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Art and Peacebuilding

What role did art play in the Cold War? How can art be used to build and promote peace? This program encourages dialogue and discussion about the role of art

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Artefact Analysis

Using the provided activity sheets, this program will challenge students to analyse various artefacts from the Bytown Museum’s collection, in order to determine their purpose and significance. Students will first

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Builders of the City 

This tour focuses on the people who have influenced the city’s cultural, social, and political history, and how interactions between various groups helped shape our city right up until today,

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Confederation: Have your say!

Explore everyday life in Victorian Canada. Learn about the major figures in the debates surrounding Confederation and the unification of the distinct colonies of British North America. The tour group

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The entrance to the Diefenbunker: Canada's Cold War Museum

Conflict Resolution

This program follows YOUCAN Ottawa’s teaching of conflict resolution skills, which has been successful for twenty years. Students begin by exploring the communication and decision-making skills needed in conflict resolution.

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The entrance to the Diefenbunker: Canada's Cold War Museum

Continuity of Government

This program uses primary sources from a scenario that took place in 1986, when the Diefenbunker was active. As air-raid sirens blare, students are assigned key roles and tasked with

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The entrance to the Diefenbunker: Canada's Cold War Museum

Daily Life in the Diefenbunker

In this program, students explore what life would have been like in the Diefenbunker during a lockdown. Divided into three groups (military, civilian, and government), they discover how each group

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The entrance to the Diefenbunker: Canada's Cold War Museum

Dash for Survival

This team-building activity uses the Cold War as a backdrop, while students work together to solve a series of puzzles and challenges — with the added pressure of working underground.

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The entrance to the Diefenbunker: Canada's Cold War Museum

Emergency Preparedness

What did people do to stay safe during the Cold War? To find out, students watch a primary source: the 1973 government-issued 11 Steps to Survival video. Students then look at emergency

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Exploring Bytown by Map

Using the activity sheets as a guide, this program will allow students to explore various maps from the Bytown Museum’s collection. Through discussion and the examination of historical maps, students

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A green sign reads "Osgoode Township Museum" and is nestled within green and burgundy heritage plants.

Goode Gardeners

Join us at the museum to learn all about early rural settler gardeners! Explore the tools rural settlers needed to grow essential produce in their gardens in our Agricultural Museum

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History Explorers

History Explorers is a scavenger hunt that allows students to have some fun while learning about Ottawa’s, and Canada’s, history. To complete this interactive and investigative program, students will use

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Laughy Taffy!

Making maple syrup requires a good understanding of the sugar bush operation, accurate measurement of maple product refinement, and the execution of several manual tasks. Show students the cycle of

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Les paperolles 1e – 6e année

La paperolle est une technique de décoration utilisant d’étroites bandelettes, ou frisures de papier, enroulées sur elles-mêmes et fixées sur un support ou dans un cadre. Les paperolles sont un

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Les plantes ambivalentes 3e – 4e année

Différentes plantes ont différentes utilités et il est important de les connaître. Vous apprendrez beaucoup d’informations sur les plantes médicinales, comestibles et toxiques dans cet atelier. Saurez-vous reconnaître toutes les

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Lock Talks

Discover the Ottawa Locks, set next to majestic Parliament Hill in the heart of the nation’s capital. Travel back to the early 19th century when Colonel By and his workers

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Ornithologist-In-Training

Learn all about the birds we can find in Richelieu Park. Learn their names and how to recognize them. We will later search for them in the Richelieu Forest. https://museoparc.ca/programmes-scolaires/

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Simple Machines

Explore the use of simple machines and how they make our everyday lives easier. Watson’s Mill is filled with levers, inclined planes, wheels & axles, wedges, pulleys, and screws. together

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Troc baroque 2e – 4e année

En les situant dans un contexte réel d’échanges commerciaux, Troc baroque vise à permettre à l’élève de comprendre et saisir en quoi consistaient les relations et les interactions qui se

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