Resources for Teachers

Teachers are invited to use NVMA’s free Education Resource Centre to enrich their classroom lessons. Books, DVDs, and photographs on the history of North Vancouver and the Lower Mainland are available for loan.

Clio Clic is an educational guide designed to employ museum web resources for teaching secondary level Canadian history or Social Studies classes.

Keys to History invites you to discover, see, experience and learn about Canadian history through a website developed with the McCord Museum of Canadian History. North Vancouver shows include:

• A Rivetted Community: North Vancouver's Wartime Shipbuilding
• Building a Vancouver Icon: the Lions Gate Bridge
• Moodyville: Legend and Legacy
• Wilderness on the Doorstep: Vancouver's Mountain Playground

Exploring Native Newcomer Relations. Secondary level students will critically analyze both archival and contemporary newspaper articles relating to aboriginal rights and title in British Columbia. This program is based upon the exhibition Entwined Histories, which presents the story of native activism in the mid-twentieth century through the lens of one individual (Maisie Hurley, 1887-1962), founder of the Native Voice newspaper. Online Program

Climbing to the Clouds: A People's History of BC Mountaineering School Program

For Intermediate and Secondary Level students who will investigate the subject of mountaineering and its history from a variety of perspectives including art, science and technology. This program is based on the virtual exhibit of the same name. Online Program

Upcoming public programs are listed on the What’s On page.