Home School

Home School Days 2011/12

My Prairie Community

Date: March 23, 2012
Age:6-9 years old
Time: 930-1pm, ½ hr lunch
(parents optional, but encouraged)
Students build a giant 3-D map of our city, dress in costumes and handle artifacts as they learn about what makes different cultures unique. After a bag lunch, travel through the museum, using your body and imagination to role play the construction of buildings from Calgary’s past. Work together to build a child-sized log cabin in our Learning centre!
$15 per student
Add $3 per student to self-guide museum after 1:00pm with your family (no charge for adults or siblings during self-guide)

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Settle the West

Date: May 18, 2012
Age: 12-15 years old
Time: 930-1pm, ½ hr lunch
(parents optional, but encouraged)

Students who like a challenge will immerse themselves in history, exploring primary and historical resources, archival photographs and artifacts through self-directed learning. Students bring their research to life in a facilitator led interview. Following lunch, students take over and travel through the museum, determining what life was like for the Mounted Police and investigating the various perspectives of the immigrants that settled in Calgary after the NWMP arrival. The primary sources, archival photographs and critical thinking questions in the take-home booklet develop media and visual literacy skills needed to inquire about historical perspective.

$15 per student
Add $3 per student to self-guide museum after 1:00pm with your family (no charge for adults or siblings during self-guide)

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