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Explore the Britannia Shipyards National Historic Site to learn about history of boatbuilding and its importance in Steveston. Students will explore different kinds of boat by participating in a boat scavenger hunt, a caulking demonstration, and more maritime-themed activities. These steps will then be applied to a boatbuilding activity, with each student making their own small wooden boat to bring home.

Looking for a new and exciting way to connect kids with Parliament? Sign your class up for The Parliamentary Play and Tour for Schools, an interactive new program that includes a guided tour of the parliament buildings and a travelling historical play on the grounds. 

The program runs from May 22 to the end of June, 2023.

Program Information:

The Parliamentary Play and Tour for Schools begins at the rear library steps. From there, the group will join a performance of My Place in Politics. This interactive, child-friendly travelling play that whisks audiences back in time, to 1947. They will meet suffragists, students, and the participants of the Chocolate Bar strike, who will teach them about different ways that Canadians have advocated for change in the past. Then, the group will enter the buildings for a guided tour that focuses on how change is made at the Parliament Buildings today. 

While The Parliamentary Play and Tour for Schools is fun for all grades, it has been designed with the Grade 5 and 6 social studies curricula in mind. The play focuses on participation and representation in Canada's systems of government and how groups developed a plan of action to address issues like discrimination, inequality, and the fight for human rights. It can also be modified to fit the Grade 10 Social Studies Curriculum.

This discovery kit is perfect for those teachers and students that are interested in learning more about the Kootenay-Boundary’s plant and animal life. The kit includes five activities based around identifying local plants and animals, invasive species, and indigenous use. You even figure out how to measure a tree with a straw! This kit is suitable for kindergarten to grade 7, with curriculum links to Social Studies, Science, and Mathematics.

Explore the historic houses and engage in story time and eye-spy activities to learn about Steveston's unique cultural community. Students will participate in a shopping relay game while representing a family that may have lived in this community. Experience what life may have been like for the workers, families and children from diverse cultures who lived and worked here together. 

Water is powerful, and small droplets become a force that shapes the landscape. Peek into a small tributary of Lynn Creek and see some of the many animals who live there. Learn about their life cycles and explore some of the characteristics that help these animals survive in their aquatic habitat.

Invite OWL (Orphaned Wildlife) Rehabilitation Society to join you in your classroom to learn about the amazing species of raptors that call BC home, the features and adaptations that make them unique, their life cycles, and about the dangers they face and how you can help. You also get the chance to meet some of OWL’s Raptor Ambassadors up close in person! Each program will be focused to each grade level that is participating.

Have a specific topic in mind? We are more than happy to work with you to make the program you are looking for. Some popular requests include focusing on a specific species, such as owls or just hawks, life cycles, or food chains.

https://www.owlrehab.org/education/in-class/

Talking Trees – Student Program (K to Grade 12)

Welcome to our TALKING TREES - School Program | Presented by Talaysay Tours

Type of Program:  Student Indigenous Walking Tour - Ecology

Tour Description:  This is a walking tour in Stanley Park. Your Talaysay Cultural Land Ambassador(s) / Guide(s) will take you on a forest walk and teach the rich stories and history of the land while you learn how the trees and plants are used by indigenous people for both food and medicine.  Learn to identify a variety of indigenous plants and tree species  so when you venture into the forest you too will know what is edible, medicinal and adaptable for technology.   Emphasis on Indigenous Ways of Knowing, Sustainable Practices and Ecology. 

Date of Tour:  Monday to Friday

Start Time:  10:00 am   End Time:  11:30 am    Duration:  1.5 hrs  We can book custom times between 9:00 am and 10:30 am for the morning tour and 12:00 pm and 1:30 pm for the Afternoon Tour.

Includes:  Guide-Ambassador-Instructor.  At times we have a co-guide, a trainer and or a trainee. The tour is rich with Indigenous stories and interpretation.  Students have the opportunity to discuss and ask questions during the tour and or in the last 15 minutes of the tour.  

Student Rate with 20 or more participants:  $32.00 / participant + GST & Fees (This Rate is for K to 12 Students Only). 

With 20+ students, 1 teachers or adult volunteers is complimentary.  When there are less than 20 students, the base rate is $640 + GST & Fees.

Primary Location:  Stanley Park:

This tour meets at the Stanley Park bus loop which is accessible by car, taxi, bus or by foot. Our guide will meet you under the gazebo in the bus loop. Please note, if driving by car, the parking lot is all pay parking. If taking the public bus, it is the #19 bus to Stanley Park and it is the last stop.  
If traveling by school bus, the driver can drop the students off then park at the designated bus parking in Stanley Park.  

Please provide yourself plenty of time to arrive and find your guide.

Custom Locations: 
When planned in advance, our Cultural Land Ambassadors could travel to a forest area near your school.  Review of the site for safety, access and diversity in Indigenous plants is required. There is an additional $115.00 + GST & Fees cost for travel related fees for us to come to a custom location.

Inquiring and Bookings:  Please email info@talaysay.com or contact us at 1-800-605-4643 (Toll Free) or 604-628-8555 (Vancouver line)

Our Tour Line-Up:

1. Talking Trees - Nature Based  (90 min)

2. Spoken Treasures - History Based (75 min)

3. Talking Totems - Art & Culture Based (60 min)

4. Love the Land - Nature & History (90 min) | North Vancouver

5. Salish Sea & Me - Ocean / Nature & History Based (90 Min)

6. Workshops & In-class presentations:
     We can turn any of our tours into a presentation / workshop. Contact us for activities.

Locations:  Vancouver, North Shore, Sunshine Coast, Squamish

Dates and Times:  can be customized with groups.

Wishing you a great week ahead and look forward to planning further with you both.

Media:

Land Based Learning:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahAFvrl90e4

Talking Totems:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww0P01Ehtgo

Spoken Treasures:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7JbZgnnNKg

Talaysay Virtual Tours:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZ-4KWXx5p0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-LY2tTLzrc

Liz V | Reservations Manager - info@talaysay.com 

Talaysay Campo | Co-Owner / Regional Manager

Talaysay Tours - Authentic Indigenous Cultural Experiences | www.talaysay.com