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We offer some of the most innovative and memorable field trip experiences available in Southern Alberta. Our variety of curriculum based school programs provide options for Kindergarten to Grade 9 and beyond!

Whether you are looking for role-playing experiences or discovery opportunities, we deliver in style and in time. You and your students will experience a unique day away from the classroom. These adventures in education have been popular with students,

teachers, and parents for over thirty-five years due to their interactivity and capacity to inspire curiosity and wonder.

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IDENTIFYING IN ITIATIVEGRADE 5: SOCIAL STUDIES

OCTOBER 11 – NOVEMBER 10, 2017 & JANUARY 22 – APRIL 24, 2018

Have you ever wondered what it would be like if women didn’t have the same rights as men? Luckily, thanks to the Famous 5, we don’t have to ponder upon that. Have your students step back in time and explore who the Famous 5 were, the factors that made these five women want to affect change, and what that change meant for all others who followed.

Program runs from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. or 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.Group size up to 30 students; $150 per program

COURTING CHANGEGRADE 6: SOCIAL STUDIES


In this program we invite students to explore the historical importance of the actions of private citizens who, through protest and legal challenges, changed the shape of Canadian law in the first third of the twentieth century. Explore issues related to the rights of women and children; causes dear to the hearts of the Famous 5. Dress in pink frocks and join us for a pink tea to discuss and debate women’s rights in the post-WWI era. Later, play a role in the mock courtroom trial to decide whether or not working conditions for Alberta’s children in the 1910s need to be changed.


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ALL ABOUT NELLIEGRADE 4, 5 & 6: SOCIAL STUDIES


Who is Nellie McClung? Most of us know her as a member of the Famous 5 and a key player in the 1929 “Persons Case,” but there is so much more to her than that. Visit the Famous 5 Centre of Canadian Women, a replica of McClung’s Calgary home and discover the many facets of Nellie’s life and personality. Using the artifacts and information in the exhibit as inspiration, students will create a scrapbooking journal and make Nellie’s work as an author, teacher, activist, politician, wife and mother come alive. During a gardening walking tour the children will explore and learn the differences between certain plants and how to identify them just like Nellie. Students will leave with a newfound vision of Nellie McClung.

Program runs from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. or 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. Group size up to 30 students; $150 per program

NELLIE’S CHRISTMASGRADE 3, 4 & 5: SOCIAL STUDIES

NOVEMBER 15 – DECEMBER 8, 2017

Come step back in time and observe the Christmas traditions of the Roaring Twenties — the Christmas trees, lights, feasts, and elaborate decorations creating a magical atmosphere in Nellie’s home. Then learn about the contrast of the ’30s and ’40s when rationing was introduced. See how the emphasis shifted and was placed more on family and friends and far less on things. You will also learn to make a traditional 1940s soup, play old-fashioned games, and finish off your visit with an old-time dance.

Program runs from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. or 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. Group size up to 30 students; $150 per program

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SENSATIONAL D ISCOVERYPRE-K & K: SCIENCE

OCTOBER 11, 2017 – APRIL 24, 2018

Explore the Gasoline Alley Museum using your senses! Try to identify different parts of our vehicles through touch alone. Create a grocery list using your nose. Listen and identify the sounds on a busy street. Join us for a whole series of activities designed to let you investigate our collection using your five senses.

Please bring a healthy snack for the tasting portion of the programProgram runs from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. or 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.

Group size up to 30 students; $150 per program

PEOPLE IN YOUR NEIGHBOURHOODGRADE 1 & 2: SOCIAL STUDIES

OCTOBER 11, 2017 – APRIL 24, 2018

Who are the people in your neighbourhood? What jobs do they do? What sorts of tools and vehicles do they need to do their jobs well? Are the jobs of the 21st century the same as those 75 or even 100 years ago? This interactive role playing program allows students to explore, discover and imagine how they would have worked in the past, and how that work was valued by the community. Students will also be invited to reflect upon how jobs and roles in the community have changed between the early 20th century and today.


S IMPLE MACH INES & ASSEMBLY LINEGRADE 3 & 4: SOCIAL STUDIES AND SCIENCE

OCTOBER 11, 2017 – APRIL 24, 2018

Think about how many cars you see on the road every day. Were Calgary’s roads always so crowded? Not at all. One hundred years ago, automobile manufacturing was revolutionized by techniques developed by Henry Ford. Learn all about the time-saving, cost-reducing manufacturing process called the assembly line in this interactive program. Visit our Lower Showroom and Husky Station to find out more about these mass-produced cars and the conglomeration of simple machines that make them tick.


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AUTO MOTIONGRADE 3 & 4: SCIENCE

OCTOBER 11, 2017 – APRIL 24, 2018

In Auto Motion, your students will work in small groups to design, build and race their own rubber-band vehicles. Students will have the opportunity to see how different materials, construction methods, and ideas come together with a variety of results. Observations of vehicle performance will enable them to propose inferences, generalizations, and predictions.

Program runs from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. or 12:00 to 2:00 p.m. Group size up to 30 students; $150 per program

WETLANDS AND THE WESTGRADE 5: SCIENCE

SEPTEMBER 18 – OCTOBER 6, 2017 & MAY 7 – JUNE 15, 2018

Discover the history and significance of wetland ecosystems during the settlement of the West and the vital functions they perform today. Students are introduced to the flow of water from precipitation to its entrance to the water table, and some of the local flora and fauna found along the way. Your class will investigate invertebrate life by pond dipping in our own Bissett Wetlands. The Newalta Learning Labs add another dimension to the discussion on diversity and adaptation with a hands-on “Build a Bug” activity, where students create their own aquatic creatures.

Program runs from 9:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.Group size up to 30 students; $195 per program

Drop-off and pick up from Parking Lot D (May/June)Half-day programs; $95 per program (May/June]

AERODYNAMICS AND THE AUTOMOB ILEGRADE 6: SCIENCE


Cars and airplanes both move through the air. In this thought-provoking program, students will apply what they’ve been learning about airplanes to our spectacular collection of vintage vehicles to see whether the same principles of aerodynamics hold true. Do cars need to be as aerodynamic as airplanes? Are they really aerodynamic, or do they just look like it? Why don’t they make minivans look like Lamborghinis—what is the balance between form and function? How does a new design go from concept car to production vehicle? With a little practice, students will be able to analyze a car’s aerodynamic qualities, suggest modifications and predict future trends.


A SCHOOL HOUSE CHRISTMASK & GRADE 1: SOCIAL STUDIES AND ART

NOVEMBER 15 – DECEMBER 15, 2017

This popular program unites songs, stories, and homespun crafts with the pageantry of a prairie school concert. Wholesome fun and seasonal charm take centre stage, highlighting community fellowship regardless of religious or cultural background. The program is topped off with an old fashioned horse drawn wagon ride (weather permitting).

Program runs from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. or 12:00 to 2:00 p.m. Group size: Weedon School up to 30 students,

Gleichen School up to 20 students; $150 per program

A PATCHWORK OF THE PASTGRADE 1: SOCIAL STUDIES


Travel back in time to meet the Prince and Thorpe families—the real people who lived in two of our unique historic homes. Through exploration and comparison of cultural traditions, home life, family roles and responsibilities, students will gain an understanding of how families and communities have changed over time and how they have stayed the same.


JOURNEY THROUGH THE PASTK & GRADE 1: SOCIAL STUDIES AND MATH


While visiting Heritage Park, find out how our little community differs from your neighbourhood. Discover how our village inhabitants, with diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, each contributed as individuals and cooperated together to build and develop a strong community.


JOURNEY OF A LIFETIMEGRADE 2: SOCIAL STUDIES


Explore our historical buildings as you follow a family who just arrived in town. Discover some of our landmarks, and learn about jobs people did and the goods and services they relied upon. By the end of the program, students will have a new understanding of how everyone contributed to strengthen a community rich in traditions.


SETTLING OUR PRA IRIE FRONTIERGRADE 2: SOCIAL STUDIES

SEPTEMBER 25 – NOVEMBER 3, 2017 & MARCH 26 – APRIL 24, 2018

Introduce your students to the stories of fur traders, First Nations peoples, and early settlers on Canada’s western frontier. Discover how the beaver pelt brought First Nations and Europeans together and how communities developed and grew on the prairies. Taste fresh bannock made on the open hearth in the Hudson’s Bay Company Fort. Visit the original log home of Sam Livingston and his Métis wife Jane to compare home life then and now.


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KEYS TO THE COMMUN ITYGRADE 2 & 3: SOCIAL STUDIES

SEPTEMBER 25 – NOVEMBER 10, 2017 & JANUARY 22 – APRIL 24, 2018

What creates a community? This program will engage your students with stories of remarkable individuals who laid the cornerstones of justice and compassion in early Calgary. See the growth of Calgary through historic maps and photographs, from isolated ‘Mountie’ outpost, to a bustling prairie city. Meet Colonel James Macleod and his courageous wife Mary at the Sandstone House. A visit to the Cottage Hospital reveals the story of Jimmie Smith, a humble Chinese immigrant who helped fund Calgary’s first hospital. Your class will learn that no matter who you are, everyone can make their community and the world a better place.


BU ILD ING CONNECTIONS TO OUR PASTGRADE 3 & 4: CROSS-CURRICULAR CONNECTIONS

GRADE 3: MATH AND SCIENCE • GRADE 4: SOCIAL STUDIESOCTOBER 11 – NOVEMBER 10, 2017 & JANUARY 22 – APRIL 24, 2018

This activity centered program begins with a tour of our 1910 Historical Village, where students discover how the first settlers built their homes, and embraced new materials, tools, and methods of construction. Afterwards students build model log cabins, design their own personalized quilt block, and use old-fashioned tools to make their own wooden toy to take home.


ACROSS THE SEA OF GRASSGRADE 4 & 5: SOCIAL STUDIES


Take your class on a journey across Canada to a new home on the “sea of grass”. From the driving of the last spike to the crowded, jostling colonist cars, discover the role the railroad played in settling the “Last, Best West”. Explore the settler’s life by visiting a “soddie”, and the Burnside Ranch House. Students will taste the farming life by learning how to churn butter and sampling the results!


PIONEER POLITICSGRADE 6: SOCIAL STUDIES


Calgary’s first mayoral race is the backdrop to this role playing and interactive political studies program. Students will learn about the civic process from election campaigns to the creation of by-laws. During the program, students will compare and contrast to see how a small frontier town council has grown and changed to tackle modern problems, and will gain an understanding of both municipal responsibilities and limitations.


ONE ROOM SCHOOL HOUSE K – GRADE 6

SEPTEMBER 25 – NOVEMBER 10, 2017 & JANUARY 22 – APRIL 24, 2018

If you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to go to school in the olden days, here’s your chance. The “One Room School House” program allows students to soak up the atmosphere of a century-old school while our staff delivers an historic lesson with chalk and slate. (Bring a stick pony and ride to the pony barn. Just like farm kids did 100 years ago!)


*Please note that this program is no longer teacher led

EXPLORERS AND ECOSYSTEMSGRADE 7 & 8: SCIENCES

SEPTEMBER 18 – OCTOBER 6, 2017 & MAY 7 – JUNE 15, 2018

This day-long program offers outdoor exploration at the Bissett Wetlands and classroom water quality testing at our indoor learning lab. Students will explore the historical and cultural context of Alberta’s watersheds. They will discover how human perspectives about ecology have changed over time. This program examines the wetlands as a source of water, food and recreation for Native peoples, explorers and early settlers. Students will learn the interconnected aspects of our environment and be able to put them into a social and scientific context.

Program runs from 9:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Group size up to 30 students; $195 per program

FA ITH ON THE FRONTIER: EXPLORING A SPIRITUAL LANDSCAPE

GRADE 7 – 9: SOCIAL STUDIESOCTOBER 11 – NOVEMBER 10, 2017 & JANUARY 22 – APRIL 24, 2018

This program covers four distinct groups who defined their place on the Prairies through their faith. Shared values and beliefs helped to sustain communities in a tough and demanding physical environment. It provided them with a strong connection to ancestors, homelands left behind and fellow believers. These people are represented at Heritage Park through the following exhibits: First Nations Encampment, Our Lady of Peace Catholic Mission, St. Martin’s Anglican Church and the Jewish Montefiore Institute. Students will discover the significance of these sacred spaces and study the symbolism of objects and traditions associated with each.


CULINARY TOURGRADE 8: SOCIAL STUDIESMAY 22 – JUNE 22, 2018

This 90-minute tour highlights what people ate in Southern Alberta between the early 1800s and the early 1900s. It reveals social and cultural change through the culinary customs and habits of the fur traders, the Blackfoot, and the settlers before and after the railway. A leaflet guides you through site exploration during the rest of your day.


PLA INS, TRA INS & IMMIGRANTSGRADE 7: SOCIAL STUDIESMAY 22 – JUNE 22, 2018

Using an interactive game book, students will assume one of several possible identities of a newly arrived settler in 1910 Alberta. As they tour the Park they collect points that correspond to their health, wealth, and survival; discovering how luck, opportunity, hard work, and ethnicity combined to create the immigrant’s experience. Students will gain an understanding of the changing perspectives that have occurred in Western Canada’s political, social, and economic landscape.

Pre-visit activities are required

Program runs from 9:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.Group size up to 120 students; $12.50 per student

Drop-off and pick up from Parking Lot D

PADDLERS AND PARTNERSGRADE 7 – 9: SOCIAL STUDIES


The fur trade was more than jolly voyageurs collecting beaver pelts in their birch bark canoes. However, they were essential to this industry. Would you have what it takes to become a voyageur? Experience the complex interplay of international power politics, high finance, and cross cultural trade. Profits may have driven the world’s oldest surviving corporation, but the trade was only possible by the partnerships that different classes and cultures forged themselves.


TEARS! TO IL! TRIUMPH!GRADE 7: SOCIAL STUDIES


The story of the sacrifices and contributions of the thousands of Chinese workers who left their homes and families in China in the early 1880s to help construct the Canadian Pacific Railway through the Fraser and Thompson River Canyons in British Columbia, is a story filled with tears, toil and triumph. Grade 7 students and teachers will participate in this full-day Social Studies simulation and experience some of the incredible challenges faced by these workers while learning about personal sacrifice, backbreaking work, impenetrable terrain, railway history, intolerance and prejudicial practices. The contributions these Chinese workers made to the building of the CPR and Canada should be appreciated, understood and honoured.


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YOUTH SLEEPOVER PROGRAMHeritage Park invites you to step back in time and spend the night in a bunkhouse with your youth group. Experience a sleepover in our newly restored Talisman Heritage Education Centre in Burn’s Barn. In the evening, let one of our Educational Interpreters guide your group through several hands-on and engaging historical activities, like making ice cream the old-fashioned way! When it’s time for bed, your group will hit the hay in one of our twenty-two bunks. In the morning, enjoy breakfast, an interactive scavenger hunt in our Historical Village, and free time to explore our renowned Gasoline Alley Museum. Your group will love spending the night in this unique historical setting!

For information please contact Jessica at 403.268.8618 or email [email protected]

FAMILY CHRISTMAS G IFT MAKINGPLEASE CHECK OUR WEBSITE IN THE FALL FOR MORE INFORMATIONThree levels will be offered in Famous 5 Classroom:Age 9–11: Saturdays — October 14, 21, 28, 2017 • 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.Age 12–14: Saturdays — November 4, 18, 2017 • 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.Adult: Thursday, November 16, 2017 • 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

EVEN ING YOUTH PROGRAMS AVA ILABLEOCTOBER 11, 2017 – APRIL 24, 2018

Please refer to website for programs and descriptions:http://heritagepark.ca/education-programs/school-programs/youth-groups.html

Programs run from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Monday – Wednesday Group size up to 30 students; $150 per program

Y O U T H G R O U P S

H O M E S C H O O L E R D A Y S

THE SETTLEMENTK – GRADE 9 • SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

GASOLINE ALLEY MUSEUMK – GRADE 9 • NOVEMBER 17, 2017

H ISTORICAL VILLAGEK – GRADE 9 • MARCH 3, 2018

WETLANDSGRADES 4 – 10 • MAY 18, 2018

Half-day and full-day programs availableTo register call 403.268.8522 or email [email protected]

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1900 Heritage Drive S.W. Calgary, AB T2V 2X3 Ph. 403.268.8522 Fax. 403.268.8574 [email protected] HeritagePark.caHeritage Park is a registered charitable organization and an accredited museum. Registered Charitable No. 11895 6457 RR0001

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