3:00 pm

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

Beaver Lake is one of Vancouver’s last natural wetlands, and it is home to incredible plants and animals. What makes the wetland ecosystem a good place to live? How do diverse communities of animals eat their way along the food chain? Roll up your sleeves and explore Beaver Lake wildlife up close with dip nets, magnifiers and games.

Keywords: nature, park, parks, outdoor, outdoors, ecology, forest, wetland, hands-on, interactive, explore, conservation, animals, plants

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Go on a quest for nature knowledge! The Eco Quest takes your students through the Ecology Centre’s displays. Get interactive with our displays as you find the answers to the scavenger hunt questions and decode the secret message.

Optional: enjoy a short nature film in our theatre.

Immerse your students in the Universe with our digital portable planetarium. With our portable planetarium you will be able to stand on the Moon and look back at Earth, experience a Martian sunrise, and even see what the Milky Way galaxy looks like. 

The portable planetarium is a large dome that can be easily set up in any 7 x 7 x 4 metre (23 x 23 x 12.5 feet) space. The program consists of:

• Elementary School – up to 6 presentations / day (20-30 minute presentations).
• Secondary School – up to 4 presentations / day (40 minute presentations).
• Also available for community groups.

Written to support distance learning but also useful for physically distanced teaching, a Tech-Up Learning Kit contains resources for both synchronous and/or asynchronous lessons. The teacher guide walks you through leading student activities over a series of sessions of approximately 30-45 minutes. Student activities are handouts for students to work through on their own as assigned, according to your own timeline and discretion.

In these activities, students will be introduced to thinking algorithmically which is an essential skill for learning how to code. They will be explore the algorithms of dance, create algorithms to successfully navigate an obstacle course, and examine different algorithms while moving through and acting out a choose your own adventure story.

Tech-Up Learning Specialists are available to support you with these kits.

Find out more and request Active Algorithms Learning Kit