Wednesday 20 February 2013

Vancouver Museum

Today was a very exciting day for Division, at the Museum of Vancouver in Kitsilano.  The morning consisted of exploring the History of Vancouver, where we learned about the "Roaring 20's" and early real-estate Boom, the Bust during the depression years, the War that followed, the "Revolution", and the "Hippie" era.  Students loved being able to model the fashion styles, sit in the old White Spot booth, pretend to be the proud owners of a 55 Ford Fairlane, play music from the jukebox, play with different wooden toys and games, and learn about how our great city came to be!

After a quick walk to the beach for lunch, we began our Educational Workshops.  The students got to participate in two different sessions that complemented our Ancient Egyptian unit very well.  The first was the Archaeological Dig, whereby students learned how to carefully uncover and analyze artifacts from ancient civilizations around the world.  Fortunately, they were all experts on the Scientific Process, and came up with some excellent hypotheses!  The second session was the Mummy Exhibit.  Not only did the students learn the purpose and procedures for mummification, they got to see the mummy of a 10 year old boy named Panechates, son of Hatres, from Ancient Egypt!




















11 comments:

  1. The mummy was kinda freaky.............

    -C.M.

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  2. mrs.pogue! don't post the mummy on! so scary!
    -Eva

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  3. That was really a great field trip!
    Especially the Mummy part!
    Lemon

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    1. Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh........................................................, I don't think so..................

      -Cookie monster (the guy who sits behind the 'really handsome guy' in your class)

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  4. The mummy was kind of creepy, it freaks me out!
    *shivers*

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  5. i was not fascinated, i was rathered disturbed...

    -C

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  6. How was Skiing, Mrs Pogue?

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    1. Skiing was great, thanks for asking! I hope you had a wonderful weekend too:)

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  7. I wasn't even looking anymore when we took the picture.
    -Cookie

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  8. did you know that some of our Museum pics are on the Internet!!
    ......Cool!)
    Lemon

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