Education Programs

We offer education programs for various grades that are designed to meet specific curriculum outcomes aligned with the Nova Scotia Department of Education. We offer both on-site (Education at the Park) and off-site (Education in Your Classroom) programming. See what Education Programs we offer below!

Education in Your Classroom

Education Programs in your classroom are approximately 2 hours in length. You may choose to have one 2-hour program, or two shortened 1-hour programs for two separate classes at the same school. If you have a split class or a grade that we do not offer a program for, you may choose what program will best fit your class.

Bookings must be between the hours of 8:00 AM and 3:00 PM, and we travel within a 100 km radius of the Shubenacadie Wildlife Park.

Each Education in Your Classroom booking grants one or two classes access to a program, with up to three program bookings available each day. You can see our availability and book online here.

Grade P/1/2/4 – Wetland Mystery

Primary - Life Science: Living Things

  • Learners will compare living things through the senses

Grade 1 - Life Science: Needs of Living Things 

  • Learners will analyse interconnectiveness of living things and the environment

Grade 2 - Life Science: Animal Growth and Changes

  • Learners will analyse the relationship between animal growth and the environment

Grade 4 - Life Science: Habitat

  • Learners will investigate a variety of local natural habitats

Learners will have an interactive show-and-tell of various skulls, tracks, scat, pelts, and taxidermy, focusing on native wetland species. They will then transform into detectives to solve a mystery using clues like tracks, scat, and other wildlife-themed props, to identify the wetland species involved!

Grade 4/5/6/7/8 – All About Owls – COMING SOON! SPRING 2025

Grade 4 - Life Science: Habitat

  • Learners will investigate a variety of local natural habitats

Grade 5 – Earth and Space Science: Weather

  • Learners will investigate how weather impacts daily life

Grade 6 – Life Science: Diversity of Life

  • Learners will analyse diversity of life in nature and significant relationships within the natural world

Science 7: Environmental Action

  • Learners will investigate factors that affect species adaptation and evolution

Science 8: Climate Change

  • Learners will evaluate oceanographic and other evidence of climate change inclusive of a Mi’kmaw perspective

Grade 7 to Post Secondary – Species at Risk

Science 7: Environmental Action

  • Learners will investigate factors that affect species adaptation and evolution

Science 8: Climate Change

  • Learners will evaluate oceanographic and other evidence of climate change inclusive of a Mi’kmaw perspective

Science 9: Reproduction

  • Identify major shifts in scientific understanding of genetics

Science 10: Sustainability of Ecosystems

  • distinguish between biotic and abiotic factors, determining the impact on the consumers at all trophic levels due to bioaccumulation, variability, and diversity

Biology 11: Maintaining Dynamic Equilibrium I

  • identify and predict the impact of viruses, diseases, and environmental factors on the homeostasis of an organism and propose alternate solutions

Biology 12: Maintaining Dynamic Equilibrium II

  • evaluate the impact of viral, bacterial, genetic, and environmental diseases on an organism’s homeostasis

Learn about species at risk in Nova Scotia and throughout the world and explore what factors impact species populations such as invasive species, genetics, and disease. Investigate the classification of species at risk Federally and Provincially with example species under each category.

Grade 10 to Post Secondary - Careers

Career Development 10: Exploring Career and Education Goals

  • Learners will evaluate factors that can influence education and career goals

Community Based Learning 11: Career and Life Planning

  • Learners will reflect on community based learning experiences in relation to selected career pathways

Co-operative Education 10-12

  • Learners will evaluate potential education options and career pathways

Learn about careers in the Department of Natural Resources and Renewables, focusing on the Shubenacadie Wildlife Park. Education pathways, NS Government interview tips, summer job opportunities, how to apply, and NS Government benefits will be explored.