Homeschooler Days: April 5, 2024

Join us from April 5, 2024, to experience a variety of curriculum-based school programs that allow children to explore history as close to first hand as possible! Using a variety of activities, our interpreters will lead children through a thoughtful, fun and exciting day they won’t soon forget! Scroll down to discover all of our Homeschooler Days and register today!

Grade 1-2 Programs

One Room School House With Livery

If you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to go to school in the olden days, here’s your chance. You will get your “horse” at the Livery Barn and ride to school like the pioneer children of yesteryear.

Once your horse is stabled it will be into the school house to begin your lessons! The “One Room School House” program allows you to soak up the atmosphere of a century old school while your lessons are done with chalk on slate.

Journey Through the Past

While visiting Heritage Park, find out how our little community differs from your neighbourhood. Discover how our village inhabitants, with diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, each contributed as individuals and cooperated together to build and develop a strong community.

Price: $56 per student, GST exempt. Each student is allowed one complimentary guardian.

One Room School House With Livery Duration: 9:30 am – 11 am

Lunch: 11:30 am – 12 pm

Journey Through the Past Duration: 12 – 2 pm

Grade 3-4 Programs

Keys to the Community

What creates a community? This program will engage your students with remarkable individuals who laid the cornerstones of justice and compassion in early Calgary. See the growth of Calgary through historic maps and photographs, from an isolated ‘Mountie’ outpost, to a bustling prairie city. A visit to the Cottage Hospital reveals the story of Jimmie Smith, a humble Chinese immigrant who helped find Calgary’s first hospital.

Building Connections to Our Past

This activity centered program begins with a tour of our 1910 historical village, where students discover how the first settlers built their homes, and embraced new materials, tools, and methods of construction. Afterwards students build model log cabins, design their own personalized quilt block, and use old-fashioned tools to make their own wooden toy to take home.

Price: $56 per student, GST exempt. Each student is allowed one complimentary guardian.

Keys to the Community Duration: 9:30 am – 11 am

Lunch: 11:30 am – 12 pm

Building Connections to Our Past Duration: 12 – 2 pm

Grade 5-6 Programs

Across the Sea of Grass

Take your students on a journey across Canada to a new home on the “sea of grass.” From the driving of the last spike to the crowded, jostling colonist cars, discover the role the railroad played in bringing people to the Prairies. Explore life on the prairie by visiting a “soddie,” and the Burnside Ranch House. Students will experience farming life by learning how to churn butter and sampling the results!

Coal: A Rich Tapestry

Long before oil dominated the Alberta energy sector, coal was king. This natural resource has encompassed the lives of men, women and children from diverse cultural backgrounds, from the Blackfoot traditional knowledge of coal to those who immigrated to Alberta to toil in coal mines. The history of coal even involved animals, such as pit ponies and canaries. Each group has a unique story to tell. This program tells the stories of the real people and animals who lived and died by coal in Alberta. Through activities and a visit to the coal mine, students will discover how this controversial resource shaped communities, identities, and relationships.

Price: $56 per student, GST exempt. Each student is allowed one complimentary guardian.

Across the Sea of Grass Duration: 9:30 am – 11 am

Lunch: 11:30 am – 12 pm

Coal: A Rich Tapestry Duration: 12 – 2 pm