No matter where you live in Manitoba (or beyond), the Manitoba Museum can connect with your students via our Virtual Field Trips (VFTs). Virtual Field Trips offer your class the opportunity to visit the Manitoba Museum live online and participate in an interactive presentation with our expert Learning & Engagement Team. Our online programs engage students in different ways – including polls and chats, up-close examinations of real Museum artifacts, specimens and exhibitions, or live streamed tours in the Museum Galleries, Science Gallery, and of the Planetarium’s night sky.
Virtual Field Trips are 45 minutes long and can be booked for one class or group for $105*. Up to three additional classes from the same school are welcome to join at a cost of $25 per class (tax included).
*Subsidized pricing applies to all Manitoba schools.
Ready to book? Please fill out and submit a booking request form.
For assistance planning or booking your visit, please contact our Programs office staff at 204-988-0626 or at Programs@ManitobaMuseum.ca.
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Museum Galleries
Curriculum Target Grades: 7 & 10
Suitable for Grades: 6-12
45 minutes
$105 / group
Climate change can be a daunting topic as a global issue, and what’s happening in our province often gets lost in the midst. This program will give participants an overview of how our climate is changing in Manitoba, especially in our Arctic/Subarctic, Boreal Forest and Prairies biomes. We also use our Earth History Gallery to demonstrate the differences between natural and human-caused climate change.
As we explore the Museum Galleries, students will be challenged to think about what those changes mean to the biodiversity of our province, as well as the social, economic and environmental consequences for Manitobans.
During the program, we also engage the students in thinking about solutions that can be implemented by themselves at the family, school and community level. Students will be encouraged to commit to actions that can help combat climate change, and give them hope that, together, positive results can still happen.
Topics covered during this program include:
- Difference between natural and human-caused climate change
- Melting permafrost in the Arctic and its impact on plants and animals, as well as the Inuit populations
- How scientists use models to conduct scientific investigations and demonstrations, including replica ice cores
- How forest fires impact the Boreal Forest, and how they are tied to climate change
- Extreme weather events in the Prairies and the socioeconomic challenges that come with them
Curriculum Connections
Grade 7: KC-004, KL-026, KL-027, KL-029, VL-009, VE-017
Grade 10: S2-1-02, S2-4-07, S2-4-08
Curriculum Target Grade: 11
Suitable for Grades: 9 – 12
45 minutes
$105 / group
Starting with a big picture perspective, students will learn about three different eras of the fur trade and how relationships between Europeans and Indigenous people changed over time. This Hudson’s Bay Company Gallery tour takes students from a trapper’s base camp to beaver hat making. An examination of artifacts engages students in thinking about not only how objects were traded, but how ideas and technologies were exchanged between Europeans and First Nations peoples.
Curriculum Connections
Grade 9: 9-VI-005A, 9-VI-005F, KP-043, KI-018A, VH-009, 9-VL-006, 9-VE-018
Grade 10: S2-KL-011, S2-KI-004, S2-KH-033, S2-KC-002
Grade 11: 11.1.1, 11.1.2, 11.1.3, 11.2.2, 11.2.3
Curriculum Target Grades: 4-5
Suitable for Grades: 4-6
45 minutes
$105 / group
This live, interactive program introduces participants to the big picture of the fur trade. Investigate the different roles of those involved in the fur trade (e.g. trappers and traders) and the development of fur trading companies. Learn how a trading post worked and uncover some of the technologies, objects, and ideas traded between Europeans and First Nations.
Curriculum Connections
Grade 4: 4-KI-010, 4-KH-035, 4-VH-009
Grade 5: KH-031, KE-053, VI-003, KE-052, KI-009
Curriculum Target Grade: 2 & 4
Suitable for Grades: K-4
45 minutes
$105 / group
Take a virtual nature walk through the Museum Galleries as we focus on the interesting ways animals behave in order to survive! Learn how animals are suited to their environments, explore the differences between young and mature animals, and contrast different life cycles of Manitoba animals in this interactive presentation.
Curriculum Connections
Grade 2: 2-1-08, 2-1-09, 2-1-14, 2-1-15, 2-1-12
Grade 4: 4-1-02, 4-1-03, 4-1-04, 4-1-05, 4-1-07
Curriculum Target Grade: 3
Suitable for Grades: 1 – 4
45 minutes
$105 / group
Plants are amazing living things! What do they need to survive? Join us on a plant adventure through the Museum Galleries to learn how plants adapt to different environments, and how they can be both useful and harmful to humans. Discover how animals and plants depend on one another.
Curriculum Connections
Grade 3: 3-1-07, 3-1-08, 3-1-09, 3-1-13, 3-1-14, 3-1-16
Curriculum Target Grades: 8 & 10
Suitable for Grades: 5-12
45 minutes
$105 / group
Many of the foods we eat today were domesticated and cultivated by First Nations farmers. This interactive program will keep students engaged through questions and answers and the playing of a fun vocabulary bingo game. Participants will learn about the importance of First Nations agriculture in world history, how we know about this history, and why it is important to us today.
Curriculum Connections
Grade 8: KI-011, KI-012, KI-008, KI-009, KL-022, KH-027, KH-028
Grade 10: S2-VL-005, S-103, KI-004, KH-033, VI-003, KL-021, KL-023, KE-043, S-304, KL-022
Curriculum Target Grade: 3, 4, 5
Suitable for Grades: 2-6
45 minutes
$105 / group
Students will learn about the resourcefulness of Inuit communities and their use of skin, stone, bone, and snow. We will investigate artifacts such as the ulu, qulliq, and bow drill, and then take a live virtual tour into the Arctic and Subarctic Gallery. We will examine the flora and fauna of this region and see more examples of historical clothing, weapons, toys, and tools.
Curriculum Connections
Grade 3: 3-KI-009, 3-KI-010, 3-KI-011, 3-KI-012, 3-KL-017, 3-KL-018, 3-KL-020, 3-KE-036
Grade 4: 4-KI-013, KI-014, 4-KL-028, 4-KL-029, 4-KL-032, 4-KH-038
Grade 5: S-305, KI-005, KI-006, KL-017, KH-036
Suitable for Grades: K-12
45 minutes
$105 / group
Travel virtually with a live guide through the Museum to see highlights of the galleries. Looking to learn about a specific collection or highlight a particular theme? Talk to our Reservations Coordinator to plan a Museum Explorer route that suits the needs of your class, group, or family.
Curriculum Target Grade: 2
Suitable for Grades: 1-4
45 minutes
$105 / group
Students learn about Winnipeg’s Indigenous roots and see how our community has grown and changed over time as they help build a map. Students are then taken on a live tour of the Winnipeg Gallery cityscape to see what Winnipeg looked like 100 years ago.
Curriculum Connections
Grade 2: S-204, S-206, KI-004, KI-005, KI-006, KI-008, KI-008A, KI-013, KI-015
Curriculum Target Grades: 6, 9, 11
Suitable for Grades: 4-12
45 minutes
$105 / group
This program explores what was happening on the ground in May and June 1919 using archival photographs and images and audio from the Manitoba Museum’s exhibition, Strike 1919: Divided City. Explore the causes of Canada’s largest strike, from post-war unemployment to the Spanish flu. Discover different perspectives and what the Strike reveals about divisions in society.
Curriculum Connections
Grade 6: KG-040, KH-035, KH-037, VI-006, VH-013
Grade 9: KC-005, KP-046, VP-015, KC-011
Grade 11: Enduring Understanding, Effects of Industrialization and Urbanization
Planetarium
Curriculum Target Grade: 6
Suitable for Grades: 5-9
45 minutes
$105 / group
Discover your place in space! Explore the planets of our solar system, as well as moons, asteroids, and comets, and learn about how we explore them using technology and in-person. Go from our backyard view of a “flat earth” through the earth-centered and then sun-centered solar system, model moon phases, and discover the technology we use to understand other planets and what that data teaches us about our own planet.
Curriculum Connections
Grade 6: Cluster 4: Exploring the Solar System
Curriculum Target Grade: 9
Suitable for Grades: 9-12
45 minutes
$105 / group
Exploring the Universe examines some of the big questions in science: Where did the universe come from? What is it made of? How do we know what we know? How has our understanding changed throughout human history? We’ll use the Planetarium’s DIGISTAR software to explore the planets and stars, visit distance galaxies, and use Canadian technology to see the universe in a different light.
Curriculum Connections
Grade 9: Cluster 4- Exploring the Universe
Curriculum Target Grade(s): 6
Suitable for Grades: 5-8
45 minutes
$105 / group
The Sky Tonight planetarium show takes your students on a virtual guided tour of the night sky. See stars, northern lights, and meteors, find constellations, explore the Moon and planets, and ask our sky scientists all of your space-related questions. Discover how the sky moves and changes over time, and how humans have tried to understand our place in the universe.
Curriculum Connections
Grade 6: Cluster 4- Exploring the Solar System
Curriculum Target Grade(s): 1
Suitable for Grades: K-4
45 minutes
$105 / group
Discover the amazing sights you can see in the sky! Experience the Sun’s effect on our planet, from day and night to the seasons. Find constellations and planets, and visit other planets to learn about how special our home planet Earth is.
Curriculum Connections
Grade 1: Cluster 1- Characteristics and Needs of Living Things; Cluster 4- Daily and Seasonal Changes
Science Gallery
Suitable for Grades 3-6
45 minutes
$105 / group
Why does static electricity make your hair stand up? What is sound energy? What is the link between magnets and electricity? It’s all about forces as we explore sound, electricity, and simple machines in this visit to the Explore Science Zone. Join our Science Communicator as they play with a Van Der Graaff generator, demonstrate the power of a pickle, and turn a balloon into a fireball!
Curriculum Connections
- A force is a push or a pull that can attract or repel objects.
- Some forces can act at a distance (e.g., gravitational, magnetic, electrostatic) and move certain objects without touching them directly.
- Gravitational, magnetic, and electrostatic forces interact with objects and living things in predictable ways.
- Sound is a form of energy produced by vibrations and experienced in a variety of forms in all aspects of daily life.
- Sound travels in waves in all directions from its source and has specific properties, such as pitch, loudness, and the ability to travel through, be absorbed by, or be reflected by some material objects.
- The ear acts to receive and process sound waves within a range that is characteristic to the organism; there are potentially harmful effects from excessive exposure to high intensity sounds produced by human-designed technologies.
- Interactions between sound and various materials can change its properties. Understanding these interactions enables the design of materials and devices that use or emit sound for a specific purpose.
- Electrical energy can be transformed into new forms of energy such as motion, sound, light, or heat.
- Electrical circuits provide a way of moving energy from one place to another and transforming it into new forms of energy.
- Energy from different sources can be used to generate electricity. Electrical energy plays a significant role in society, and its production has an impact on the environment.
Curriculum Target Grade: 4
Suitable for Grades: 3-5
45 minutes
$105 / group
Our popular in-house Light Workshop has been transformed into a virtual “talk show” program that is sure to engage your students. Fun With Light! will include visuals, interactive demonstrations, and “live” interviews with other characters. Utilizing many outcomes from the Grade 4 Light cluster, students learn the basic scientific principles of light, how we’ve used it to improve our lives, and discover what it can tell us about the universe. In the hands-on workshop portion, students make their very own kaleidoscope they can keep!
NOTE: This program has supplies that will be sent out upon confirmation of booking. As a result, a minimum of two weeks’ notice is required for booking. In addition to the base fee for the session, there is also a charge of $3.00 per student for the kaleidoscope supplies.
Curriculum Connections
Grade 4: 4-2-01, 4-2-02, 4-2-03, 4-2-04, 4-2-05, 4-2-06, 4-2-07, 4-2-08, 4-2-09, 4-2-10, 4-2-13,4-2-14
Curriculum Target Grade: 8
Suitable For: Grades 7 – 12
45 minutes
$105 / group
Lake Winnipeg has been named internationally as one of the most endangered lakes in the world, and is on the verge of becoming a “dead” lake within a decade. In this virtual field trip, students affect change using the award-winning Lake Winnipeg: Shared Solutions simulator and learn what the ingredients are for a healthy lake. Explore how humans interact with the lake and the unintended consequences of those actions. Learn about the many things they can do to protect and restore Lake Winnipeg.
Can your students be champions of change?
Save The Lake! gives your students active ways to learn about ecology, chemistry, and limnology through use of the simulation game, visuals, and pre and post workshop activities.
Curriculum Connections
Grade 7: Science Cluster 1- Interactions Within Ecosystems
Grade 8: Science Cluster 4: Water Systems
Grade 10: Science Cluster 2- Dynamics of Ecosystems
Grade 12: Biology Unit 5- Conservation of Biodiversity
Suitable for Grades 2-5
45 minutes
$105 / group
What happens to an object when you add energy to it? Can you change a solid into a gas? What is the science behind diapers? Join us LIVE from inside the Explore Science Zone as we explore the science behind the states of matter and physical and chemical changes. Our Science Communicator will present you with the grossest, slimiest, most explosive experiments all about the states of matter.
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