School Programs

BACK TO SCHOOL, BACK IN TIME (grades 2 through 7)

Role-playing pioneer students in an authentic one-room schoolhouse will transport your students back in time. Students learn about schooling in the past, and then practice penmanship with pen and ink, read from “The Ontario Readers” series and copy their arithmetic lesson from blackboard to slate, to discover first-hand the challenges and enjoyments of a one-room school.

This program is excellent for use with the Grade 3 Pioneer Life topic in the Heritage & Citizenship strand in Social Studies. It is also used by many teachers to enrich the study of the setting of such novels as Anne of Green Gables or Sarah, Plain & Tall in Language. The role-playing component also makes this program useful in meeting expectations in the Drama and Dance curriculum for any grade. - (available year-round except mid-November to December)

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LIFE IN A ONE-ROOM SCHOOL – IN-CLASSROOM PROGRAM (grades 2 through 7)

This program covers the same topics and hands-on activities as the above program, but instead of your class coming to our one-room schoolhouse, we bring this lesson to your classroom, to save you the cost of a bus (available in Lambton County only).

The primary/junior version of this program is excellent for use with the Grade 3 Pioneer Life topic in the Heritage & Citizenship strand in Social Studies. It is also used by many teachers to enrich the study of the setting of such novels as Anne of Green Gables or Sarah, Plain & Tall in Language. The intermediate version may be used in the study of the historical development of the community in the grade 7 topic of British North America.(available year-round)

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BUSY AT HOME (grades 3 to 6)

The work of pioneer life becomes real for students as they visit the log cabin, wash clothes on a scrub board and dip a candle by hand from wax melted over an open fire. Visiting the log cabin allows students to see first hand many of the objects they have been learning about in studying pioneer life. Perfect for use in the grade 3 Pioneer topic in the Heritage and Citizenship strand of Social Studies. Also could be used in conjunction with Science & Technology in the Energy and Control strand for the grade 6 Electricity topic comparing our dependence on electricity to people in the past.(available May, June, September, October)

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PIONEERS: THE ORIGINAL RECYCLERS (grade 3)

Nothing was wasted in the pioneer home. Pioneers reduced, re-used and recycled out of necessity. Every part of an animal or plant was put to use. Clothing was handed down to younger children, and then recycled into quilts or rugs when it could no longer be mended.

This program gives students the opportunity to explore the self-sufficient and non-wasteful lifestyle of the pioneers. Opportunities for hands-on activities such as trying a drop spindle and weaving a rag rug will bring the experience to life for the students. Perfect for use in the grade 3 Pioneer topic in the Heritage and Citizenship strand of Social Studies. (available May & June, September & October)

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CHILDHOOD MEMORIES (grades K to 4)

Visits are made to the log cabin and Victorian cottage where students learn about children’s lives during each time period, including playing some games of the day. Making a pioneer toy to take home is always a highlight.

This program may be used in comparing roles and responsibilities of family members in the past to the students’ lives today in the grade 1 Relationships, Rules and Responsibilities topic in the Heritage & Citizenship strand in Social Studies. (available May, June, September, October)

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ALL HANDS ON DECK!! (grades 3 to 7)

This marine history program gives students the opportunity to better understand ships and shipwrecks. Students dramatize for their classmates the loss of a ship on the Great Lakes and learn more about marine equipment and roles of the crew. A videotape regarding the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald is also included.