5,6: Elements and Principles

Knowledge of the elements and principles of design will be developed in this interactive, hands-on art program. Kids will apply this information to create their very own masterpiece!

Grade 4 Curriculum Expectations List

Grade 5 Curriculum Expectations List

Grade 6 Curriculum Expectations List

This program is approximately 1.5 hours in length.

Grade 7,8: Composition and Perspective

Kids will use the Museum as their muse in this introductory photography program. Focusing on composition and perspective, students will expand their knowledge of the elements and principles of design. At the end of the day, students will take their photos home to show off their talents!

Grade 7 Curriculum Expectations List

Grade 8 Curriculum Expectations List

This program is approximately 1.5 hours in length.

LANGUAGE:

Grade 1,2,3: Literally Language!

Explore communication through history; from cave drawings to hieroglyphics to street signs. Express yourself in many different ways!

Grade 1 Curriculum Expectations List

Grade 2 Curriculum Expectations List

Grade 3 Curriculum Expectations List

This program is approximately 1 hour in length.

Grade 4,5,6: Technically Speaking

Museum Interpreters will enlighten students with the importance of story structure, themes and characters. Students then make their way around the Museum, receiving instruction from iPods and taking digital photographs which will become key pieces in the development of their story! Using story boards, students will weave their photos into a final composition to present live on microphone in our Grand Atrium!

Grade 4 Curriculum Expectations List

Grade 5 Curriculum Expectations List

Grade 6 Curriculum Expectations List

This program is approximately 2 hours in length.

MATH:

Grade 7,8: Math Kicks

Don't miss a beat with this innovative cross-curricular program that looks at math from a different angle. Combine movement with mathematics to learn and experiment at a new rhythm!

Grade 7 Curriculum Expectations List

Grade 8 Curriculum Expectations List

For more information please contact 519 749-9387 ext 229 or education@thechildrensmuseum.ca