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This interactive program encourages students to think about how they move through their communities, and about how the past influences the present and future of city planning. Students will learn about the factors that influenced the founding, building, and settling of New Westminster while taking a tour of the museum’s galleries. Students will put this knowledge into practice by creating a LEGO city and consider how transportation factors into city planning.

Programs running before November 17, 2018 will include a special tour of our feature LEGO exhibition, People Gotta Move.

This interactive program will guide students in the exploration of the field of archaeology and how it allows us to understand past inhabitants of an area. Students will learn the proper technique and methodology to be used while excavating a site, artefact analysis, and hypothetical testing. Through hands-on specimen exploration and activities, students will gain an understanding of their local environment and the clues it holds to early inhabitants and their way of life.

https://www.alouetteriver.org/school-programs

Duration: 1.5 – 2 hours
Ages: Grades Pre K – 3.  This workshop can be adapted for Grades 4-12. Grades 5-12 can include a fish dissection in the fall.
Cost: $75

Purpose:

The different types of Pacific Salmon and their lifecycle are introduced in this program. Students will participate in interactive demonstrations and activities and will come away with an understanding of the trials and tribulations that salmon must face on their journey homeward. The program will include discussion of actions that the students and their families can do to protect salmon and their habitat.  In the fall it can include a fish dissection for Grades 5-12 onsite at the Allco Fish Hatchery.

https://www.alouetteriver.org/school-programs

Duration:  1.5 hours

Grade:  Pre K to 2

Cost: $75

Purpose:  It’s all about the cycle of life!  During our presentation we listen to frog calls from our area, look at pictures of various frogs and talk about the differences of frogs, toads, newts and salamanders, all a part of the amphibian family. The students are engaged in learning about the anatomy of a frog with our plastic display which we pull part in the form of a dissection. Created specifically to meet the learning outcomes of students Pre K to Grade 2.

https://www.alouetteriver.org/school-programs

Duration: 1.5 hours

Grade: 3 - 7

Purpose:  Dissect an owl pellet, reconstruct its skeleton, look at the owl food chain!  Discussion: what happens if we disturb, or disrupt owl food chain, how does this explain why species become endangered?  

Cost per group:  $75 including the owl pellets and dissection equipment

Shakespeare: In Action 

The ideal way to support your English/Theatre unit, these workshops give students the chance to play Shakespeare with our professional teaching artists through the use of voice, movement, and acting exercises. Workshops can focus on a specific play, or provide a general introduction to Shakespeare.

• Available year-round
• Up to 90 minutes long
• Up to 30 students per workshop
• Up to three workshops per day
• Workshops can focus on the story, the imagery or the language (or a combination of all three) in a particular play, or provide a general introduction to Shakespeare.
• $220 per workshop + travel

Learn about the history of printmaking in our museum gallery, then develop practical skills and create designs through a one-hour printmaking workshop. Students will use printmaking technology, terminology, and techniques to explore their creative expression through a hands-on workshop and produce collagraph prints on a printing press and relief prints. The program will place a particular emphasis on the prominent figures and print shops in New Westminster’s history as well as the role printmaking plays in fostering communication.

Programs running before April 28, 2019 will include a special tour of our feature exhibition, Getting the Word Out: The Printing Industry in New West.