Homeschool Field Trip Experience Request
This is a request for a field trip. Museum staff will send you a communication/confirmation once your request is processed, normally within 1-3 business days.
Field Trip Experiences
Field Trip Experiences cost $3 per student. Homeschool groups may have one free chaperone for each family/homeschool unit. Additional chaperons cost $3 per person. Programs last one hour. Museum staff select hands-on activities based on group age/grade and group size. Please book two weeks in advance by calling 207.581.4100 or submitting this form.
Do and Discover – Students embark on a super fun mystery hunt through the Museum! Students draw on clues to locate exhibitions and access information on key concepts involving the artifacts and folkways presented within those exhibits. Students must work together to accomplish this task and communicate their interpretations of the exhibitions before proceeding through the hunt. Minimum group size is 10: Maximum group size is 50 (including all adult chaperons and non-participating individuals). This program is great for multi-age learners.
Six Simple Machines – Pulley, Wheel, Inclined Plane, Screw, Wedge, and Lever. Tour of the simple machines in use in the home and on the farm before the advent of electricity. Students use artifacts to demonstrate how simple machines functioned to make life easier in this time period. Minimum group size is 10: Maximum group size is 30 (including all adult chaperons and non-participating individuals).
School Days, School Days, Dear Old Golden Rule Days – Up to 12 scholars (plus, up to 6 adult chaperons and non-participating individuals), go to school in the former Holden South District Schoolhouse and learn what it was like to attend a one-room schoolhouse in 1867. The day includes morning and afternoon lessons, recess, and recitations. Children learn to make ink and write with pen and nib, do slate work, and learn about nineteenth-century manners and morals. Recess includes playing with a collection of historic toys and playing such games as “Buzz, Buzz,” or “Four Corners.”