Sleepover with the Dinosaurs!
Spend a night with the dinosaurs! (Set up your bedrolls in the museum gallery!) The Museum offers three different overnight packages for school classes or groups. These are intended for groups travelling more than 168 km (100 miles) to Parrsboro, NS. However, if there are spaces open, closer groups will be considered. Overnight packages are available for September, October, April, May and June.
We are only 100 kms from Truro and 60 kms from Amherst.
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| All overnight groups pay an overnight fee per group
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18 hour package (7:00 pm to 1:00pm)
(ideal for weekends) | Guided MuseumTour, workshop, guided beach tour (Choose one workshops, lab/activity and a beach location from the list below.) Food: evening snack, cold cereal and toast breakfast, hot dog lunch | $33 |
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24 hour package (1:00 pm to 1:00pm)
(Monday/Tuesay or Thursday/Friday) (groups: Saturday/Sunday) | Guided Museum Tour, workshops, guided beach tour and lab/activity. (Choose two workshops and two beach locations from the list below.)Food: supper (pizza etc.), evening snack, cold cereal and toast breakfast, hot dog lunch | $33 |
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| 24 hour plus! | Guided MuseumTour, workshops, guided beach tour (Choose two workshops and two beach locations from the list below.) Food: supper (pizza etc.), evening snack, cold cereal and toast breakfast, hot dog lunch. Meal in Springhill or Joggins can be arranged. Plus | $30 plus |
| Ottawa House Museum (10 minutes from FGM. Tour of Sir Charles Tupper's Summer home and Ice Cream | $4.00 |
| Springhill Miner's Museum (45 minutes from FGM) Go underground and experience the life of a miner. At the Museum, look at artifacts from the disasters. | $4.00 |
| Joggins Fossil Centre (1 hour from FGM) Explore and admire the fossils on the beach. Tour the museum celebrating this UNESCO heritage site.) | $9.00 |
| Heritage Models (on way to Joggins!) Explore the artistry of the world in miniature. Coal mine, town fair, | $3.00 |
| Age of Sail Museum (1 hour return form FGM) Walk into another age when sailing ships made on this shore were the transport trucks of the Bay of Fundy and the world. | $3.00 |
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| Workshops
__Make an agate necklace (Choose your own agate) and learn how agate is tumbled
__Make a plaster fossil (less than 25 students) learn about the animals and plants that formed the fossils
__Make a specimen card of local rocks and minerals and learn about local rock and minerals and their uses. | |
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| Guided beach tour to: ___Partridge Island's tall basalt cliffs which yield a variety of rocks and minerals on the beach for you to collect including quartz, agate, granite, stilbite and MAYBE amethyst. ___East Bay's dramatically tilted cliffs showing an ancient lake environment . Look for ripple marks, mud cracks and amphibian tracks! (All fossils are the property of the government of N.S.)
___Wasson's Bluff ( for Grade 4 and up)has the same rocks and minerals as on the Partridge Island Beach and students will on the same shoreline that our dinosaurs walked 200 million years ago. (With a steep hill access and rugged beach, it isn't as accessible as the other sites.) | |
| Packages are flexible! Contact us for information. | |
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| All fossils are the property of the government of N.S. | |
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Pat & Carol at the Education Department
Email: gov.ns.ca
Please add tax to all prices.
Please refer to School Group page for beach tour locations and workshops options.
Twenty hour program in Parrsboro and area. Includes sleepover with the dinosaurs, one beach tour, museum tour, two workshops. Group arrives after supper.
Jurassic Class Trip (7:00 pm to 3:00 pm)
$25.00 per person
Museum tour ,Field trip
Workshops: specimen card & jewellery
Supper
Evening session: choose one
marshmallow roast
First Nations program
or hike
Video/popcorn/juice
Breakfast
Gift shop
Beach
Lunch
Twenty four hour program in Parrsboro and area. Includes sleepover with the dinosaurs, two beach tours, museum tour, three workshops. Arrive at 1:00 pm on Depart from museum on day 2 at 1:00 pm
Museum tour,Field trip
Workshops: specimen card & jewellery
Supper
Evening session: choose one
marshmallow roast
First Nations program or hike
Video/popcorn/juice
Breakfast
Gift shop
Jurassic/Carboniferous Class Trip
Arrive at 1:00 pm on Day 1- Depart for home by 6:00 pm on day 2
Includes the above plus Joggins Fossil Centre, Heritage Center, and Fossil Cliff tour and a visit to the Miner's museum in Springhill.Sleep in the museum with the dinosaurs $132.00 per night per group +
$57.50 + 8.63 = 66.13 (66.00) per person
Museum video & tour
Field trip
Workshops: specimen card & jewellery
Supper
marshmallow roast
The Fundy Geological Museum offers a wide variety of high quality, educational & fun school packages. Students of all ages may participate in programs geared specifically for their age-group and curriculum!
Pat & Carol at the Education Department
Email: gov.ns.ca