The Revolutionary War
Fort Ticonderoga | Lake Champlain Maritime Museum | Shelburne Museum | Ethan Allen Homestead | Mount Independence | Rokeby Museum
Fort Ticonderoga-National Historic Landmark
Scavenger Hunt (adapted for ELLs) or Scavenger Hunt (2009)
Phone number: 1-518-585-2821; email: nancy@fort-ticonderoga.org
Student rate: $5; chaperones (1 per 5 students) free
Travel time from Saint Michael's College: about 2 hours
Directions: Rte 7 to Crown Point, across the bridge to NY state
offerings: historical narration, Fife & Drum, Artillery & Musket demos, period clothing; self-guided museum tour, King's Garden (on Lake Champlain)
Lake Champlain Maritime Museum
Phone number: 1-802-475-2022
Students, 5-17: $6; (http://www.lcmm.org/museum_info/visit.htm)
Travel time from Saint Michael's College: about 1 hour
Directions: Rte 7 to Vergennes > right on Panton Rd. (= 22A); follow signs to Basin Harbor > right on Basin Harbor Rd; stay on road until Maritime Museum
Offerings: slide show with historical narration, Key to Liberty Building with movie, scenes, descriptions of major events/battles of the American Revolution in the Champlain Valley; replica of the revolution gunboat Philadelphia
Education: Passport to Learning (interactive workshops for students K-8), after Sept. 14 2009
Phone number: 865-4556
Group discount at 28 students: $4
Program A: 1hr 15 min; group tour to homestead (guide/driver free)
Program B: 15-min. multimedia video show about Ethan Allen
Program C: Museum galleries
Phone number: 1-802-948-2000
Student rate: $5; discount possible
Offerings: "talking statues"; 5 marked walking trails; film about encampments; computerized program showing trail to Albany
Slavery and the Underground Railroad
Directions: Rte. 7 to Charlotte
© 2006 Christine Bauer-Ramazani; last accessed: December 19, 2012