Mini Kits
Simple Machines Mini Kit (K-12)
Looking for a hands-on way to teach your students about simple machines? Rent our Simple Machines Mini Kit, containing twelve interactive models of simple machines, and guide their exploration. For more info click here.
Fishing Tools & Knots Mini Kit (K-12)
There are so many different ways to catch fish! This kit is designed to show your students examples of some of the lures, ropes, knots, bells, and floats involved in net and line fishing.
$30 for a one week rental (discount available for additional weeks). Please email education@gogcannery.org for information on pricing. For more info click here.
School Programs
The program takes a historical event and dramatizes it for relevant contemporary conversations that can be held in the classroom.
Read our My Monster Cannery story, and use it as a basis to learn social studies, math, science, PE, and art!
Explore our Cannery REcollections exhibit to see what objects are important to our community, then discuss findings with classmates.
Spend a day at Steveston’s national historic sites and let us do the planning! The Gulf of Georgia Cannery and Britannia Shipyards now offer joint bookings for up to four classes (Grades 1-6). Click here for detailed booking instructions, program recommendations, and schedules.
Investigate the ways natural resources can move from local to global in Fishy Business!
Understand the role of salmon as a Cultural Keystone Species for Indigenous Peoples on the West Coast of Canada in Salmon People!
Students investigate how machines work together along a 1930s to 1950s salmon canning line, including a demonstration of the working machines.
Explore the diverse work experiences and social challenges of Cannery workers from around the world in Cannery Stories.
Overview of the historic cannery, including introductory film and full Canning Line tour.