School Programs
The Richmond Museum offers exciting and engaging learning resources for teachers and educators to help learning come alive! From education kits that can be used in the classroom to field trips that takes learning into the Richmond community, the Richmond Museum is dedicated to inspiring learning for all ages.Download the latest brochure here:
Richmond Museum School Programs Brochure 2010-2011
Field Trips
Cost: $4 per student (minimum charge of $80)
Take learning out of the classroom and into the Richmond community! Enjoy interactive and curriculum-based activities that promote critical thinking and creativity. All programs are 90 minutes in length.
Food For Thought: Life at London Farm
Experience first-hand what life was like for early farming pioneers through "Farmer Training". Students will learn about the London Family, perform common chores for children (collecting eggs and water), play Farmer Jeopardy, and analyze soil to determine proper growing conditions for crops. Students will also receive a special farming souvenir to take back home.
Suitability: Grades K-3
Offered: Year Round (Program takes place outdoors)
Location: London Heritage Farm, 6511 Dyke Road
Life in Sutebusuton
Travel back in time and explore what life was like for Japanese Canadians in Steveston before the Second World War. Meet members of the Murakami family, explore the Murakami House (fully restored to reflect what life was like in the 1930s), analyze objects that represent Japanese Canadian culture, and play a unique Japanese game.
Suitability: Grades 4-6
Offered: Year Round
Location: Britannia Heritage Shipyard, 5180 Westwater Drive
Let's Celebrate Winter!
Experience the magic of the holiday season with a multicultural twist! Learn how different cultures celebrate winter through the unwrapping of gifts, go on a scavenger hunt around the Museum to discover unique winter objects, play a game unique to Japanese New Year, and make a special pioneer craft to take home.
Suitability: Grades K-3
Offered: November-February
Location: Richmond Museum, 7700 Minoru Gate
To book a Field Trip
Download the Booking Request form below and submit via e-mail at museumed@richmond.ca or fax at 604-247-8341. All requests will be confirmed before they are considered valid. Richmond Museum Field Trip Booking Request Form
Education Kits
Cost: $45 for a 3 week loan.
Bring the museum into your classroom. These curriculum-based kits are filled with artefacts and activities for use in your classroom. Materials are adaptable for all ages and levels of English unless otherwise specified.
From Far and Wide: The Richmond Mosaic
Suitability: Grades 1-7, ESL
Explore cultural diversity in Richmond through this fun-filled, interactive resource for multicultural studies. A comprehensive teacher's manual provides endless ideas and activities for your class to work through over 200 objects, books, games, clothing, pictures, and more!
"Provided lots of hands-on opportunities for the kids...Had enough material for an entire year!" ~ Grade 2/3 Teacher in Richmond
Mudflatters: Richmond's Pioneer History 
Suitability: Grades 2 and up
Explore Richmond's diverse history of agriculture, fishing and community life through the eyes of its European settlers.
Find out what makes a sad iron "sad" and what a bog shoe looks like. Show photographs and watch a video of Richmond's past. Develop a "History of Richmond" using resources provided.
"Kids loved the ones like the hair crimper - very unique and generated lots of theories as to what they were!" ~ Grade 4/5 Teacher in Richmond
Musqueam - People of the River Grass in Richmond
Suitability: Grades 4 and up
Explore the history of the Musqueam in Richmond through artefacts, historical photographs, and historical documents.
Students will develop critical thinking skills and have access to unique Aboriginal resources.
"The students loved all of the hand carved artifacts and the cedar smell" ~ Grade 4/5 Teacher in Delta
Knocking on Rich Man's Gate: Chinese 
Immigration in Richmond
Suitability: Grades 4 and up
Experience Chinese immigration through this unique series of board games that takes students through the process of moving to Canada during the two waves of immigration.
Each student is assigned a character profile and document the challenges of the Head Tax and triumphs of achieving Canadian citizenship.
"I found this kit extremely useful...Games were amazing...Short films stirred powerful conversations." ~ Grade 4/5 Teacher in Delta
Urban Packers: An Interpretive Walk through Steveston
Explorateurs Urbains for French Immersion
Suitability: Grades 4 and up
(Adaptable for Grades 2-3)
Rent out a set of backpacks and unpack the diverse layers of Steveston's history through its architecture, culture/community, economy, transportation, and geography/environment.
Students are divided into small groups, and each takes a different route through Steveston, recording their observations and analyzing change and continuity along the way. Students also learn how to navigate using a compass.
"Wow!" ~ Grade 2/3 Teacher in Richmond
Immigration: The Canadian Experience
Suitability: Grades 5 and up
Uncover Canada's immigration history by exploring two suitcases filled with objects representing push-pull factors, books, DVDs, an oral history, and more! Discover the secret immigration story of the mysterious briefcase.
"Students liked holding the objects and really brought immigration alive. ~ Grade 4/5 Teacher in Richmond
The Internment Years: The Japanese Canadians during World War II
Suitability: Grades 5 and up
Examine a tragic period of Richmond history: the internment of Japanese Canadians during the Second World War.
Watch Obachan's Garden, based on the forced relocation of the Murakami family away from Steveston. Develop critical thinking skills through analyzing historical photographs and documents. Handle objects related to life in an internment camp.
Japan Through the Senses
Suitability: Grades 5 and up
Take a journey through Japanese culture through sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste. Wear Japanese clothing. Touch Japanese objects. Compare Japanese culture with Canadian culture. Watch films. See Japanese writing.
"Really brings it alive for the kids." ~ Grade 6 Teacher in Vancouver
To book an Education Kit
Download the Booking Request form below and submit via e-mail at museumed@richmond.ca or fax at 604-247-8341. All requests will be confirmed before they are considered valid. Richmond Museum Education Kit Booking Request Form
For more information, please contact:
Educational Programs Coordinator
Phone: 604-247-8334
Email: museumed@richmond.ca
Fax: 604-247-8341
