Vincennes State Historic Sites Tour
Grades K – 12
Fee: $1.50 per student
Historical characters will guide you through the buildings and sites. Students will discover the early years of Vincennes and Indiana by learning about early education at the Jefferson Academy, beginnings of Indiana law at the Territory Capital Building, and experience the art of printing at the Elihu Stout Print Shop.

Feb. 10, 2012; 9, 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. 
Grades K – 12
Fee: $35 per class
In 1820, a young African-American woman named Polly Strong sued her master to gain her freedom. This interactive program will guide students through her trial and the precedent that it set in terms of slavery in Indiana.
 

Petite Fête
April 12, 2012; 9 a.m. – 2 p.m. (rain date April 27)
Grades 9 – 12 (French Language classes)
Fee: $10 per student
Students will experience the early French culture and language of Vincennes. Language lessons, history presentations and a French lunch are highlights.

A Day in a Life at Fort Knox II
Sept. 20, 21, 2012; 8:30 a.m. – 2 pm.
$5 per student
Grade 8 – 12
Fee: $3.50 per student
Discover the day-to-day life of the men and women at Fort Knox II Military Encampment, ca. 1812 in Vincennes. Students learn about military life, women’s roles, foods, flora and fauna and early surveying. This program covers language arts, history, science and math.

EDUCATIONAL WORKSHOPS — On-site and Outreach*
Historical characters can be requested for outreach programs. Meet historical characters, like Lydia Bacon, an officer’s wife posted at Fort Knox II who kept a detailed journal of her travels from Boston. Or a soldier or militiaman from 1812 telling the stories of daily life of individuals posted at Fort Knox II. Or meet Benjamin Franklin, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, great men who helped to bring science to the American frontier.
 

Science and the Founding Fathers*
Grades 4 – 5
Fee: $3.50 per student
Many of our Founding Fathers were also some of our brightest scientists. This interactive science presentation explores George Washington’s farming innovations, Benjamin Franklin’s electricity experiments and Thomas Jefferson’s natural experiments.

Quills & Printing Presses: Frontier Communication*
Grades 3 – 8
Fee: $3.50 per student
This program exposes students to the evolution of communication through America’s history. Students can write with actual quill pens and use a table top printing press at Elihu Stout’s shop which published the first newspaper in Indiana, the Indiana Gazette.

Ladies & Gentleman of the Indiana Territory*
Grades 8 – 12
Fee: $3.50 per student
Students will learn manners and morals of the various people who settled the Indiana Territory from 1790 to 1820.

Life on the Indiana Frontier*
Grades 4 – 8
Fee: $3.50 per student
This interactive program is an adaptation of the "Day in the Life" event introducing students to everyday life on the frontier through the eyes of a solder, a military wife, a surveyor or a Native American. Students discover the hardships of survival on the Indiana Frontier.

Polly Strong
Grades K – 12
Fee: $25 per class
In 1820, a young slave woman named Polly Strong sued her master to gain her freedom. This interactive program guides students through her trial and the precedent that it set in terms of slavery in Indiana.