Fraser River Discovery Centre
Our Trips
(Grades 2-5) Through experience and roleplay, students learn how industries take on the responsibility of spill clean-up on the Fraser River, and learn about their connections to the use of resources.
Key Messages:
- We all have a responsibility to care for the environment.
- Taking preventative steps is important for preventing accidents.
- Currently, in Canada we all use materials that can be harmful if not used properly.
- Companies try their best to be preventative and our government imposes rules on them to help, but we still must be prepared for the accidents that will inevitably happen.
This program is divided into:
- Introduction Outside (10 minutes)
- Puppet Show with Oscar (10 minutes)
- Stations (20 minutes each)
- Spill Response Drill (Role-play problem solving activity demonstrating the roles of different groups during an oil spill)
- What Do We Use Oil For? (Exploratory activity investigating household objects made from oil)
- Secret Item Game (Matching game and discussion about imports and exports in BC)
- Conclusion (10 minutes)
For more information, visit our website or email us.
*In the 2020-2021 school year, this program may be available for in-class outreach, with an educator and all the materials coming to your school in-person. To provide us with more information on what you would like from in-class outreach, fill in our survey.
(Grades 6-9) Follow each step of the scientific method to conduct a water quality investigation. During this 2 hour workshop students observe and become curious about the Fraser River, do background research, construct hypotheses, test their hypotheses by doing experiments, analyze their data, draw a conclusion, and report their results. Students determine whether the current temperature, pH, and turbidity will or will not be above acceptable levels for salmon survival.
This program is divided into:
- Introduction Outside (5 minutes)
- Observe and Conduct Background Research
- Observe the Fraser (outdoor observation and water sample collection 20 minutes)
- 5-minute transfer to upstairs exhibit gallery
- Background research (10 minutes upstairs exhibit search, 10 minutes presentations)
- Construct hypotheses (10 minutes)
- Stations (25 minutes each)
- Turbidity Testing Station
- pH Testing Station
- Conclusion (10 minutes)
For more information, visit our website or email us.
Outreach Wednesdays!
Can’t come to the Fraser River Discovery Centre? No problem! We can come to you! Two FRDC staff will bring all the materials necessary to run some of our most popular River School Programs right in your own classroom!
All materials will be fully sanitized between use, and the staff will wear masks. If there are additional safety protocols we need to follow, please contact us. Please note, small group work is part of each program, with frequent sanitation of touched objects.
Cost: $7 per student, plus $0.59 per kilometer between FRDC and your school.
When: Wednesdays
To provide us with more information on what you would like from in-class outreach, fill in our survey.
(Grades 4-7) Explore local Indigenous People's connections to the environment by comparing traditional salmon fishing tools, and learn how Aboriginal people preserve their culture from two local elders who share oral histories through a storytelling film.
This program is divided into:
- Introduction to program, centre and rules Outside (5 minutes)
- Salmon Origins Storytelling Film Theatre (20 minutes)
- Introduction in Theatre: (10 minutes)
- 2 Stations (25 minutes)
- Salmon Fishing Tools and Methods (Hands-on inqury of traditional Indigenous fishing tools)
- Wind-drying Salmon (Exploration of the method used to dry salmon in the Fraser Canyon, and a workshop on sharpening traditional slate knives)
- Conclusion Theatre (5 minutes)
For more information, visit our website or email us.
Outreach Wednesdays!
Can’t come to the Fraser River Discovery Centre? No problem! We can come to you! Two FRDC staff will bring all the materials necessary to run some of our most popular River School Programs right in your own classroom!
All materials will be fully sanitized between use, and the staff will wear masks. If there are additional safety protocols we need to follow, please contact us. Please note, small group work is part of each program, with frequent sanitation of touched objects.
Cost: $7 per student, plus $0.59 per kilometer between FRDC and your school.
When: Wednesdays
To provide us with more information on what you would like from in-class outreach, fill in our survey.
(Grades 2-5) Determine how personal choices have environmental consequences by "polluting" a model of the lower mainland and brainstorming alternatives to common pollutants.
This program is divided into:
- Introduction to the Centre, Program and Rules (5 minutes)
- PowerPoint Presentation (10 minutes)
- Activities (25 minutes each)
- Pollution Model and Solutions to Pollution (exploration of our hands-on model of non-point source polution in the Fraser Valley)
- Water Conservation Station (Matching game of water saving tips)
- Video: Journey of the Blob (10 minutes)
- Conclusion (5 minutes)
For more information, visit our website or email us.
*In the 2020-2021 school year, this program may be available for in-class outreach, with an educator and all the materials coming to your school in-person. To provide us with more information on what you would like from in-class outreach, fill in our survey.
(Grades 4-7) Explore the economic and technological exchanges between local Indigenous people and early European settlers during the fur trade and become archaeologists as they dig for artifacts that represent key events in the development of BC.
This program is divided into:
- Introduction: PowerPoint Presentation (20 minutes)
- Stations (20 minute stations)
- Archeology Dig (dig in our archeology sandbox for artifacts and explore what those artifacts mean for BC)
- Archaeologist’s Journal (sketch artifacts and make inquiries into their purposes based on archeological data)
- FRDC Trading Post Game (consider value of objects for explorers and Indigenous people in developing BC in a Deal or No Deal inspired competition)
- Conclusion (10 minutes)
For more information, visit our website or email us.
Outreach Wednesdays!
Can’t come to the Fraser River Discovery Centre? No problem! We can come to you! Two FRDC staff will bring all the materials necessary to run some of our most popular River School Programs right in your own classroom!
All materials will be fully sanitized between use, and the staff will wear masks. If there are additional safety protocols we need to follow, please contact us. Please note, small group work is part of each program, with frequent sanitation of touched objects.
Cost: $7 per student, plus $0.59 per kilometer between FRDC and your school.
When: Wednesdays
To provide us with more information on what you would like from in-class outreach, fill in our survey.
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