School Programs

Have we got a job for you! Whether in an urban factory building cars on an assembly line, joining a pit crew at the race track, or selling tickets and snacks at the drive-in theatre, students have a great time learning that cooperation gets the job done!

Grades: Kindergarten, Grade 1, Grade 2

Dates available: All year

Total time: 1 hour

Cost: $6 per student, minimum fees may apply.

Learning Outcomes

• Kindergarten Social Studies
  • Examine places in communities.
  • Explore self, others and the past through expressions of traditions, cultures and histories.
  • Investigate roles in communities.
  • Explain how cooperation contributes to achieving common goals.
• Grade 1 Social Studies
  • Explore cultures and histories of diverse communities.
  • Explore goods and services and how they can be exchanged.
  • Investigate roles and responsibilities.
  • Explore ways groups and communities contribute to identity and belonging.
• Grade 2 Social Studies
  • Explore ways trade supports local communities.
  • Examine ways to make decisions and solve problems.

From field to table, students learn how wheat is harvested, thresh their own wheat, and enjoy a taste of pancakes they make themselves.

Grades: Kindergarten, Grade 1, Grade 2

Dates available: All year

Total time: 1 hour

Cost: $6 per student, minimum fees may apply.

Learning Outcomes

• Kindergarten Social Studies
  • Examine places in communities.
  • Explore self, others and the past through expressions of traditions, cultures and histories.
  • Investigate roles in communities.
  • Explain how cooperation contributes to achieving common goals.
• Grade 1 Social Studies
  • Explore cultures and histories of diverse communities.
  • Explore goods and services and how they can be exchanged.
  • Investigate roles and responsibilities.
  • Explore ways groups and communities contribute to identity and belonging.
• Grade 2 Social Studies
  • Explore ways trade supports local communities.
  • Examine ways to make decisions and solve problems.

Preparation Checklist

• Students handle wheat and eat the pancakes they make.
• Please advise us of any allergy or gluten sensitivity issues.

Be a survivor in early Alberta using your newly acquired prairie skills. Make rope, butter, and a pioneer toy to take home.

Grades: Kindergarten, Grade 1

Dates available: All year

Total time: 1 hour

Cost: $6 per student, minimum fees may apply

Learning Outcomes:

• Kindergarten Social Studies
  • Exploring self, others, and past through expressions of traditions, cultures, and histories.
• Grade 1 Social Studies
  • Exploring cultures and histories of diverse communities.

These interactive programs introduce students to some of the fun and sometimes quirky machines found at the Reynolds-Alberta Museum!

Choose from the following programs:

• T is for Tractor
• A is for Animal

Grades: Pre-School, Kindergarten, Grade 1, Grade 2

Dates available: All Year

Total time: Each program is 30 minutes long.

Cost: $4 per student per program, minimum fees may apply.

Learning Outcomes:

• Science

Expedition Reynolds features a combination of self-guided and educator-led activities from our most popular programs. 

Activity stations will be set up throughout the Museum Galleries and the grounds for students to participate in. Students will explore topics in early agriculture, aviation, simple machines, and industry while enjoying the exhibits at the Museum. 

Each student will have the opportunity to make a simple toy to take home, make rope with their class, play the aviation game show "Fly or Flop", work on the assembly line, design and aircraft and test it in a wind tunnel, build a rocket and more!

Grades: K - 6

Dates: June 16-20, 2025 only

Total Time: Plan to spend 2-4 hours

Cost: $10 per student

Learning Outcomes:

• Science/Social Studies

This program explores simple machines. Students experiment with pulleys and learn about mechanical advantage through demonstrations with a Penny-Farthing bicycle. Students see how simple machines combine to make complex machines with a hunt for simple machines in the artifacts on display in the Museum. The class has an opportunity to see a simple machine in action when they help make rope using the rope making machine.  

Grades: Grade 3

Dates available: All year

Total time: 1 hour

Cost: $6 per student, minimum fees may apply.

Learning Outcomes

• Grade 3 Science
  • Investigate and explain how forces affect the movement of objects.

Squishy Circuits uses conductive and insulating play dough to teach the basics of electrical circuits. Students will build a variety of electronic sculptures that light up, move, and make sounds.

Grades: Grade 4

Dates available: All year

Total time: 1 hour

Cost: $7 per student, minimum fees may apply.

Curriculum Connections

• Grade 4 Science
  • Examine and apply design process to meet needs.

This self-guided program encourages students to explore the Museum with purpose. The questions will direct students to learn, fun, historical facts about aviation, industry, transportation and agricultural artifacts on display.

Grades: Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6

Dates available: All year

Total time: 1 hour

Cost: $2 per student, minimum fees may apply.

Learning Outcomes:

• Social Studies

Expedition Reynolds features a combination of self-guided and educator-led activities from our most popular programs. 

Activity stations will be set up throughout the Museum Galleries and the grounds for students to participate in. Students will explore topics in early agriculture, aviation, simple machines, and industry while enjoying the exhibits at the Museum. 

Each student will have the opportunity to make a simple toy to take home, make rope with their class, play the aviation game show "Fly or Flop", work on the assembly line, design and aircraft and test it in a wind tunnel, build a rocket and more!

Grades: K - 6

Dates: June 16-20, 2025 only

Total Time: Plan to spend 2-4 hours

Cost: $10 per student

Learning Outcomes:

• Science/Social Studies

Come on down and let’s play Fly or Flop. Students look at a variety of early airplane designs and guess which ones got off the ground and which ones did not.

Students discuss the importance of design and materials in the development of an airplane, and are introduced to the experiments of Alexander Graham Bell, with the tetrahedral kite.

Each student builds a kite to take home.

Grades: Grade 5

Dates available: All Year

Total time: 1.5 hours

Cost: $9 per student, Minimum fees may apply.

Learning Outcomes

• Grade 5 Science
  • Investigate and compare how forces affect things and objects in air.
  • Apply design processes when creating artifacts that can be used by a human or machine to address a need.
  • Investigate how evidence is gathered.

Preparation Checklist

Students will be required to tie knots and thread string through straws.

We recommend that you:

• Practice tying knots in class before you visit the museum.
• Bring parent helpers to assist with the kite build.

Divided into 3 fun, educational, hands-on stations, students explore flight, air, and aerodynamics.

Station 1:

• Investigate a variety of aircraft configurations and how they operate
• Review the four forces of flight

Station 2:

• Discuss Bernoulli’s Principle and the importance of airfoils
• Observe how air moves over a surface using a vertical wind tunnel

Station 3:

• Teams challenge each other in a fun and interactive game show, identifying control surfaces and major components of an aircraft.
• Try out the controls in a 1940 Stinson aircraft and 1965 Hughes helicopter.

Grades: Grade 5

Dates available: All Year

Total time: 1.5 hours

Cost: $9 per student, Minimum fees may apply.

Learning Outcomes

• Grade 5 Science
  • Investigate and compare how forces affect things and objects in air.
  • Apply design processes when creating artifacts that can be used by a human or machine to address a need.
  • Investigate how evidence is gathered.

Preparation Checklist

Students will be required to tie knots and thread string through straws.

We recommend that you:

• Practice tying knots in class before you visit the museum.
• Bring parent helpers to assist with the kite build.

Preparation Checklist

• Teacher and a parent helper will lead 2 of the 3 stations.

Learn about rocket history and science.

Conduct experiments exploring Newton's Laws of Motion. Challenge your knowledge of aerodynamics by designing and building two types of rockets.

Apply your understanding of Newton's Laws by launching your rockets and reviewing the group's results.

Grades: Grade 6

Dates available: All year

Total time: 1.5 hours

Cost: $7 per student, minimum fees may apply.

Learning Outcomes

• Grade 6 Science
  • Analyze forces and relate them to interactions between objects.

Preparation Checklist

• Bring additional parent helpers.
• Teacher/parent helper will lead one of the rocket-building stations (instructions provided prior to our visit)

Take a close look at how simple machines translate energy into motion, speed, and force.

Students explore practical applications of simple machines using a cream separator, a Penny Farthing bicycle, and a tricycle.

Grades: Grade 7, Grade 8

Dates available: All year

Total time: 1 hour

Cost: $6 per student, minimum fees may apply.

Curriculum Connections

Grade 7 Science

• Unit D: Structures and Forces

Grade 8 Science

• Unit D: Mechanical Systems

Using Lego® Dacta Kits, students analyze mechanical devices and identify components that operate as simple machines.

Students construct both gear and belt-driven systems, and assess turning ratios between a driving and driven shaft.

Grade: Grade 8

Dates available: All year

Total time: 1 hour

Cost: $6 per student, minimum fees may apply.

Curriculum Connections

Grade 8 Science

• Unit D: Mechanical Systems

This tour highlights our "museum-quality" restoration projects and provides opportunity for your students to talk to our restoration staff.

Grades: 7-12

Dates available: All year

Total time: 1 hour

Cost: $100, 30 student maximum per tour.

Curriculum Connections

Curriculum ties based on individual class needs

This self-guided program encourages students to explore the Museum with purpose. The questions will direct students to learn, fun, historical facts about aviation, industry, transportation and agricultural artifacts on display.

Grades: Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6

Dates available: All year

Total time: 1 hour

Cost: $2 per student, minimum fees may apply.

Learning Outcomes:

• Social Studies

Expedition Reynolds features a combination of self-guided and educator-led activities from our most popular programs. 

Activity stations will be set up throughout the Museum Galleries and the grounds for students to participate in. Students will explore topics in early agriculture, aviation, simple machines, and industry while enjoying the exhibits at the Museum. 

Each student will have the opportunity to make a simple toy to take home, make rope with their class, play the aviation game show "Fly or Flop", work on the assembly line, design and aircraft and test it in a wind tunnel, build a rocket and more!

Grades: K - 6

Dates: June 16-20, 2025 only

Total Time: Plan to spend 2-4 hours

Cost: $10 per student

Curriculum Connections:

• Science/Social Studies

Students play a fun game show exploring aircraft design. They will gain an understanding of air pressure, Bernoulli's Principle and angle of attack. Students try out the control surfaces of a 1940 Stinson airplane and a 1965 Bell Hughes helicopter.

This program requires parents, under the instruction of our Museum Educator, to lead activity stations.

Ages: 5 and up

Dates Available: Year-round

Total Time: 2 hours

Cost: $6 per child

Curriculum Connections: Science

Learn about early Alberta life through hands-on stations. Use a loom to weave fabric, play the stooking game to learn about grain harvesting, explore horsepower, and investigate objects representing historical Albertans.

This program requires parents, under the instruction of our Museum Educator, to lead activity stations.

Ages: 5 and up

Dates: Year-round

Total Time: 2 hours

Cost: $6 per child

Curriculum Connections: Social Studies

Discover the science behind simple and complex machines from ancient civilizations to modern societies.

Build cranes, launch catapults and conduct experiments to learn how machines work and why they are useful.

Ages: 5 and up

Dates: Year-round

Total Time: 2 hours

Cost: $6 per child

Curriculum Connections: Science