Field Trips

Here are some great places to visit for field trips in Calgary:

• Bow Habitat Station
  "Explore through hands-on displays and exhibits about Alberta's fish, wildlife, and water." They have lots of family friendly educational activities. See their website here: bowhabitat.alberta.ca
  
  1440-17A Street SE
  Calgary, Alberta
  Phone: (403) 297-6561
  Email: bow.habitat@gov.ab.ca
  
  
• Butterfield Acres Farm
  Butterfield Acres is an educational farm with lots of attractions and programs.
  They are located in the very north and west part of Calgary - see their location page for a map: www.butterfield​acres.com/​contact-location.htm
  Their home page is here: www.butterfieldacres.com
  
  254077 Rocky Ridge Road
  Calgary, AB
  Phone: (403) 239-0638
  
  
• Calgary Public Library
  They have tons of educational materials that are great for home schoolers, including:
  - free courses, in person.
  - books you can download and read at home.
  - videos on history, science (like Bill Nye), art, math, etc.
  - Digital Library (calgarylibrary.ca/read-learn-and-explore/digital-library)
     - free courses, online - see Gale Courses, LinkedIn Learning.
     - Solaro, The Alberta Study Guides Online
     - National Geographic for Kids, and similar resources.
     - ArtistWorks, for free online music classes.
     - a whole bunch of other great resources.
  - and of course, they have lots of real books you can borrow, too.
  
  Home Page: calgary​library.ca
  
  
• Calgary Zoo, Botanical Garden, & Prehistoric Park
  You can go directly to their school programs page here: www.calgary​zoo.com/​programs/​school-​programs.
  In the past they have had home school programs, but at this time, I don't see any on their site.
  Home Page: www.calgaryzoo.com
  
  1300 Zoo Road NE
  Calgary, AB
  Phone: (403) 232-9300
  
  
• Fish Creek Environmental Learning Centre
  They have regular short "courses."
  www.albertaparks.ca/​parks/​kananaskis/​fish-​creek-pp/​information-​facilities/​special-​facilities/​fish-​creek-​environmental-​learning-​centre/
  Just visiting Fish Creek park is very nice, also.
  
  Located in south Calgary.
  
  
• Fort Calgary
  Fort Calgary has home school days. For more info, see their site:
  www.fortcalgary.com
  
  750 - 9th Avenue SE
  Calgary, AB
  Phone: (403) 290-1875
  Email: info@fortcalgary.com
  
  
• Glenbow Museum
  A pass is highly recommended by several hs'ers who have used them. They have lots of hands-on stuff, and they change these regularly. They don't have home school events, but if you get a group of 10 or more homeschooled children together, you can register for the school programs.
  Website: www.glenbow.org
  
  130 - 9 Avenue S.E.
  Calgary, AB
  Phone: (403) 268-4100
  School Bookings Phone: (403) 26-4110
  Email: info@glenbow.org
  
  
• Hangar Flight Museum
  If your home schooler is intersted in vintage aircraft and aviation history, check out the Hangar Flight Museum (formely the Aero Space Museum).
  
  4629 McCall Way NE
  Calgary, AB.
  (403) 250-3752
  Home Page: www.thehangar​museum.ca
  
  
• Heritage Park
  Heritage Park has regular home schooler days. For all the details including the dates of upcoming programs, go to their Homeschooler Days webpage:
  Homeschooler Days: heritagepark.ca/​homeschooler-days
  Learning Programs: heritagepark.ca/​programs
  
  Home page: www.heritagepark.ca
  1900 Heritage Dr. S.W.
  Calgary, AB
  Phone: (403) 268-8522
  
  
• Nickle Galleries (formerly the Nickle Arts Museum)
  The Nickle Galleries is at the U of C. Admission is free (you just have to pay for parking). The collection is now located in the new library building, called the Taylor Family Digital Library, or TFDL. See their site for information on what is on display now.
  
  Home Page: nickle.ucalgary.ca
  
  2500 University Dr. N.W.
  Calgary, AB
  Phone: (403) 220-7234
  Email: nickle@ucalgary.ca
  
  
• Space Port at the Calgary airport closed permanently, on Dec. 31, 2019.
  
  
• Spruce Meadows
  Home Page: www.sprucemeadows.com
  
  18011 Spruce Meadows Way SW
  Calgary, AB
  Phone: (403) 974-4200
  
  
• Telus Spark Science Centre (formerly the Telus World of Science)
  Check out their Home Education page here: www.sparkscience.ca/​schools/​home-​education
  Home Page: www.sparkscience.ca
  
  220 St. George's Drive NE
  Calgary, AB
  Phone: (403) 817-6800
  
  
• W.P. Puppets
  They do puppet workshops for kids once per month.
  
  Phone: (403) 228-3373
  Home Page: www.wppuppet.com