Classroom Programs

Our award-winning classroom programs include engaging instruments, unique artifacts, and interactive learning for students in Grades K to 12. 

From Hearing and Sound to Making Instruments to Instrument Evolution, our classroom programs and guided tours offer a variety of grade-appropriate curriculum connections while fostering an engaging hands-on, minds-on and ears-on learning environment.

Explore our diverse range of experiences and download our CBE Master Agreement for field trips to Studio Bell. Classroom programs at Studio Bell are available Monday to Friday.

Kindergarten to Grade 2

• Patterns of Sound

  Location: NMC Classrooms
  Duration: 60 minutes

  Description: Pitch, rhythm, and pulse—everything about music can be explained with patterns. Using technology, musical instruments, and physical movements, we will explore all of the amazing intersections between music and patterns.

• Canada Music Nation

  Location: NMC Classrooms
  Duration: 60 minutes

  Description: Canada is made up of a mosaic of cultures. Our Canada Music Nation program explores the instruments, music, and traditions that form the cultural fabric of our country.

Grades 3 to 6

• Hearing and Sound

  Location: NMC Classrooms
  Duration: 60 minutes

  Description: Get a close-up look at struck, plucked, air, and electronic instruments. Together, we will apply the concepts of pitch, volume, and timbre to the art of making music. Choose from a wide variety of musical instruments that help bring the hearing and sound curriculum to life!

• Words to Song

  Location: NMC Classrooms
  Duration: 60 minutes

  Description: From harmony to rhythm to structure, all music is built from patterns. Students will explore how to make patterns out of words, using syllables, repetition, and rhyme. Students will then learn to recognize patterns from their favourite songs and use those patterns as a springboard for creation. This session is part composition workshop, part sing-along, and all fun!

• Making Instruments

  Making Instruments

  Location: NMC Classrooms
  Duration: 60 minutes

  Description: Explore the concepts of vibration, resonance, frequency and timbre through this interactive sound workshop using hands-on instrument building and technology.

Grades 7 to 12

• Deep Dive into Song

  Location: NMC Classrooms
  Duration: 60 minutes

  Description: Chorus, verse, bridge, hook. We’ll take a deep dive into song structure, conventions and lyrics, and look at how to use persuasive writing to craft a great song you can’t get out of your head.

• Instrument Evolution - Piano

  Location: NMC Classrooms
  Duration: 60 minutes

  Description: Pianos are amazing musical machines, but where did they evolve from? Looking at the design and listening to the sounds, take this hands-on opportunity to try some of the keyboard instruments in our collection that led to the modern grand piano.

• Instrument Evolution - Winds

  Location: NMC Classrooms
  Duration: 60 minutes

  Description: From the earliest primitive flute to the modern-day saxophone, this program takes students on a historic journey through the world of wind instruments. Using hands-on activities, Instrument Evolution: Winds explores how advances in technology, materials, evolving ensembles, and more have helped to create the instruments that are now staples of the modern wind band.