Grade 3

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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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Barter Banter

By placing them in a real barter economy, Barter Banter allows students to understand and appreciate the relationships and interactions that took place between the First Peoples and the French settlers.

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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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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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Footprint and Sculpture

Make animal prints molds and take home a souvenir of Richelieu Forest. You can do the same with fossils and learn more about the hardening of matter. https://museoparc.ca/programmes-scolaires/

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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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Pioneer Toys

Pioneer children didn’t have the Internet or video games, but they sure knew how to entertain themselves. Come and learn how to make your own toys out of paper and

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Quilling

Quilling is a decorative technique using narrow strips, or curls of paper, rolled up on themselves and fixed on a support or in a frame. It is an original way

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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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The School of Insects

Insects are essential to natural habitats and the other living beings in them. The school of insects activity allows students to learn more about insect body parts and their diet.

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Versatile Plants

Different plants have different uses and it is important to know about them. You will learn information about medicinal, edible and toxic plants in this workshop. Can you recognize all

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