Virtual field trips are $100 per session. We also offer a 5-session package for $400. There is a 35 student cap for each session to ensure quality programming.Registration is now open for the 2020-2021 school year. Virtual field trips will run from October 2020-June 2021.Confirmations will be sent out within 4 weeks of online registration. The offer letter includes the reserved tour date, program description, and deposit due date.Cancellation and Rescheduling: Once confirmed, if you are unable to keep the date you reserved, please email us at education@historysanjose.org as soon as possible to reschedule. Should you choose to cancel your school program, note that your deposit is nonrefundable.Questions? Education Department staff members are happy to answer any questions you may have. Call 408.918.1040 or email education@historysanjose.org.
Duration: 40 minutes
Target Audiences: Grades 3-6
Student Cap: 35 students
Fee: $100 session
Topic(s): Spanish Colonial LIfe in California; San Jose/Local History; Late 18th-Century American History
Description: Transport your class to the first Spanish town of Alta California founded in 1777—El Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe. History San José takes students on an excursion of the oldest house in San José, built-in 1778. Students will explore several aspects of Spanish colonial life—cattle-ranching, cooking, and candle-making—to envision how Spanish settlers adapted to their new normal and changed the landscape of the future state of California.
Duration: 40 minutes
Target Audiences: Grades 4-8
Student Cap: 35 students
Fee: $100 session
Topics: Image/Object Analysis; Primary Sources; Childhood in the American West
Description: History San José guides students as they do “the work” of history by actively inspecting primary sources from History San José’s Collection Center. Students will conduct important research and investigate the mystery behind a 19th-century painting of a boy. Students will formulate questions, identify historical materials, evaluate the data, and report their findings. Through this inquiry-based exercise, they will hone important critical thinking skills and learn that solving the mysteries of the past requires certain procedures and tons of imagination.
Duration: 40 minutes
Target Audiences: Grades 3-6
Student Cap: 35 students
Fee: $100 session
Topic(s): Westward Expansion; Overland Trails; Manifest Destiny
Description: During the mid-1800s, many American settlers moved West in covered wagons. History San José offers students the opportunity to travel as part of an American caravan from Independence, MO to Sacramento, CA. Students will visually analyze photographs and paintings to determine the environmental dynamics settlers faced across the terrain and inspect artifacts settlers carried over the course of their 1,700-mile journey West. By the end of the presentation, students will understand the motivating factors that led people to trek overland and recognize the challenges American settlers faced when traveling westward to California.
Duration: 40 minutes
Target Audiences: Grades 3-6
Student Cap: 35 students
Fee: $100 session
Topic(s): American Farming; Labor History; Second Industrial Revolution
Description: During the second industrial revolution, the Santa Clara Valley became the major canned fruit producer in the country and earned the moniker Valley of Heart’s Delight. History San José will guide students through a family barn and migrant farmworker house, teaching them about how food is grown, packaged, and shipped. Through interactive activities, students will learn how small family farmers used the latest technology and innovations to improve mass food production and create some of the most well recognized canned fruit brands in the 21st century—Del Monte and Sunsweet.
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