Location: Studio Bell
Duration: Three hours
Resources Provided: Let’s Explore Music educational guide
Curriculum Connections: Physical Geography, Cultural Diversity, Social Studies, The Senses
Cost: $320+GST/class (maximum 30 students)
Pre-Kindergarten to Grade 2
Using NMC’s Let’s Explore Music educational guide designed specifically for younger learners, students will explore the exhibition stages while completing fun activities about the colours, shapes, and sounds found at Studio Bell. Along the way, students will be amazed as they watch our skilled educators perform interactive demonstrations that encourage participation and hands-on, ears-on, minds-on learning.
As part of the full-day experience, your class will also receive a 15-minute Kimball Theatre Organ demonstration and one program in NMC classrooms that best meets your curriculum needs.
NMC Classroom Programs
Please select one of the following programs offered in NMC classrooms designed specifically for students in Pre-K to Grade 2:
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Patterns of Sound
Location: NMC Classrooms
Duration: 60 minutesDescription: Pitch, rhythm, and pulse—everything about music can be explained with patterns. Using technology, musical instruments, and physical movements, we will explore all of the amazing intersections between music and patterns.
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Canada Music Nation
Location: NMC Classrooms
Duration: 60 minutesDescription: Canada is made up of a mosaic of cultures. Our Canada Music Nation program explores the instruments, music, and traditions that form the cultural fabric of our country.
Location: Studio Bell
Duration: Three+ hours
Resources Provided: What Music is Made Of educational guide
Curriculum Connections: Hearing and Sound, Storytelling, Alberta: Histories and Stories, Communities in the World, Physiology of Hearing
Cost: $320+GST/class (maximum 30 students)
Grades 3 to 6
Find out What Music is Made Of with our custom educational guide for learners in Grades 3 to 6. Students will use the guide to explore the exhibition stages while completing fun activities on hearing and sound, oral storytelling, and the history of music in Canada. Along the way, our skilled educators will perform fun, interactive demonstrations that encourage participation and hands-on, ears-on, minds-on learning.
As part of the full-day experience, your class will also receive a 15-minute Kimball Theatre Organ demonstration and one program in NMC classrooms that best meets your curriculum needs.
NMC Classroom Programs
Please select one of the following programs offered in NMC classrooms designed specifically for students in Grades 3 to 6:
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Hearing and Sound
Location: NMC Classrooms
Duration: 60 minutesDescription: Get a close-up look at struck, plucked, air, and electronic instruments. Together, we will apply the concepts of pitch, volume, and timbre to the art of making music. Choose from a wide variety of musical instruments that help bring the hearing and sound curriculum to life!
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Words to Song
Location: NMC Classrooms
Duration: 60 minutesDescription: From harmony to rhythm to structure, all music is built from patterns. Students will explore how to make patterns out of words, using syllables, repetition, and rhyme. Students will then learn to recognize patterns from their favourite songs and use those patterns as a springboard for creation. This session is part composition workshop, part sing-along, and all fun!
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Making Instruments
Making Instruments
Location: NMC Classrooms
Duration: 60 minutesDescription: Explore the concepts of vibration, resonance, frequency and timbre through this interactive sound workshop using hands-on instrument building and technology.
Location: Studio Bell
Duration: Three+ hours
Resources Provided: Build a Band educational guide
Curriculum Connections: Social Studies, Aboriginal Studies, Electrical Principles and Tech, Fine Arts
Cost: $320+GST/class (maximum 30 students)
Grades 7 to 12
Build a Band using our custom educational guide designed for students in Grades 7 to 12. Students will use the guide to explore exhibition stages, learning about and completing activities on the history of music in Canada, rhythm and pitch, and Studio Bell’s one-of-a-kind artifacts. Along the way, our skilled educators will engage students in interactive demonstrations that encourage participation and hands-on learning.
As part of the full-day experience, your class will also receive a 15-minute Kimball Theatre Organ demonstration and one program in NMC classrooms that best meets your curriculum needs.
NMC Classroom Programs
Please select one of the following programs offered in NMC classrooms designed specifically for students in Grades 7 to 12:
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Deep Dive into Song
Location: NMC Classrooms
Duration: 60 minutesDescription: Chorus, verse, bridge, hook. We’ll take a deep dive into song structure, conventions and lyrics, and look at how to use persuasive writing to craft a great song you can’t get out of your head.
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Instrument Evolution
Location: NMC Classrooms
Duration: 60 minutesDescription: Get a hands-on history lesson and learn about the evolution of instruments. From woodwinds and brass to percussion and strings, we will explore how instruments are made and the fascinating stories behind their sounds.