Student Field Trips & Resources
Time Travel at Mount Harmon
one of Maryland’s most beautiful historic sites!
Field Trip Program Facts
Cost
$8 per student and chaperone
- Fulfills curriculum requirements.
- Picnic lunches welcome.
- Suggested time frame 4 hours
- Programs can be customized to suit curriculum and scheduling needs
- Specializing in Elementary School Student Groups
- Home School Groups & Family Groups Welcome
- Parking, check in, and gift shop at visitor center
- Gift shop open during lunch with fun and educational items
Program Objectives
To enable students to learn first hand about an 18th century plantation in a pristine Tidewater setting little changed by time.
To instill in young people an understanding of our nation’s colonial history, and how individuals and societies have changed over time.
To support classroom units on early American, Colonial, and Tidewater History, with engaging activities that deepen classroom objectives.
To instill an appreciation and understanding of the Chesapeake Bay and it’s historic role in agriculture, trade, and commerce.
To teach the importance of understanding and preserving the past and historic sites like Mount Harmon; and to make these lessons current to students today.
Enhanced, evolving living history campus at Mount Harmon
Mount Harmon continues to expand the site’s living history campus and interpretation with reconstructed smoke house, tobacco barn, slave quarters, and interpretive panels to bring plantation and colonial history to life.
Sample Field Trip Activities
- Plantation Walking Tour or Manor House Tour
- Hands-on Colonial Crafts
- Hearth-Cooking demonstration in Colonial Kitchen
- Guided Nature Walk
- Colonial Life: Clothes, School & Trades
- Spinning & Weaving Demonstration
- Colonial Games
Sample Field Trip Activity Schedule
- Activity 1 - Manor House or Plantation Walking Tour
- Activity 2 - Hands on Colonial Craft
- Activity 3 - Hearth Cooking Demo in Colonial Kitchen
- Activity 4 - Guided Nature Walk
To schedule your field trip e-mail us at info@mountharmon.org
or call Mount Harmon at 410-275-8819
- Many thanks for following our leave no trace guidelines.
- Student activities may be photographed for promotional purposes.
- Participants in Mount Harmon field trips give their permission for photos to be used for promotional purposes.
- We look forward to welcoming you to time travel at Mount Harmon!
