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Bring History To Life 
With Guest Speakers From The Past

Travelling Elementary School Programs/Presentations 

Brought Into Your Classroom

Traditional Canadian Music and Dance
Gr. 2 Social Studies
Students learn about traditional musical instruments and dancing brought to Canada by early immigrants from the British Isles. The fiddle, bagpipes, whistle, and accordion are demonstrated and the students participate in simple folk dancing.

Meet The Pioneer Farmer
Invite a pioneer farmer into your classroom to talk to your students about life as a settler. Students are encouraged to ask this "first-person", costumed character questions. The pioneer will show them some of his farm tools, and teach them a barn dance.

Pioneer Music and Dance
Students learn from a pioneer character about the traditional musical instruments and dancing brought to Canada by immigrants from the British Isles. The fiddle, bagpipes, whistle, and accordion are demonstrated and the students participate in simple folk dancing.

Music and Dance in Medieval Times
Students learn from a "real" peasant character about the music and dance that was popular amongst the medieval peasantry. 

The fiddle, bagpipes, whistle, drum, and hurdy-gurdy are demonstrated, and the students learn simple dances from Medieval times, danced to live music.

Available Via Live Videoconference
Talk to the peasant live from inside his home in the village of Tintinhull. The home is an accurate reproduction of a medieval house interior.

Meet The Medieval Peasant
Invite a medieval Peasant into your classroom to teach your students about how 90% of the medieval population lived. Students are encouraged to ask this “first-person” character lots of questions.

The Peasant is prepared to discuss all facets of medieval life, such as the manor system, agriculture, religion, daily life, gender roles, crime & punishment, warfare, health, family life, social hierarchy, and entertainment.

This is an opportunity to interview a person from the past (or the next best thing). The students and teacher direct the discussion through their questions. The Peasant will bring farm tools, weapons, and coins, and teach them a medieval dance with live music on the bagpipes.

The Peasant is usually a farmer from the 1430s who fought against Joan of Arc as a foot-soldier, but a peasant can be brought from other eras to better suit your course of study, for example the Viking era or the First Crusade. Also, the peasant could be based on one of the characters from Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales", such as The Reeve, The Ploughman, or The Franklin.

Available Via Live Videoconference

Talk to the peasant live from inside his home in the village of Tintinhull.
The home is an accurate reproduction of a medieval house interior.

Meet The Medieval King
Bring one of history's most interesting monarchs into your classroom: King Alfred The Great. Alfred fought back from defeat to regain his kingdom from the Vikings, and he worked tirelessly to revitalize culture and learning in his realm. 

Amongst other topics, King Alfred can discuss kingship, law and order, Viking warfare, daily life, and castles. In addition to showing artifacts and answering questions, the students may try on an authentic Viking helmet, and King Alfred can teach the students a medieval dance and play live music.

Available Via Live Videoconference

Meet The Medieval Crusader
It is estimated that close to 100,000 people left Europe to take part in the First Crusade. Most of them were peasants, and most never returned home. There were many subsequent crusades, but none could claim the same degree of "success" as the First Crusade, which achieved its objective of capturing Jerusalem.

The character for this session is a peasant, reflecting the often overlooked role of peasants in medieval warfare. This crusader can discuss his motivations for going on the journey, describe the journey itself, recount the battles and sieges, and reflect on the aftermath.

He is also prepared to discuss all facets of medieval life in order to give an understanding of the background of the crusaders, such as the manor system, agriculture, religion, daily life, gender roles, crime & punishment, warfare, health, family life, social hierarchy, and entertainment.

This is an opportunity to interview a person from the past (or the next best thing). The students and teacher direct the discussion through their questions. The peasant will have on hand farm tools, weapons, sports equipment, and coins, and can teach them a medieval dance with live music on the bagpipes.

Available Via Live Videoconference

Meet The Loyalist Farmer

Invite a veteran Loyalist farmer into your classroom to talk to your students about life as an early Upper Canadian soldier and settler. This is an opportunity to interview a person from the past 
(or the next best thing). Students are encouraged to ask this “first-person” character questions. The Loyalist will show them some of his farm and army tools, and teach them a  barn dance 
with live fiddle music.

Available Via Live Videoconference
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Meet The War of 1812 Militia Veteran

Invite a veteran of the War of 1812 militia into your classroom to talk to your students about life as an early Upper Canadian soldier and settler, and the fight against the American invasions. 

This is an opportunity to interview a person from the past (or the next best thing). Students are encouraged to ask this “first-person” character questions. The veteran will show them some of his farm and army tools, and teach them a barn dance with live fiddle music.

Available Via Live Videoconference

Folk Dancing
Students are taught simple folk dances from the British Isles, and then dance them to live traditional folk music. (May also include a brief demonstration of the fiddle and bagpipes.) 

Booking Details

Schedule

• Sheffield Museum school programmes can be brought into your school on Mondays, Wednesdays Thursdays, and Fridays.

• Presentations run between 60-75 minutes. Three or four programs can be presented in one day, depending on your schedule.

• For each class of up to approximately 30 students: $125.00
• For groups larger than 30, $4.00 per student.
• A small travel charge of approx. 20 cents per km (round trip) will apply for schools located within a one hour's drive. See examples below. For schools between 1-2 hours away the charge will be 45 cents/km. For schools using videoconferencing there is no travel charge.
• GST will be added to the total for Canadian schools

City	Round-Trip Travel Charges
Brantford	$12
Cambridge	$7
Guelph	$14
Hamilton	$14
Kitchener	$14
London	$42
Mississauga	$29
Oakville	$22
Waterloo	$18