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

Curriculum Connections

• Kindergarten Social Studies
  • K.1: I Am Unique
  • K.2: I Belong
• Grade 1 Social Studies
  • 1.1: My World
  • 1.2: Moving Forward with the Past
• Grade 2 Social Studies
  • 2.2: A Community in the Past

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

Curriculum Connections

• Kindergarten Social Studies
  • K.2: I Belong
• Grade 1 Social Studies
  • 1.1: My World
  • 1.2: Moving Forward with the Past
• Grade 2 Social Studies
  • 2.2: A Community in the Past

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: Grade 2, Grade 4

Dates available: All year

Total time: 1 hour

Cost: $6 per student, Minimum fees may apply

Curriculum Connections

• Grade 2 Social Studies

  • 2.2: A Community in the Past
• Grade 4 Social Studies
  • 4.2: The Stories, Histories and Peoples of Alberta

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 3, Grade 6

Dates available: All Year

Total time: 1.5 hours

Cost: $8 per student, Minimum fees may apply

Curriculum Connections

• Grade 3 Science
  • Topic B: Building with a Variety of Materials
  • Topic C: Testing Materials and Designs
• Grade 6 Science
  • Topic A: Air and Aerodynamics
  • Topic B: Flight

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.

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

Choose from the following:

• T is for Tractor
• A is for Animal

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

Dates available: All Year

Total time: 30 minutes

Cost: $4 per student, Minimum fees may apply

Curriculum Connections:

• Science

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

Grades: Grade 2, Grade 4

Dates available: All year

Total time: 1 hour

Cost: $6 per student, Minimum fees may apply

Curriculum Connections

• Grade 2 Social Studies
  • 2.2: A Community in the Past
• Grade 4 Social Studies
  • 4.2: The Stories, Histories and Peoples of Alberta

Using Lego® Dacta Kits, students build devices that use wheels and axles, including gear systems and pulleys. Students explore the concepts of gearing up and gearing down.

Grades: Grade 4

Dates available: All year

Total time: 1 hour

Cost: $6 per student, Minimum fees may apply

Curriculum Connections

Grade 4 Science

• Topic B: Wheels and Levers

This program expands on the Wheels and Levers program. Students learn speed and force advantage through demonstrations of a Penny Farthing bicycle, a tricycle, and a rope machine.

Grades: Grade 4

Dates available: All year

Total time: 1 hour

Cost: $6 per student, Minimum fees may apply

Curriculum Connections

Grade 4 Science

• Topic B: Wheels and Levers

Explore how automotive design has evolved and put this new knowledge to work when building and customizing a mini racer.

Students test their inventions on the RAM raceway.

Each student takes their car home.

Grades: Grade 4

Dates available: All year

Total time: 1 hour

Cost: $8 per student, Minimum fees may apply

Curriculum Connections

Grade 4 Science

• Topic C: Building Devices that Move

Preparation Checklist

• Students will be using hammers
• Bring parent helpers to assist with this activity

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 5

Dates available: All year

Total time: 1 hour

Cost: $7 per student, Minimum fees may apply

Curriculum Connections

Grade 5 Science

• Topic A: Electricity and Magnetism
  • Closed, open and short circuit 
  • Insulators and conductors
• Topic B: Mechanisms using electricity 
  • Parallel and series circuits
  • Polarity and electrical flow
  • Building devices using electricity

Build a vehicle to take home, which uses a battery-powered electric motor to produce motion. Students explore the historical and contemporary significance of electric cars.

Grades: Grade 5

Dates available: All year

Total time: 2 hours

Cost: $8 per student, Minimum fees may apply

Curriculum Connections

Grade 5 Science

• Topic A: Electricity and Magnetism
• Topic B: Mechanisms Using Electricity

Preparation Checklist

• Students will wire their own cars
• Bring additional parent helpers

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

Curriculum Connections:

• 4.2 The stories Histories and Peoples of Alberta

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 3, Grade 6

Dates available: All year

Total time: 1.5 hours

Cost: $8 per student, Minimum fees may apply

Curriculum Connections

• Grade 3 Science
  • Topic B: Building with a Variety of Materials
  • Topic C: Testing Materials and Designs
• Grade 6 Science
  • Topic A: Air and Aerodynamics
  • Topic B: Flight

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 extra 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 Principal 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 6

Dates available: All year

Total time: 1.5 hours

Cost: $7 per student, Minimum fees may apply

Curriculum Connections

Grade 6 Science

• Topic A: Air and Aerodynamics
• Topic B: Flight

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

Curriculum Connections

Grade 6 Science

• Topic A: Air and Aerodynamics

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

Curriculum Connections:

• 4.2 The stories Histories and Peoples of Alberta

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: 4 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: 4 and up

Dates: Year-round

Total Time: 2 hours

Cost: $6 per child

Curriculum Connections: Social Studies