The Canadian Children's Museum promotes intercultural understanding with a wide range of practical learning opportunities. Our school programmes offer your students hands-on interactive experiences covering topics related to your social studies, art, language, math, science and technology curricula. Both guided and self-guided programmes include the use of artifacts and props, role playing and inquiry. These 45-minute programmes are ideal for stimulating children's curiosity about the world around them, and developing language awareness and their desire to learn. Each programme promotes literacy, numeracy, and interpersonal and group-learning skills.
Activities are multi-sensory and incorporate role playing, props, rhythm and movement.
Group size is limited to 30 children per topic. The Postal Carrier Children explore a day in the life of a postal carrier. Dressed in customized postal uniforms, they sort and deliver mail to homes and businesses in the Museum's International Village. Shipmates The Vagabond cargo ship has just arrived in a Canadian port after a six-month trip around the world. Your students help out as they act out the roles of ship's captain, dock workers, crane operators and sailors.