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Edmonton Public Schools is pleased to offer school programs at the History Centre in Queen Alexandra School. NEW: History on the Road sessions for Grades 7, 8, 10 and 11 in your classroom.
Due to funding cuts, we are currently able to offer sessions on Tuesdays and Wednesdays only. Should we be successful in obtaining additional funds, we will reopen Mondays and add those dates.
Dates for 2010-2011 sessions are now posted.
With the new restricted dates, book early to ensure your visit!
We are always looking for volunteers to help out at the History Centre! Please contact us for more information or to register as a volunteer. Phone: 780-439-2794 or E-mail: info@historycentre.ca. (Please note, the History Centre is on the third floor with no elevator access.)
What makes the History Centre unique?
- Historical knowledge needed to teach the curriculum.
- Student programs enable the children to “live” the experiences of the past:
- fur trading
- early life of the Metis people
- treaty signing
- early western explorers
- surveying the land
- homesteading
- the coming of the North West Mounted Police
- building of the railroad.
The Centre makes resources not readily found in the regular classroom available to teachers and students, thereby providing opportunities for enriched classroom activities. Partnering agencies contribute information, personnel and a variety of resources that equip the History Centre with a collection of artifacts, archival material, an assembly room for project work and a stage area for dramatic re-enactments of historical events. The History Centre currently offers its classes and workshops in English, but plans are under way to include presentations in other languages in the future.
A major goal of the History Centre is to cultivate a life-long appreciation of history and to develop appropriate research skills.
