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Use our convenient online forms to book a class visit or group visit! Bring your class or children's group to the Waterloo Regional Children’s Museum and experience art and technology at play! School visits offer an exciting, hands-on, interactive exploration of the exhibits , the building and its surroundings. Your group will be provided with a museum educator to host and facilitate your visit and everyone in your group will engage in fun, learning-through-discovery experiences. Class visits are the ideal way to extend learning beyond the classroom. Choose from the innovative programs below which have been designed to support curriculum expectations for Ontario. Explore our Classroom Connections for ideas on pre and post visit activities. *******************************************************************
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Kindergarten of
Course This program has been designed especially for kindergarten aged children. While playing and experimenting with various exhibits within the museum, attention will be paid to developing teamwork and social interaction skills. Games such as glow-in-the-dark tic-tac-toe and a tour through our life-sized spider web will focus on basic spatial relationships as well as prediction and probability. The nature and length of each activity has been created with the interests and needs of our younger visitors in mind. Maximum: 60 children Do the Wave
- Grades 3 to
6
Dive into an exploration of several
types of waves including sound waves, light waves, x-rays, compression waves
(longitudinal waves), and transverse waves. The program also examines wave
amplitude and frequency. Curriculum Connections - Energy & Control Maximum: 40
children
eyeOn Buildings -
Grades 1 to 8 This program delves into visual art,
with focus on the elements of design (colour, line, shape, form, space) for
younger children and the principles of design (emphasis, rhythm, balance, unity,
variety, proportion) for older children, all of which is found in the buildings
and the streetscape of King St. The children will also be introduced to various
architecture terms. At the end of the program, children will produce a piece of
artwork, using the streetscape as inspiration. Curriculum Connections - Visual Art, Matter & Materials, Structures & Mechanisms Maximum: 40
children
GeeWhizOmetry
- Grades 1 to 6 This program is all about shapes!
Explore the geometric properties of the museum environment, including the
building and exhibits, and the streetscape. Some of the world's most sophisticated
technologies are based on elementary geometry. This concept is explored through
discussions about, and manipulation of, two-dimensional shapes and
three-dimensional figures, as well as bilateral symmetry, patterning and
triangulation. Maximum: 60
children
Light Colours -
Grades 1 to 8 This program explores characteristics of the electro-magnetic spectrum, with a focus on the visible light portion. Using a mixture of hands on activities, visual aids, experiments and museum exhibits, children will investigate different features of light and colour, including how and why they exist and how they affect our daily lives. Curriculum Connections - Energy in our Lives (Grade 1), Light & Sound Energy (Grade 4), Optics (Grade 8) Maximum: 50 children
Material Matters
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Grades 1 to 5 This program will explore the
properties and purposes of the materials used in the construction of the museum
building and other structures. Children will discuss the properties and
appropriate uses of distinct and specific materials used in our exhibits,
including liquids. Activities will be differentiated for the particular topic of
each grade. Please call for
grade-specific connections. Curriculum Connections - Matter & Materials Maximum: 50
children
Move It!
- Grades 1 to 6 Much of today's technology deals with
making things move. A tour through
the exhibits with movement in mind connects structures, mechanisms, energy and
spatial sense. Younger grades (1-3)
focus on distinct movements and patterns in both nature and industry through a
variety of team buildings interactive activities. Programs for older grades (4-6) include
discussions about energy sources, as well as the effect of simple machines on
the ability to do 'work'. Curriculum Connections - Structures & Mechanisms, Energy & Control Maximum: 60
children
Playing By Hand - Grades 2 to 5 The activities selected for this program are anchored in having the children solve problems by doing things with their hands rather than seeing or listening. This program emphasizes interaction with exhibits that have strong potential for hands-on learning. Children will also be involved in activities that encourage teamwork and planning, problem solving and fundemental movement skills. Curriculum Connections - Patterning, Energy & Control, Geometry & Spacial Sense, Oral & Visual Communication Maximum: 50
children Techno-Poetry
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Grades 3 to
8
Techno-Poetry captures the science and
technology of the museum in words and interprets the unique nature of our space
through poetry. The children will be introduced to different kinds of poetry as
well as key poetic terms and devices that are particularly relevant to their
'poetic experience' here at the museum. Using colour, shape, line, diction, and
rhythm the children will work together to represent our museum in their own
words, gaining confidence by both creating and presenting their
work. Curriculum Connections - Oral & Visual Communication, Reading & Writing Maximum: 40
children
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