School Programs
Secondary School Programs
MOA welcomes teachers to book their classes for guided or self-guided tours of the Museum. In addition, our Outreach Kits, including My Ancestors Are Still Dancing Kit and Residential School Kit are available for rental throughout the school year.
To request a booking, please click here: http://moa.ubc.ca/group-bookings/
Under Educational Websites educators can find The Spirit of Islam: Experiencing Islam through Calligraphy, Musqueam Weavers and The Respect to Bill Reid Pole virtual exhibits. Two on-line curricula are accessed through Teacher Resources: Returning the Past: Repatriation of First Nations Cultural Property (secondary-level program focusing on repatriation), and an ESL Resource Guide (offers ESL teachers and students of all ages activities, worksheets, and background information on First Nations of the Northwest Coast).
Architecture: The Museum as Muse
Grades 8-12
Duration: 2 hrs
Time: Tuesday and Thursday 10:00 am
Architecture: Museum as Muse is designed to encourage students to actively observe and respond to built environments and to respond to the Museum in new ways. During this program, students explore and discuss the relationship between design and function in contrasting exhibition spaces at MOA, and in a selection of acclaimed international museums. This program aims to introduce students to multiple aspects of architecture design – light, size, color, sound, mood, space, flow – and to consider ways that cultural traditions and environmental conditions affect design. Teacher's notes can be found on the Teacher resources page.
Transforming Image
Grades 9-12
Duration: 1 hr 30 min
Time: Time: Tuesday and Thursday 10:00 am
Transforming Image is designed to develop an awareness of the skills and technologies required to research, design and create Northwest Coast (NWC) art. During this program, students are introduced to the Image Recovery Project, spearheaded by MOA Curator of the Pacific Northwest, Bill McLennan and the use of infrared photography to reveal painted images on a range of wooden surfaces which have been obscured over time. This program aims to encourage a respect for NWC cultures and an understanding of how NWC designs were, and continue to be, created today. Teacher's notes can be found on the Teacher resources page.
