A treasure of Saskatchewan history awaits the over 20,000 students who visit a WDM annually as part of a school field trip. There’s no better way to teach Saskatchewan students than to use programs and resources with Saskatchewan inspired connections, links and examples.
Museum Manners | Adult Chaperones
Wheels & Runners is a two-hour teacher-led program that demonstrates how transportation has played important roles in the development of Saskatchewan communities. Students will interact with transportation related artifacts, make a take-home craft, and tour the Museum.
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Teachers lead students in an artifact guessing game where points are gained towards the goal of settling a homestead. Allow extra time for a Museum gallery visit.
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Self-guided scavenger hunts for chaperoned student groups. Students work together to answer challenging, age-appropriate questions about Saskatchewan heritage.
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Through comparisons, students will explore how school life has changed from the early 1900s to present day for teachers and students.
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Students will explore Saskatchewan contributions to agriculture between 1905 and 2005.
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Students will discover that Saskatchewan is rich in resources, both in quantity and quality.
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Students will learn about Saskatchewan's participation in the world wars, our contributions, and about life on the homefront.
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Students will learn about early co-operation in Saskatchewan, what an organised co-operatives is, and what co-operative action means.
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Students will learn about how communication technologies, or lack thereof, affected the lives of people in the past, challenges which impeded communication with others, and how communication continues to play a major role in the lives of people today.
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Students will explore what farm life was like before the rural electrification program brought power to Saskatchewan's farms in the 1950s.
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Located on Treaty 4 and Treaty 6 territories and the Homeland of the Métis, the Western Development Museum (WDM) is the largest human history museum in Saskatchewan. With a collection.more....
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