Notice — we are not providing group programing for the 2020 season. Groups are still welcome to book a visit and explore the site.
The Joggins Fossil Institute invites teachers and their students to explore palaeontology, geology, biology and cultural history at a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
School tours and adventure programs are hands-on, incorporate visual, auditory and kinetic learning styles and address Nova Scotia Department of Education curriculum outcomes.
School tours
A guided interpretive gallery tour (30 minutes) plus guided beach tour (30 minutes) is $8.50/student.
Adventure programs
- Teachers, customize your class visit by adding these adventure programs to your school tours.
- Adventure programs are 30 to 45 minutes in length.
Daycare/elementary
- Scavenger hunts
- $1/student
- Fossil excavations
- $5/student
- Fossil casting/painting
- $5/student
Junior/senior high
- Geological timeline
- $20/session (maximum 20 students)
- Natural selection game
- $20/session (maximum 10 students)
- CSI: Joggins
- $30/session (maximum 10 students)
University/college
- Quadrat activity
- $70/session (maximum 20 students)
- Stratigraphic column
- $50/session (maximum 20 students)