Grade Level: Kindergarten-GR3
Program Length: 120 minutes
Booking: September-November

Join the Myrtleville House Museum in “bringing in the sheaves” this fall as we prepare for the long winter ahead. The Harvest Moon Program is a hands-on educational adventure that explores the busy harvest season of the early settlers. Students will study the cycle of the seasons and how these seasonal changes affected daily life in the past. Students will enjoy a tour of the historic house and workshop, baking apple cookies in the historic kitchen, making cider, and shelling and grinding corn.

Big Ideas:

• Gr.1 Communities have natural and built features and provide services that help meet the needs of people who live and work there.Changes occur in daily and seasonal cycles, these changes affect living things. Everything that happens is a result of using some form of energy.
• Gr.2 The traditions that we celebrate today have developed over the generations.
• Gr.3 The different communities in early nineteenth century Canada influence the way we live today. Social and environmental challenges were a major part of life in all communities in early nineteenth century Canada.

Grade Level: Kindergarten-GR3
Program Length: 120 minutes
Booking: November-January

This festive season discover the traditions of Christmas Past in the cozy homestead of the Good family! Explore early settler Christmas traditions such as the adoption of the Christmas tree, the emergence of gift-giving, and the holiday season before Santa Claus through a tour of the Museum. Students will have the opportunity to trace changing traditions through two hands-on holiday activities, including the chance to make their very own wooden toy! Finally you end your program with us by baking gingerbread cookies from a recipe the Good family used themselves!

Big Ideas:

• Gr.1 Communities have natural and built features and provide services that help meet the needs of people who live and work there.
  Changes occur in daily and seasonal cycles, these changes affect living things. Everything that happens is a result of using some form of energy.
  Gr.2 The traditions that we celebrate today have developed over the generations.
  Gr.3 The different communities in early nineteenth century Canada influence the way we live today.
  Social and environmental challenges were a major part of life in all communities in early nineteenth century Canada.

Grade Level: Kindergarten-GR3
Program Length: 120 minutes
Booking: All Year

Have you ever wondered what life was like for children before running water, school buses, and video games? Step into the lives of the Good family’s 10 Children and experience the life of a settler child from traditional chores to fun and games.
The Settler Children Program is designed to introduce students to the lives of the Good Family Children. Stepping back to a day in the life of an early settler child will allow students to compare their lives with the day to day challenges facing the people who founded our community. Students will tour the historic house and learn about the children’s role within it. Baking in the historic kitchen is a hands-on learning experience that will teach how early settlers fed their families. Finally students will practice a variety of traditional chores while discovering the gender roles of the early settlers as well as how daily activities were done without things like running water or electricity.

Big Ideas:

• Gr.1 Communities have natural and built features and provide services that help meet the needs of people who live and work there.
  Changes occur in daily and seasonal cycles, these changes affect living things. Everything that happens is a result of using some form of energy.
  Gr.2 The traditions that we celebrate today have developed over the generations.
  Gr.3 The different communities in early nineteenth century Canada influence the way we live today.
  Social and environmental challenges were a major part of life in all communities in early nineteenth century Canada.

Grade Level: Kindergarten
Program Length: 120 minutes
Booking: All Year

In an age before video games, movies, or battery operated toys, how in the world did children spend their leisure time? Discover the toys and games of yesterday’s child. Students will see how the Good children lived over a hundred years ago, go for a hunt in the historic house, and bake a traditional recipe in the historic kitchen. The Playful Pastimes program is designed to allow kindergarteners to learn through play. By exploring the lives of the Myrtleville Children, students will continue to expand their personal and social development. This enjoyable hands-on museum experience will help foster a love of learning and support future success in field study. Young museum goers will enjoy baking in the historic kitchen, exploring the museum while on a mouse hunt, as well as making and playing with traditional wooden toys of the early settlers.

Grade Level: GR5 & G6
Program Length: 90 minutes
Booking: All Year

Students will explore the complex relationship between Indigenous Peoples and Early Settlers before 1713. Students will begin by investigating ways in which the early settlers and Indigenous Peoples assisted each other with trade, medicinal knowledge, and mapping. Utilizing a variety of primary and secondary resources, students will dig deeper into these interactions and investigate the conflict that arose between the Indigenous Peoples and Early Settlers. Students will focus on how interactions between people can be positive for some and negative for others. Students will demonstrate their knowledge by preparing tableaus based on art and other primary resources.

Big Ideas:

• Integration of education opportunities to improve knowledge of ALL students in Ontario about the rich culture and histories of the First Nations, Metis, and Inuit Peoples (FNMI Policy Framework)
  Gr.5 Interactions between people have consequences that can be positive for some and negative for others.
  When studying interrelationships between groups of people, it is important to be aware each group has its own perspective on those interrelationships.
  Gr.6 Many different communities have made significant contributions to Canada’s development.
  Different groups may experience the same development or event in different ways.
  Significant events in different communities have contributed to the development of the identity of that community and of Canada.