Indiana Experience Field Trip Descriptions
Visit the Indiana Experience at the Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana History Center in Indianapolis and show your students a new way to live history.
Indiana Experience Field Trip Options
Students will engage in a variety of hands-on activities that can be customized to meet your curriculum needs. Choose as many options as the group's schedule will allow. Estimate that each group of 10 students will spend 15 to 20 minutes in each area. Visit the Plan a Field Trip page to make a reservation today!
You Are There
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You Are There 1920: Busted! Prohibition Enforced (through January, 2013) -- Visit the Indianapolis police headquarters on Dec. 9, where officers have just returned to unload the still from Indiana's largest bust to date. Get the scoop about this headline-making raid on a farm near New Bethel from the police officers involved. Find out more about 1920s-era crimes and learn the fate of Indiana's bootleggers. Curriculum materials available here.
Presented by the Wine and Spirits Distributors of Indiana and the Indiana Beverage Alliance - You Are There 1950: Making a Jewish Home (through September 2012) -- Visit the Kaplan family in their Union Street home a year after their resettlement in Indianapolis from a post-World War II displaced persons camp. Join Mrs. Kaplan as she prepares a kosher meal and discover the family's story of tragedy, courage and new beginnings. Learn how Hoosier hospitality helped the Kaplans create a new home in an Indianapolis southside neighborhood. Curriculum materials available here.
Presented by the Alan & Linda Cohen Family Foundation
- You Are There 1955: Ending Polio (open June 5, 2012 through mid-September, 2013) -- Be a part of the action as Eli Lilly and Company employees work to package and ship vials of Jonas Salk's critical polio vaccine to devastated communities nationwide. Interact with assembly line workers and learn how this Indiana company helped end America's polio panic. Curriculum materials coming soon!
Presented by Eli Lilly and Company Foundation
More Indiana Experience Field Trip Options
Destination Indiana
Send students on a time-travel journey through IHS’s vast collections with a Destination Indiana visit. Depending on the group’s size, students may guide their own investigations at individual computer stations or journey through Indiana’s past with a facilitated big-screen presentation. Big-screen options include Welcome to Monument Circle, Explore the Monument, The Statehouse, Circle Theater, Traction Terminal, Glimpses of the African-American Experience in Indiana, Mapping Indiana, Civil War and Eli Lilly and Co.
Presented by Verizon
W. Brooks Fortune History Lab
Take on the role of a conservator and participate in a hands-on paper mending activity in our History Lab, where students will learn how science and history work together in the field of conservation.
INvestigation Stations
Do some detective work with primary sources at our INvestigation Stations. Facilitators will help students discover clues in photographs and documents to solve mysteries of the past.
Other Field Trip Options
Hands-On History Youth Programs
Delve into the Indiana Historical Society collection to find historic items such as explorers' maps, French fur trade journals, Civil War letters, andWorld War II photographs and diaries. This program includes a presentation by William H. Smith Memorial Library staff and a tutorial on using our collection databases to search for items. The 90-minute program is designed for students in grades eight through 12 and includes guided research time in the library. The program fee is $2 per student; no charge for adult chaperones. When combined with an Indiana Experience field trip, the fees are $5 per student; one chaperone is admitted free for every 10 students, and additional adults are $6 per person or $5.50 for seniors. Advance reservations are required.
For elementary student groups a brief presentation in the library is available at no additional charge when combined with admission to the Indiana Experience and a group reservation is made in advance.
Academic Standards
Indiana Experience student group visits are tied to Indiana academic standards for the social studies. Download the Pre-Visit Information Packet for a complete list of standards matches.
