EARLY LEARNERS DINO DISCOVERY TOUR
A special program for your young students who love dinosaurs and already know almost everything about them. Modeled on our popular Discovery Tour format, students will explore the galleries with a picture "treasure hunt," and handle some real fossils.

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EARLY LEARNERS FIRST NATIONS DISCOVERY TOUR
The First Nations Early Learners tour is a great introduction to the native people of the Northwest Coast. Geared for young learners, this tour uses stories, gallery exploration and our teaching collection to introduce Northwest Coast art and traditions to students. In the Burke’s Pacific Voices exhibit, students will hear a story, and then search the exhibit for objects found in the story. They will be able to touch real baskets, masks, and button blankets. Students will then make a Northwest Coast themed mask to take home with them.

EARLY LEARNERS JOURNEY 'ROUND THE RIM DISCOVERY TOUR
Do you want to travel around the world? Learn about what children do in other countries every day? This world travel experience is perfect for your group! “Travel” to four different countries in our Pacific Voices gallery. Learn what children in Japan wear, try out Hawaiian musical instruments and hold a Northwest Coast mask. Take home both a craft and your memories of your world tour.

GROWING WITH NATURE is just right for young students who see growing things all around them. In the Burke’s Biodiversity Lab, students will see and touch unusual natural objects both old and young, huge and tiny; act out the story of a tree as it grows from a seed; and look closely at an old-growth forest. Students will see first-hand that—just like them—lots of things in nature grow!

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GUIDED TOURS are a great way for young students to see the exhibits. Our docents make the exhibits come alive for young, curious minds. Students get a closer look at museum artifacts or scientific specimens, and can handle real fossils and rocks, or beautiful examples of art and tools from our hands-on teaching collections.

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*Special arrangements can be made for larger groups, and for groups that request longer visits.

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