Classroom Program Kits, for use in the classroom, are available when a school program is booked either at the museum or in the classroom. The kit is available on first come, first serve basis for one week either before or after your booked program. There is a $30 deposit, which is refundable if the kit is returned on time and complete without damage or items missing.

A Child's Life Kit
The kit contains a board game designed to teach the students about what it was like to live in early 1900's Nanaimo, both at school and in the home. There are jigsaw puzzles of early Nanaimo photographs, as well as school work sheets taken from 1930's reading and arithmetic text books. There is background information on early Nanaimo education.

Coal Mining Kit
The kit contains information about the major mine disasters, strikes, mining terminology, history of coal mining lamps, and general Nanaimo coal history. There is a board game where students earn wages, pay rent and buy groceries, encounter mine disasters, and acquire children. There are word puzzles and worksheets with accompanying flash cards on mining terminology.