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Program Description & Details

Let's Design a Cleaner City

Fraser River Discovery Centre

FRDC is continuing to support schools during this pandemic with our newest offer: online school programs! Hosted through video conference software, an FRDC educator will lead your students through a fully interactive program, engaging them with the material by utilizing the latest tools in online and remote education.

Let’s Design a Cleaner City is an online program that empowers students to solve real world problems. In this program, students expand their knowledge of urban challenges by learning about major sources of urban and industrial pollution. Students will then use the design thinking process to imagine and create a cleaner city.

To participate in these programs, you will need:

A stable internet connection.
A device for each student (laptop, tablet, or chromebook, etc) with a stable internet connection. They will use this throughout the program for the interactive activities.
The ability to join the video conference with the FRDC educator. This can be done one of two ways: the teacher can join the video conference and project it with sound for the whole class to view; or each student can join on their device with headphones.

City:

Online

Duration:

For Grades:

3, 4, 5, 6

Months Available:

January, February, March, April, May, June, September, October, November, December

Days Offered:

Wednesday, Thursday, Friday

Times Offered:

9:00 am, 9:30 am, 10:00 am, 10:30 am, 11:00 am, 11:30 am, 12:00 pm, 12:15 pm, 12:30 pm, 1:00 pm, 1:30 pm, 2:00 pm, 2:30 pm, 3:00 pm

Maximum Students:

Offered In French:

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Life In the Trenches

Port Moody Station Museum

Life in the Trenches (grades 4-12) Tour a CPR station and reflect on the impact of WWI and life in the trenches. Visit the Centennial McKnight Trench under construction on the Museum grounds. A tour of the Centennial McKnight trench is included and dependent on conditions. Activities include scavenger hunt and writing a letter about life in the ‘trenches’. This 75 minute program engages and develops the students abilities to reflect on difficult times and the sacrifices that soldiers made for Canada. Activities and discussions bring awareness of the roles and impact WWI had on the soldiers and our community.

City:

Port Moody

Duration:

For Grades:

4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

Months Available:

January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December

Days Offered:

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday

Times Offered:

9:30 am, 10:00 am, 10:30 am, 11:00 am, 11:30 am, 12:00 pm, 12:15 pm, 12:30 pm, 1:00 pm, 1:30 pm, 2:00 pm, 2:30 pm, 3:00 pm

Maximum Students:

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Offered In French:

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Program Description & Details

Living Dinosaurs: The White Sturgeon

Fraser River Discovery Centre

(Grades K-7) Assess the survival needs of white sturgeon with a special focus on evaluating human impacts on the environment. The program includes hands-on stations about sturgeon life cycle and anatomy, and a sturgeon survival game focused on the habitat needs of sturgeon in the Fraser River.

This program is divided into:

Introduction to the Centre and Program Content (5 minutes)
PowerPoint (15 minutes)
Stations (20 minutes each)
- Anatomy and Life Cycle (Explore the life cycle stages of the river sturgeon with our life sized model and perserved samples)
- Sturgeon Survival Game (Consider the obstacles in the different stages of a sturgeons life with this consequence judgement game)
- Station #3 is Age Dependent
  - Felt Board Habitat (K-2) (Explore and create a narrative story around the life of sturgeon)
  - Water Testing (2-3) (Use the scientific method to test a water sample taken by the class from our boardwalk)
  - Tagging Lesson (3-7) (Role-play as marine biologists, using the math inquiry that they would to learn more about sturgeon)
Conclusion, Theatre (10 minutes)

For more information, visit our website or email us.

Online booking form here.

City:

New Westminster

Duration:

For Grades:

K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

Months Available:

January, February, March, April, May, June, September, October, November, December

Days Offered:

Wednesday, Thursday, Friday

Times Offered:

10:00 am, 12:30 pm

Maximum Students:

Offered In French:

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Local Ecology Kit

Rossland Museum and Discovery Centre

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.

City:

Rossland

Duration:

Outreach Kit/Online Resource

For Grades:

K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

Months Available:

January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December

Days Offered:

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday

Times Offered:

Outreach Kit/Online Resource

Maximum Students:

See Additional Notes.

Offered In French:

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Loop Scoop (grades 4-6)

Langley Environmental Partners Society

Taking a closer look at the "life story" of everyday objects, students discover the true "cost" in terms of environmental impact in the production, distribution and disposal of products. Students are empowered to consider putting into practice a second set of 3 R's: Refuse, Repair and Repurpose.

City:

Langley

Duration:

For Grades:

4, 5, 6

Months Available:

January, February, March, April, May, June

Days Offered:

Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday

Times Offered:

9:00 am, 9:30 am, 10:00 am, 10:30 am, 11:00 am, 11:30 am, 12:00 pm, 12:15 pm, 12:30 pm, 1:00 pm, 1:30 pm, 2:00 pm, 2:30 pm

Maximum Students:

Offered In French:

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Program Description & Details

Lost Toys

Museum of Vancouver

Little Victoria lived in Vancouver a long time ago. Hear the story of her lost doll through five generations of her family. Play with toys from each generation and see the evolution of toys overtime. Students are invited to consider technologies, culture, and environmental impact. Role-play archaeologists and discover toys like Victoria’s.

City:

Vancouver

Duration:

For Grades:

K, 1, 2

Months Available:

January, February, March, April, May, June, September, October, November, December

Days Offered:

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday

Times Offered:

10:00 am, 12:00 pm

Maximum Students:

Offered In French:

Yes

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Machines at Work online (Grade 4-6)

Gulf of Georgia Cannery National Historic Site

Theme:

Simple machines are the building blocks to complex machines

Complex machines work in tandem to produce products
Everyone and every machine have a part to play

Description: This 60-minute online workshop is an interactive presentation about compound machines and an assembly line (the canning line) tour led by Gulf of Georgia Cannery National Historic Site programming staff. Students will take the roles as “detectives” and will explore three key complex machines.

This unit includes:

Complete unit design (no need to add any extra work)
60-minute workshop online (ZOOM)
Kahoot! quiz
An optional classroom kit (loaned) with wooden simple machines
Word search
Multiple activities
Two scavenger hunts
Historical photos and videos
Offered in English or in French

Bonus: A physical kit can be booked on loan for a week for no extra cost. It includes wooden replicas of simple machines. The kit must be picked up at the Gulf of Georgia Cannery National Historic Site in Steveston. Instructions will be included to help students deepen their knowledge on how the simple machines work.

City:

Vancouver

Duration:

For Grades:

4, 5, 6

Months Available:

January, February, March, April, May, June, September, October, November, December

Days Offered:

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday

Times Offered:

10:00 am, 10:30 am, 11:00 am, 11:30 am, 12:00 pm, 12:15 pm, 12:30 pm, 1:00 pm

Maximum Students:

Offered In French:

Yes

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Man the Oars and Chart the Coast

Vancouver Maritime Museum

Experience what life at sea would have been like over 200 years ago! Discover the significance of Captain George Vancouver’s voyage to the Pacific Northwest. Learn about the challenges he and his crew faced and how they overcame them.

City:

Online

Duration:

For Grades:

4, 5

Months Available:

January, February, March, April, May, June, September, October, November, December

Days Offered:

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday

Times Offered:

10:00 am, 12:30 pm

Maximum Students:

Offered In French:

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Marketing Day at Playland

Pacific National Exhibition

Students self-navigate Playland in order to answer questions about the park’s operations. Questions are designed to get students thinking about the business aspect of running an amusement park and the factors that need to be considered when establishing its procedures and policies. In 2024, the program will run along side our Amusement Park Science Program. https://www.pne.ca/playland/schools/

City:

Vancouver

Duration:

See notes.

For Grades:

8, 9, 10, 11, 12

Months Available:

May

Days Offered:

Wednesday, Thursday

Times Offered:

10:00 am

Maximum Students:

See Additional Notes.

Offered In French:

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Marvelous Micro:bits Virtual Workshop

Science World of British Columbia

This virtual workshop will introduce students to coding with random generators and arrays within micro:bit classroom.

NO PHYSICAL MICRO:BIT REQUIRED.

In this workshop we will work to familiarize your students with coding within the micro:bit classroom, opening up the opportunity for you to continue using micro:bit lessons with your class.

Students will learn how to create, access, and changes lists as well as explore the uses of inputs and random numbers. They will work towards creating a random generator to help them solve the everyday problem of “I’m bored, what should I do?”

This workshop will cover basics, variables, arrays, and input and leaves room for possible further extension. This activity can be done entirely using the online simulator if no physical micro:bit is available.

Find out more about Marvelous Micro:bits Virtual Workshop

City:

Online

Duration:

For Grades:

7, 8, 9

Months Available:

January, February, March, April, May, June, October, November, December

Days Offered:

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday

Times Offered:

9:30 am, 11:00 am, 1:00 pm