Field Trips

Program Overview
Experience the American Revolution through cutting-edge augmented reality technology in the American Revolution: The Augmented Exhibition. Using a HistoPad tablet and grade-level Explorer's Log, students investigate Revolutionary people, places, and events while interacting with immersive digital content, authentic artifacts, and hands-on challenges.

A museum educator will provide an exhibit orientation and HistoPad tutorial, before students explore the exhibit at their own pace.

Program Includes
• Admission to American Revolution exhibit
• HistoPads
• Grade-specific Explorer's Log
• Exhibit orientation and HistoPad tutorial
• Time for self-guided exploration

Details
• Audience(s): Grades 4-12
• North Carolina Standard Alignment: 4.H.1; 5.H.1; 7.H.1; 8.H.1; AH.H.1; AH.H.3
• Duration: 90-120 Minutes
• Experience Type: Self-Guided
• Price: $15 per Student

Program Overview
Experience the American Revolution at the intersection of immersive technology and local history. Students begin in the American Revolution: The Augmented Exhibition, using HistoPads and a grade-level Explorer’s Log to investigate Revolutionary people, places, and events at their own pace.

Then, a museum educator will lead a guided tour of the 1774 Rock House. This experience is tailored to each grade level, through age-appropriate investigations and discussion.

Program Includes
• Admission to American Revolution exhibit
• HistoPads
• Grade-specific Explorer's Log
• Exhibit orientation and HistoPad tutorial
• 25-30 minute guided Rock House tour

Details
• Audience(s): Grades 4-12
• Duration: 90-120 Minutes
• Experience Type: Self-Guided and Guided
• Price: $20 per Student

Program Overview
Students explore daily life in eighteenth-century Mecklenburg through observation, hands-on activities, and guided discovery across the historic homesite. The program introduces how families lived, worked, and depended on one another and the natural environment to meet their everyday needs.

Details
• Audience(s): Grades K-2
• North Carolina Standard Alignment: I.1.1; I.1.8; K.H.1; K.G.2; 1.H.1; 1.G.2; 2.H.1; 2.G.1; 2.E.1
• Duration: 120-150 Minutes
• Experience Type: Guided
• Price: $15 per Student

Program Overview
Students explore daily life in eighteenth-century Mecklenburg while investigating how the American Revolution shaped the people, places, and communities of the Carolina Backcountry. Through interactive experiences at the historic homesite, students examine how the Revolution influenced leadership, everyday choices, and life on the home front.

Details
• Audience(s): Grades 3-5
• North Carolina Standard Alignment: I.1.9; I.1.10; 3.H.1; ESS.3.2; 3.E.1; 3.G.1; 4.H.1; 4.E.1; 4.G.2; 5.H.1
• Duration: 120-150 Minutes
• Experience Type: Guided
• Price: $15 per Student

Program Overview
Students embark on a 100+ year journey of Black education in Charlotte, tracing a legacy of resistance from enslavement to the Civil Rights Movement. They’ll begin at the Alexander Homesite’s Log Kitchen, learning how Bet and Jenny, two enslaved people, used oral traditions and African culture as tools of education and resistance. Then, students explore the restored 1920s Siloam School, discovering how communities fought for equal education during segregation and beyond.

Details
• Audience(s): Grades 5-12
• Duration: 60 Minutes
• Experience Type: Guided
• Price: $15 per Student