Ontario curriculum subject: Holiday Season Programming
Grade: Kindergarten

Program name: Family Life during the Holidays
Topic: Traditions & Celebrations
Topic 2: Early Settlements in Upper Canada


Description: Experience the rules and responsibilities of family life during the holiday season through hands-on exploration of 19th-century children’s work and play time.

• Students discover changes to family roles over time as they compare the Gibson children’s experience to their own.
  
• Develop cooperative skills by working together to make gingerbread in the historic kitchen.
  
• Discover how children helped on the farm as they card sheep’s fleece.
  
• Play with 19th-century toys & games and compare an early Scottish families holiday tradtions with their own. Add HST to the price listed below.
  

Ontario curriculum subject: Holiday Season Programming
Grade: Kindergarten

Program name: Holiday Preparations
Topic: Traditions & Celebrations
Topic 2: Relationships and Surroundings


Description: Contrast the quiet family observances of a mid-19th-century Scottish-Canadian Christmas with the boisterous community celebration of Scottish New Year.

• Make gingerbread over the open hearth
  
• Participate in a traditional Scottish “First Footing” ceremony
  
• Play with 19th-century toys & games
  
• Make a gift to take home. Add HST to the price listed below.
  

Ontario curriculum subject: History
Grade: Kindergarten

Program name: Victorian Christmas Traditions
Topic: Traditions & Celebrations
Topic 2: Local Community
Topic 3: Local Community


Description: Exploring the 1858 home of former Mayor William Lyon Mackenzie, discover how everyday life was made more cheerful with festive preparations.

• Learn how holiday foods, decorations, music and get-togethers became traditions passed down between generations.
  
• Participate in a sing-a-long as you enjoy a holiday treat and warm mulled cider in our cozy dayroom.
  
• Print your own holiday postcards on the 1845 printing press as you learn about the history of Christmas cards.
  
• Create a thaumatrope as a souvenir. Add HST to the price listed below.
  

Ontario curriculum subject: Holiday Season Programming
Grade: Kindergarten

Program name: Cat's Christmas in Etobicoke
Topic: Oral Communications
Topic 2: Relationship, Rules & Responsibilities


Description: Puppetry and storytelling are used to explore what life was like in the 1840s. Discover the Inn with Magda, the eccentric cat and:

• Compare ways of heating, lighting, eating, washing, sleeping, working and playing.
  
• Help prepare a 19th century recipe in the open-hearth kitchen
  
• May be modified for Grades JK through 2
  
• Add HST to the price listed below.
  

Ontario curriculum subject: Language
Grade: Kindergarten

Program name: Magda Marches On
Topic: Oral Communications


Description: This interactive, hands-on program uses puppetry and storytelling to explore what life was like in an 1840s Inn. Students discover the Inn with Magda, Mrs. Montgomery's eccentric cat and:

• compare ways of heating, lighting, eating, washing, sleeping, working and playing
  
• Help the cook in the open-hearth kitchen prepare a 19th century recipe
  
• Add HST to the price listed below
  

Ontario curriculum subject: Science & Technology
Grade: Kindergarten

Program name: Hickory Dickory Dock
Topic: Exploration & Experimentation
Topic 2: Relationship, Rules & Responsibilities


Description: Your class will experience objects common to the era through cooking, household chores and playing with toys.

• Prepare scone dough, see it baked over the open hearth and enjoy the results
  
• Play with toys of the 1800s
  
• Participate in 19th-century chores using a washboard, carpet beaters and wool carders.
  
• Add HST to the price listed below
  

Ontario curriculum subject: Drama
Grade: Kindergarten

Program name: Songs and Stories
Topic: Optics, Drama + Dance


Description: Dive into Scarborough’s past with storytelling, expressive song & games!

• Learn about voice projection and sing expressive songs
  
• Play improvisation games
  
• Explore storytelling in a fun, creative way in a historic setting
  

Ontario curriculum subject: Arts (including Visual Arts)
Grade: Grade 1

Program name: Life Sized Collage
Topic: Visual Arts


Description: Students will learn about using materials from their daily lives to create art. Each student will be traced on a piece of mural paper, and will use recycled materials to create a collage that represents his/herself. Additional art materials will be used, and a discussion about recycling will take place.

• Create a life sized collage
  
• Produce 2-D work of art that communicates ideas
  
• Identify a variety of art tools, materials and techniques and demonstrate understanding of their proper and safe use
  
• Recognize that objects can be recycled and demonstrate ways of reusing materials in daily activities
  

Ontario curriculum subject: Social Studies
Grade: Grade 1

Program name: Family Life
Topic: Relationship, Rules & Responsibilities


Description: Experience the rules and responsibilities of family life in the Gibson household through hands-on exploration of 19th-century children’s work and play time.

• Students discover changes to family roles over time as they compare the Gibson children’s experience to their own.
  
• Develop cooperative skills by working together to bake scones and churn butter in the historic kitchen.
  
• Discover how children helped on the farm as they card sheep’s fleece.
  
• Play with 19th-century toys & games. Add HST to the price listed below.
  

Ontario curriculum subject: Holiday Season Programming
Grade: Grade 1

Program name: Family Life during the Holidays
Topic: Traditions & Celebrations
Topic 2: Early Settlements in Upper Canada


Description: Experience the rules and responsibilities of family life during the holiday season through hands-on exploration of 19th-century children’s work and play time.

• Students discover changes to family roles over time as they compare the Gibson children’s experience to their own.
  
• Develop cooperative skills by working together to make gingerbread in the historic kitchen.
  
• Discover how children helped on the farm as they card sheep’s fleece.
  
• Play with 19th-century toys & games and compare an early Scottish families holiday tradtions with their own. Add HST to the price listed below.
  

Ontario curriculum subject: Holiday Season Programming
Grade: Grade 1

Program name: Holiday Preparations
Topic: Traditions & Celebrations
Topic 2: Relationship, Rules & Responsibilities


Description: Contrast the quiet family observances of a mid-19th-century Scottish-Canadian Christmas with the boisterous community celebration of Scottish New Year.

• Make gingerbread over the open hearth
  
• Participate in a traditional Scottish “First Footing” ceremony
  
• Play with 19th-century toys & games
  
• Make a gift to take home. Add HST to the price listed below.
  

Ontario curriculum subject: History
Grade: Grade 1

Program name: Victorian Christmas Traditions
Topic: Traditions & Celebrations
Topic 2: Local Community
Topic 3: Local Community


Description: Exploring the 1858 home of former Mayor William Lyon Mackenzie, discover how everyday life was made more cheerful with festive preparations.

• Learn how holiday food, decorations, music and get-togethers became traditions passed down between generations.
  
• Participate in a sing-a-long as you enjoy a holiday treat and warm mulled cider in our cozy dayroom.
  
• Print your own holiday postcards on the 1845 printing press as you learn about the history of Christmas cards.
  
• Create a thaumatrope as a souvenir. Add HST to the price listed below.
  

Ontario curriculum subject: Holiday Season Programming
Grade: Grade 1

Program name: Christmas at the Inn
Topic: Traditions & Celebrations


Description: You are cordially invited to a christmas celebration at the Inn. Winter was the time to visit and attend parties in 1840s Canada and the Inn continues this tradition.

• Add HST to the price below.
  

Ontario curriculum subject: Holiday Season Programming
Grade: Grade 1

Program name: A Victorian Christmas in Scarborough
Topic: Traditions & Celebrations
Topic 2: Relationship, Rules & Responsibilities


Description: Compare Christmas traditions celebrated in the 1800s with those of early settlers in our historic buildings.

• Bake a holiday treat!
  
• Decorate a wreath for the classroom.
  
• Observe the science of grinding Christmas spices.
  
• Add HST to the price listed below.
  

Ontario curriculum subject: Drama
Grade: Grade 1

Program name: Creative Play
Topic: Drama + Dance


Description: Dive into Scarborough’s past with storytelling, improvisation, expressive song & tableau theatre!

• Create and perform fairytale tableaux
  
• Play improvisation games and sing expressive songs
  
• Explore storytelling in a fun, creative way in a historic setting
  
• Bake treats in a Victorian kitchen
  

Ontario curriculum subject: Science & Technology
Grade: Grade 1

Program name: Freddy the Mouse Finds a House
Topic: Characteristics of Objects and Properties of Materials
Topic 2: Relationship, Rules & Responsibilities


Description: Explore life as a settler through interactive storytelling and hands-on activities. Observe changes which take place as you measure and add ingredients, stir, roll and cut out a traditional candy mixture.

• Compare and contrast family traditions and the responsibilites of early settler children with those of the present day
  
• Prepare a traditional candy in the Victorian kitchen
  
• Play parlour games
  
• Feel wool, see how a hurricane lantern works and smell the aroma of the wood-burning hearth Add HST to the price below
  

Ontario curriculum subject: Science & Technology
Grade: Grade 1

Program name: Creepy Crawlies and Puddle Jumpers
Topic: Life Systems
Topic 2: Characteristics and Needs of Living Things


Description: Explore meadowland, forest, and wetland habitats and discover the basic needs of animals and plants throughout the year

• Using a variety of materials, create a three-dimensional "creepy crawly"
  
• Spring/Fall: Investigate and identify the macro-invertebrates living in the pond and make a drawing of these observations
  
• Winter: Through creative movement, students are introduced to animal tracks, and how different animals move.
  
• Add HST to the price listed below
  

Ontario curriculum subject: Social Studies
Grade: Grade 1

Program name: Families Lived Here
Topic: Relationship, Rules & Responsibilities
Topic 2: Local Community


Description: Visit the 19th-century Helliwell Home and explore the family members' roles and responsibilities

• Handle real artifacts and discover their uses and roles in everyday activities
  
• Discover how the physical environment has changed at Todmorden, draw a map of the historic community and its industries and design and apply a colour-coded legend
  
• Add HST to the price below.
  

Ontario curriculum subject: Social Studies
Grade: Grade 1

Program name: My First Museum Visit
Topic: Local Community


Description: Explore the Museum and its important role in the community through games, storytelling and interaction with real artifacts.

• Learn about what a museum is and what museum workers do
  
• Handle real museum pieces and guess their function.
  
• Examine photos and artifacts to see how life in York has changed over a century.
  
• Compare personal experiences with stories of the community from the early 20th century. (Add HST to the price below)
  

Ontario curriculum subject: History
Grade: Grade 10

Program name: First World War and the Canadian Soldier
Topic: Canadian History Since World War I (First World War)


Description: Through the use of artefacts and an authentic reproduction of a soldier's uniform and kit, students explore Canada's contribution to WW1 and the role of the common soldier in that conflict

Ontario curriculum subject: History
Grade: Grade 10

Program name: Bringing it Home: Class, Culture and the Great Depression
Topic: Canadian History Since World War I (First World War)


Description: Where could help be found in 1930s Toronto? Government relief was inadequate, intentionally shameful and rare. Charities were overwhelmed.

• Visit Spadina Museum, restored to a period when the philanthropy of the wealthy was the social net.
  
• Using drama, film, music and documents from the Austin collection at Spadina museum, students examine the class struggles and cultural viewpoints that shaped the 1930s in Canada.
  
• "Bringing it Home" was awarded silver by Interpretation Canada for excellence in education programming 2012.
  

Ontario curriculum subject: History
Grade: Grade 10

Program name: The First World War - A Toronto Family's Experience
Topic: Canadian History Since World War I (First World War)
Topic 2: Conflict and Change


Description: This participatory program confronts students with the personal experiences of a prominent Toronto family before, during and following the First World War.

• Analyze archival material and artifacts.
  
• Explore the war contributions of an artilleryman, a nurse and their family at home in Toronto.
  
• Add HST to the price listed
  

Ontario curriculum subject: History
Grade: Grade 10

Program name: World After War: Consumer Culture in the 1920s
Topic: Canadian History Since World War I (First World War)


Description: Born of the Great War, the 1920s was a time of expanding economies, increased consumer choice and enlarged discretionary incomes.

• To immerse your class, character cards are given to the students assigning them identities based on the lives of actual Torontonians in the 1920s
  
• Students examine artifacts and documents to choose how they will live.
  
• Buy a car, go to the movies, pay rent; many things are possible in this examination of life in the booming years of the 1920s.
  
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Ontario curriculum subject: Social Sciences & Humanities
Grade: Grade 12

Program name: Local/Global: Food Sources in the historic St. Lawrence Market
Topic: Family Studies
Topic 2: Food and Nutritional Sciences


Description: Using the St. Lawrence Market as a resource, students investigate the issues surrounding the production and distribution of food in Toronto, particularly access to local and global food sources.

• Students create a map of food sources in their neighbourhood
  
• Students visit the Market and source local and/or organic ingredients for the provided recipe
  
• Students present and discuss what they found and the issues raised
  
• This program meets the course requirements of secondary school Food and Nutritional Sciences programs
  

Ontario curriculum subject: History
Grade: Grade 12

Program name: Bertie's Story 1888-1913
Topic: Methods of Historical Inquiry & Communication


Description: Participants decode letters, report cards, photographs and artefacts to determine the personal values and narrative of one member of the Austin family.

• Spadina staff work with students, assisting them and sharing their experiences as professionals in a museum setting analysing, interpreting and communicating historical content.
  
• Trip can be enhanced by booking a tour of the City of Toronto Archives, a 10 minute walk from Spadina Museum. Contact 416-397-5000 ext. 3 or archives@toronto.ca
  
• This program conforms to the expectations described in Interdisciplinary Course grade 12 IDC4UI Archives and Local History
  

Ontario curriculum subject: Arts (including Visual Arts)
Grade: Grade 2

Program name: Japanese Hanging Koi
Topic: Visual Arts


Description: Students will learn about Japanese Culture and symbolism as they create a colourful windsock using the technique of collage.

• Create a Japanese Hanging Koi
  
• Explore use of colour, shape and texture
  
• Collage techniques
  

Ontario curriculum subject: Social Studies
Grade: Grade 2

Program name: A Child's Holiday
Topic: Traditions & Celebrations


Description: Experience traditional Christmas celebrations that enchanted children in the 19th century by visiting decorated rooms and engaging in hands-on activities.

• Learn about special holiday foods, early ornaments and traditional decorative greenery.
  
• Enjoy a Christmas treat and cider.
  
• Play with 19th-century toys, and make an ornament by the hearth.
  
• Students see pictures and hear stories about the Victorian version of Santa Claus and holiday fun. Add HST to the price listed below
  

Ontario curriculum subject: Social Studies
Grade: Grade 2

Program name: Holiday Traditions
Topic: Traditions & Celebrations


Description: Experience traditional Christmas celebrations that enchanted children in the 19th century by visiting decorated rooms and engaging in hands-on activities.

• Learn about special holiday foods, early ornaments and traditional decorative greenery
  
• Enjoy a Christmas treat and cider
  
• Play with Victorian toys by the hearth
  
• Add HST to the price listed below.
  

Ontario curriculum subject: Holiday Season Programming
Grade: Grade 2

Program name: Family Life during the Holidays
Topic: Traditions & Celebrations
Topic 2: Early Settlements in Upper Canada


Description: Experience the roles and responsibilities of family life during the holiday season through hands-on exploration of 19th-century children’s work and play time.

• Students discover changes to family roles over time as they compare the Gibson children’s experience to their own.
  
• Develop cooperative skills by working together to make gingerbread in the historic kitchen.
  
• Discover how children helped on the farm as they card sheep’s fleece.
  
• Play with 19th-century toys & games and compare an early Scottish families holiday tradtions with their own. Add HST to the price listed below.
  

Ontario curriculum subject: Holiday Season Programming
Grade: Grade 2

Program name: Holiday Preparations
Topic: Traditions & Celebrations


Description: Contrast the quiet family observances of a mid-19th-century Scottish-Canadian Christmas with the boisterous community celebration of Scottish New Year.

• Make gingerbread over the open hearth
  
• Participate in a traditional Scottish “First Footing” ceremony
  
• Play with 19th-century toys & games
  
• Make a gift to take home. Add HST to the price listed below.
  

Ontario curriculum subject: History
Grade: Grade 2

Program name: Victorian Christmas Traditions
Topic: Traditions & Celebrations
Topic 2: Local Community
Topic 3: Local Community


Description: Exploring the 1858 home of former Mayor William Lyon Mackenzie, discover how everyday life was made more cheerful with festive preparations.

• Learn how holiday foods, decorations, music and get-togethers became traditions passed down between generations.
  
• Participate in a sing-a-long as you enjoy a holiday treat and warm mulled cider in our cozy dayroom.
  
• Print your own holiday postcards on the 1845 printing press as you learn about the history of Christmas cards.
  
• Create a thaumatrope as a souvenir. Add HST to the price listed below.
  

Ontario curriculum subject: Social Studies
Grade: Grade 2

Program name: Christmas at the Inn
Topic: Traditions & Celebrations


Description: You are cordially invited to a Christmas celebration at the Inn. Winter was the time to visit and attend parties in 1840s canada and the Inn continues this tradition

• Compare 19th century winter activities, holiday traditions and decorations
  
• Help the cook with Christmas baking in the open hearth kitchen
  
• Add HST to the price listed below
  

Ontario curriculum subject: Social Studies
Grade: Grade 2

Program name: A Victorian Christmas in Scarborough
Topic: Traditions & Celebrations
Topic 2: Relationship, Rules & Responsibilities


Description: Compare Christmas traditions celebrated in the 1800s with those of early settlers in our historic buildings.

• Bake a holiday treat!
  
• Decorate a wreath for the classroom.
  
• Observe the science of grinding Christmas spices
  
• Add HST to the price listed below
  

Ontario curriculum subject: Drama
Grade: Grade 2

Program name: Creative Play
Topic: Drama + Dance


Description: Dive into Scarborough’s past with storytelling, improvisation, expressive song & tableau theatre!

• Create and perform fairytale tableaux
  
• Play improvisation games and sing expressive songs
  
• Explore storytelling in a fun, creative way in a historic setting
  
• Bake treats in a Victorian kitchen
  

Ontario curriculum subject: Mathematics
Grade: Grade 2

Program name: Freddy the Mouse Finds a House
Topic: Characteristics of Objects and Properties of Materials
Topic 2: Patterning and Algebra


Description: Explore life as a settler through interactive storytelling and hands-on activities. Observe changes which take place as you measure and add ingredients, stir, roll and cut out a traditional candy mixture.

• Compare and contrast family traditions and responsibilities of early settler children with those of the present day.
  
• Prepare a traditional candy in the Victorian kitchen.
  
• Play parlour games.
  
• Feel wool, see how a hurricane lantern works and smell the aroma of the wood-burning hearth. (Add HST to the price listed below)
  

Ontario curriculum subject: Social Studies
Grade: Grade 2

Program name: History Detectives
Topic: Heritage & Citizenship
Topic 2: Properties & Change in Matter
Topic 3: Methods of Historical Inquiry & Communication


Description: Teachers create this in-class program Scarborough Museum delivers it Students become history detectives as they discover Scarborough's past!

• Teachers choose any 2 activities to create this 1 hour program (2 hour option available)
  
• Activities include: Artifact Detectives Masters of Disguise Classroom Time Capsule History Detective Games Super Sleuth Interviews Navigating Old Scarborough Village
  
• For more detailed information on the activities contact the museum.
  

Ontario curriculum subject: Traditions & Celebrations
Grade: Grade 2

Program name: Holly Jolly Holiday
Topic: Traditions & Celebrations
Topic 2: Oral Communications


Description: A more in-depth exploration of the 50 room mansion and the the seasonal traditions of the Austin family

• Be immersed in an authentic 1920s environment with decorations as remembered by the grandchildren when they visited the home
  
• Bake in the historic kitchen
  
• Make a seasonal craft to take home
  
• Explore the 1920s Christmas decorations of the Austin family and compare them with seasonal traditions in Toronto today
  

Ontario curriculum subject: Traditions & Celebrations
Grade: Grade 2

Program name: Winter Wonderland
Topic: Traditions & Celebrations
Topic 2: Oral Communications


Description: Be immersed in an authentic 1920s environment. The house is decorated as Austin family members remember it when they visited as grandchildren

• Use touch, taste, smell and sounds to experience 1920s seasonal traditions
  
• Participants share their own memories of special occasions within their own family
  
• Prepare a 1920s recipe in the historic kitchen
  
• Examine family photos and documents to personalize the experience of the Austin family
  

Ontario curriculum subject: Social Studies
Grade: Grade 2

Program name: Ghosts of Christmas Past
Topic: Traditions & Celebrations


Description: Explore how Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol built upon the Victorian tradition of Christmas Eve ghost stories and transformed pre-industrial celebrations into today's popular traditions.

• Prepare a traditional treat on the open hearth
  
• Explore the holiday celebrations of the 1840s
  
• Learn the famous dance from Fezziwig's Christmas Eve party
  
• Add HST to the price listed below
  

Ontario curriculum subject: Social Studies
Grade: Grade 2

Program name: A Schoolhouse Christmas
Topic: Traditions & Celebrations
Topic 2: Early Settlements in Upper Canada


Description: Join in the fun of preparing for a Schoolhouse Christmas.

• Become a 1910 child through role play and imagination
  
• Participate in turn-of-the-century lessons
  
• Prepare a Christmas poem for the school concert
  
• Decorate the classroom with a hand-made ornament and make a gift to take home. Add HST to the price listed below.