The Museum will offer exclusive programming for homeschool students. All programs are curriculum-fit and are designed for different age/grade levels.
In Art of Casting, art and science merge as students paint a fossil cast and learn why museums make casts. They will discover the importance of fossil casts and how exhibit text is developed to connect specimens with visitors. Once back at home, students can develop their own museum exhibit.
The Museum will offer exclusive programming for homeschool students. All programs are curriculum-fit and are designed for different age/grade levels.
This guided Badlands Hike through Midland Provincial Park will help you discover the wonders of this amazing landscape. The badlands tell the story of Alberta's changing environments, from the temperate climate of the Cretaceous Period, to today's arid conditions. With expert guidance, students unlock the ancient secrets of this mysterious landscape.
The Museum will offer exclusive programming for homeschool students. All programs are curriculum-fit and are designed for different age/grade levels.
In Badlands Unboxed, we will look at the incredible badlands landscape from the perspective of four scientists: geologist, palaeontologist, botanist, and zoologist. Students will work in groups, looking at actual specimens, and discovering what the rocks, fossils, plants, and animals tell us about this environment, in the past and the present.
The Museum will offer exclusive programming for homeschool students. All programs are curriculum-fit and are designed for different age/grade levels.
In Digging Dinos, learn about the unique process of fossilization. In this exciting workshop, students experience the exhilaration of discovery as they uncover real dinosaur fossils. Using tools of the trade, students learn how to excavate fossils in our simulated quarry, and how scientists map and interpret their discoveries.
The Museum will offer exclusive programming for homeschool students. All programs are curriculum-fit and are designed for different age/grade levels.
How would dinosaurs behave at a picnic? In Dinosaur Picnic, students participate in movement activities, hands-on fossils, an identification game, and 'feeding' the dinosaurs. They learn about herbivores, carnivores, and omnivores, and their adaptations.
The Museum will offer exclusive programming for homeschool students. All programs are curriculum-fit and are designed for different age/grade levels.
In Fossil Casting, students create a replica of a Museum fossil to take home, complete with details about the fossil's age, and where it was found. Participants also learn how molds and casts are made, and touch some real fossils.
The Museum will offer exclusive programming for homeschool students. All programs are curriculum-fit and are designed for different age/grade levels.
Examine real fossils, hold a replica dinosaur brain, and assemble a life-sized "raptor" skeleton in Raptors in Action. Students will learn about adaptations and simple machines through a series of fun activities, culminating with them working in groups to build a mechanical "raptor" leg, which they will bring to life in a dinosaur-inspired relay race.