Activities

School Programs

MacBride Museum offers curriculum aligned programs and tours. Pre-book for special tours and Yukon-themed programs for kindergarten to Grade 12.

MacBride Museum is open all year long, offering tours and educational programs by appointment. These unique educational experiences and programs are a fun way to engage students in exploring the Yukon’s environment and amazing history. 

All programs are a $100 flat fee/class and programs run 60 minutes in length unless otherwise indicated or requested. We prefer programs to start at 10am or 1pm, however accommodations can be requested and may be granted depending on staff availability. 

Curriculum Connections:

MacBride Museum's programs align with the BC curriculum competencies for Science and Social Studies including:

1. Using process and skills to ask questions; gather, interpret, and analyze ideas; and communicate findings and decisions
2. Explaining the significance of personal or local events, objects, people, and places
3. Asking questions, make inferences, and draw conclusions about different types of sources 
4. Sequencing objects, images, and events and recognize the positive and negative aspects of continuity and change

Please email programs@macbridemuseum.com for booking information

 

 

Archaeology
Grade Level: K-7
This program explains how we learn about the past by examining the things people leave behind. Students will act as archaeologists to uncover real bones and artifacts in our dig box and learn about the history of the Yukon.
Curriculum Connections

1. People learn about the past through stories, objects, and evidence
2. Historical evidence helps us understand how people live in the past

 

All About Bears
Grade Level: K-3
Students will walk in the footsteps of these amazing creatures by exploring their habitats, food sources and survival mechanisms. The program also explains how people and bears co-exist safely and why bears can become a nuisance.
Curriculum Connections

1. Animals have basic needs 
2. Animals physical features and behaviours are adapted to their environment
3. Living things interact within ecosystems

 

Yukon Animals
Grade Level: K-7                                                                                                                                    

This program is based on the MacBride Museum’s wildlife collection. It looks at characteristics, adaptations and food sources of animals that live in the Yukon.
Curriculum Connections

1. Living things have adaptations and depend on habitats for survival
2. All living things sense and respond to their environment
3. Living things are diverse

 

From Dot-Dot-Dash to L-O-L
Grade Level: 5-7
Students will research historical methods of Yukon media communication and explore if different types of media affect our understanding of events. A tour of the Telegraph Office exhibit is part of this program.
Curriculum Connections

1. Technologies and communication influence people and societies
2. Different sources provide different perspectives on historical events
3. Evidence and communication shape our understanding of history

 

Objects, Ideas and Analysis 
Grade Level: 4-7
Students will be able to explain what a museum does, how to review and question historical documents including photos and how to fit personal and local history into the larger historical picture.
Curriculum Connections

1. Use evidence to understand perspectives and worldviews
2. Draw conclusions from historical evidence 
3. Analyze local history 

 

The Fur Trade
Grade Level: 4-6
Learn about early trade in the Yukon through an exploration of exhibit items, a hands-on discovery of trade items and a trading activity.
Curriculum Connections

1. First Peoples and Cheechako’s interacted through trade
2. Exploration, trade, and cultural exchange transformed societies 
3. Economic exchange shaped Canadian development and impacted First Nations 

 

Yukon Gold Rush
Grade Level: 4-5
Discover why the Klondike Gold Rush was an important event in the development of the Yukon and Canada. Dress in costume and explore artifacts to get an understanding of who the stampeders were and what their lives were like.
Curriculum Connections

1. History of local communities
2. Natural resources of Canada
3. The development of Canada as influenced by migration, resources and economy

 

Murder at Gold Bottom
Grade Level: 4-8
This program focuses on NWMP history in the Yukon, Klondike Gold Rush-era lifestyles and forensics. Students will act as detectives and examine documents and evidence to solve a fictional mystery based on facts (cir. 1896-1930).

Curriculum Connections

1. Analyze evidence to answer historical questions
2. Assess reliability and differing perspectives of historical sources
3. Apply scientific inquiry processes to investigate questions and interpret evidence

 

Growing a City
Duration: 1-2hours
Grade Level: 3-5
Students build the city of Whitehorse using giant puzzle pieces, and don costumes to act out a play. This program focuses on the development of Whitehorse between 1900 and 1920, when its rail and river traffic peaked.

Curriculum Connections

1. Communities change over time in response to people and environment
2. Natural resources and geography within Canada
3. History of local communities

 

Extra! Extra! Klondike Women Make History
Grade Level: 6
This program introduces students to the varied experiences of women during the Klondike Gold Rush, and the contributions they made to this extraordinary event in Yukon’s history.
Curriculum Connections

1. History of local communities
2. The development of Canada as influenced by migration, resources and economy
3. Different perspectives deepen understanding of historical events