High School
Self-Guided Tours
Create your own field trip adventure! Self-guided tours give you and your students access to all of the historic areas allowing you to cover a variety of Indiana academic standards, including social studies, language arts, math and science. Students will explore and engage in history bringing the past to life in ways a textbook cannot. Reservations required.
Who: Grades K–12
Dates:
April: Thurs.–Sat.
May-September: Tues.–Sat.
October: Wed.–Sat.
November: 5 & 6, 12 & 13
Times: 9:30 am–2:30 pm
Groups scheduled every 15 minutes.
Length: 3 to 4 hours recommended for a complete experience
Cost: $4.50/student; $8.00/adult chaperone
Teachers and school staff get in free.
Standards: Soc. Studies (2007): K.1.1, 1.1.1, 2.1.2, 3.1.6, 3.1.8, 4.1.2, 4.1.6, 5.3.11, 6.1.21, 7.4.2, 8.1.28, WG.4.3, USH.1.2; Science: K.4.2, 1.4.3, 2.3.6, 2.4.1, 3.1.6, 4.4.8, 5.1.7, 6.4.13, 7.4.10, 8.1.1, 8.4.3; Language Arts: K.7.1, 1.7.3, 2.7.4, 3.7.1, 3.7.15, 4.7.1, 4.7.16, 5.7.1, 6.7.2, 7.7.1, 8.7.8, 11.7.12
Follow the North Star: Underground Railroad Experience
(Grades 8–12)
Step into the shoes of a fugitive slave on the road to freedom. Travel as a group and search for safety along the way, but watch our for slave hunters motivated by financial rewards. This glimpse into our shared past will jolt and affect you in ways that reading a book or watching a movie about this painful part of America's history cannot.
Cost: $8/student (One adult free with every 14 students; $8/additional adult)
Deposit is required.
Dates: November 4, 10 & 11, 17, 19, 2009; 2010 March, April
Times: 9 am–1:30 pm
Length: 1 1/2 hours
Standards: Soc. Studies 8.1.16, 8.1.28, USH.1.2, USH.1.3
Bring your family and friends to the evening public programs of Follow the North Star