Student Programming

Day Trips

Carbon: Gallery Tour, $4/student

Oxygen: Gallery Tour + Activity, $6/student

Silica: Gallery Tour + Beach Tour, $6/student

Iron: Gallery Tour + Activity + Beach Tour, $8/student

 

Overnight Trips

Magnesium: Gallery Tour + 2 Activities + Beach Tour + 2 meals,

$200 + $60/student

Aluminum: Gallery Tour + 3 Activities + 2 Beach Tours + 3 meals,

$200 + $75/student

*Overnight bookings are restricted to May through August

 

Classroom Visit from Museum Staff

Sodium: Lecture: 1 hour, $45

Calcium: Activity: 45 min to 1 hour, $4/student

*Limited number of bookings available and only to schools in the counties of Cumberland, Colchester,Antigonish, Guysborough, Halifax, and Hants

 

Teaching Resources

Bay of Fundy Rock and Mineral ID kits and Lesson Plan

$4.50/per student, includes shipping (within Canada).

Includes a lesson plan, step by step instructions, activity cards, and minerals

 

Beach Tours

  • Partridge Island (Grade 1 and up): collect and identify minerals
  • East Bay (Grade 1 and up): Discuss plate tectonics and search for fossil trackways
  • Wasson Bluff (Grade 9 and up): Site of Canada’s oldest dinosaurs & mineral collecting

 

Activities

  • Bay of Fundy rock and mineral identification, Grade 4 and 7 Earth and Space Science and Grade 12 Geology
  • Geological timeline, Grade 7 Earth and Space Science
  • Make a fossil cast, Grade 4 Earth and Space Science
  • Discovery tour, self-guided scavenger hunt style tour, versions for all grade levels
  • Mathematics and Paleontology, Grade 7 Math
  • Evolution in Action, Grade 6 Diversity of Life and Grade 7 Life Science
  • Climate Change, Grade 6 Diversity of Life and Grade 7 Life Science

Book Now

1-902-254-3814  |  Fundygeo@novascotia.ca

All prices do not include tax.

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