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HISTORY CENTRE NEWS:
We are offering special Monday sessions on "Edmonton's Past" for Grade 2 !
No online registration is available for Grade 2, so please
email to make your booking - info@historycentre.ca.
Register early as sessions book quickly!
Please Note: Our rebate program continues for 2011-12. Rebates will be $150 per session for all Edmonton Public Schools.We are always looking for volunteers to help out at the History Centre! Please contact us for more information. Phone: 780-439-2794 or E-mail: info@historycentre.ca. (History Centre is located on the 3rd floor, with no elevator access.)
Welcome
Edmonton Public Schools and the Edmonton and District Historical Society are pleased to offer school programs at the History Centre in Queen Alexandra School.
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.
