Homeschool

Have you ever wondered how amphibians can live in water and on land? Through play and exploration your students will learn about amphibians’ lifecycles, habitat types, food, and predators.

We will peek in our seasonal pond and explore the forest to look for amphibians, their habitats and prey.

Playland presents Amusement Park Science & Physics, an enrichment experience designed to enhance your student’s knowledge and understanding, and to demonstrate how the Science & Physics they learn in the classroom applies to the world around them. Since 1988, over 100,000 students from BC have experienced Science of Fun and Science & Physics Days at Playland. Students can learn about the acceleration on the Roller Coaster and G-force on the Hellevator. A curriculum guide is provided with grade appropriate experiments developed by Jim Wiese, author of Amusement Park Science, and hosted by Playland. https://www.pne.ca/playland/schools/

Our FREE Port of Vancouver Discovery Centre field trip experience is specifically designed to support grade four to six students’ curriculum guidelines, as outlined by the British Columbia Ministry of Education. Your students will learn about Canada’s largest and most diversified port through activities that encourage:

• learning through doing, touching, watching, hearing and reading
• reflection and inquiry
• thinking critically and creatively
• communicating individually and in groups through actions, words and pictures

This is a free, 90-minute interactive fieldtrip experience where students get to learn how their lives are connected to the port and see the connection by observing the working port around the Burrard inlet.

Build on your students’ awareness of the importance of trade in our lives, as well as the role that we play in facilitating trade, through activities such as:

• Connecting your port city trivia challenge: Students answer questions and test their knowledge of the port on touch-screen panels.
• Cargo match: Students work together as terminal operators and try their hand at loading various cargo types in this ‘get up and go’ activity.

Book this FREE and exciting school program at the Port of Vancouver Discovery Centre (located at Canada Place). If you have any additional questions, please contact: education@portvancouver.com.

Visit the Museum on your own. Gallery resource materials are available to support and enhance your self-directed exploration.

Self-guided visits can take place in our Vancouver History Galleries and/or our featured exhibits. The following temporary exhibits will be featured in 2024/2025:

1. Cesna?em: The City Before The City
2. That Which Sustains Us
3. Unity Indigenous Plant Garden
4. The Work of Repair: Redress & Repatriation at the Museum of Vancouver
5. Deep-Seated Histories: Chairs from the Collection
6. Future Makers: Chairs by New Designers

3 hours. Winter safety awareness and skills are practiced through a fun survival scenario on snowshoes. Be prepared to spend plenty of time digging and playing in the snow! Combine with Tubing or Tobogganing for a full day!

How do trees and animals survive under a blanket of snow? Discover the amazing adaptations that allow them to do so while while learning winter safety basics. On snowshoes! Combine with Tubing or Tobogganing for a full day! New* snowshoe location for K-3's. Meet us at Enquist Lodge and enjoy quicker access to easier trails. Ask us where to stay and play in the snow afterwards!

Subtopic: Migration Journeys (45-60 minutes, $145)

Play an immigration game through our Vancouver History Virtual Galleries. Explore the galleries and examine suitcases from immigrants while collecting points and money towards immigrating. This program focuses on who immigrates and why, the quality of life for new immigrants, and immigrants’ contributions to Vancouver from the 1900s to the 1950s.

Subtopic: A Seat at the Table (45-60 minutes, $145)

Discover Chinese immigrants’ stories from MOV’s A Seat at the Table exhibition. Reflect on the diversity of their experience in British Columbia, the challenges they faced, their resilience, and their pursuit of justice.*

*An Education Kit is available for this subtopic ($55/week)