Educational Programs
The Georgina Pioneer Village & Archives is a dynamic location for hands-on, interactive school programs for Grade 3 students.
Focusing on the daily lives of early settlers, these programs are multi-sensory and curriculum-related.
During a visit to the Georgina Pioneer Village & Archives, students will take part in various demonstrations and activities
that depict the chores, jobs, and pastimes of nineteenth-century settlers. Some of the demonstrations and activities to
choose from include heritage cooking, chair caning, spinning, weaving, candle making and medicine making.
All programs can be modified to suit your specific classroom instruction, and are offered in either half-day or full-day
durations.
If you wish to provide your students with an engaging and informative introduction to Canada's history of early settlement,
please contact us today for further information.
Curriculum Links
Education programs provided by the Georgina Pioneer Village & Archives are directly linked to the Grade 3 Early Settlement
Unit.
During a visit to the Village, students will:
- Make comparisons between aspects of life in early settler communities and present-day communities (e.g. buildings and structures,
daily routines, education, jobs, recreation, food preparation, etc.)
- Learn about how early settlers learned from First Nation peoples in ways that helped them adapt to their new environment (e.g.,
knowledge about food and medicine)
- View examples of buildings and structures that comprised an early settlement (e.g., church, schoolhouse, general store, blacksmith
shop, and log home)
- Become re-acquainted with appropriate vocabulary learned in the classroom (e.g., pioneer, settlers, grist mill, settlement, general
store, blacksmith, First Nation peoples, barter system, etc.)
- Examine various tools, technologies, and common household items used by early settlers and/or First Nation peoples, and evaluate
how they differ, or are similar to, present-day examples
James Anderson Education Program
Contact the Village for further details. The James Anderson Education Program will be launched in 2009.