Students
National History Day Program
National History Day encourages students to explore local, state, national, and world history. After selecting a historical topic that relates to an annual theme, students conduct extensive research by using libraries, archives, museums, and oral history interviews. They analyze and interpret their findings, draw conclusions about their topics' significance in history, and create final projects that present their work. These projects can be entered into a series of competitions, from the local to the national level, where they are evaluated by professional historians and educators.
Fort Ticonderoga coordinates North Country History Day, serving students in Clinton, Essex, Franklin, and Warren counties in New York State. The North Country History Day Regional Contest will be held on Saturday, March 10, 2012, in the Deborah Clarke Mars Education Center at Fort Ticonderoga.The theme for the 2011-12 school year is "Revolution, Reaction, Reform in History". For more information. . .
Field Trips
Fort Ticonderoga opens for general self-guided field trips beginning May 18, 2012. The cost is $6 per student with one chaperone admitted free for every five students. Additional chaperones pay $12 each. To make a reservation for a self-guided field trip or for a special on-site program listed below, please call Nancy LaVallie, Group Tour Coordinator at (518) 585-2821 ext. 221 or email
The Artist's Eye: Geography, Art, and History
April 19 - October 19, 2012
Your students can participate in a program focused on developing observation and critical analysis skills while learning about the region's history and geography. "The Artist's Eye: Geography, Art and History" school program utilizes the works of art in the special exhibition, "The art of War: Ticonderoga as Experienced through the Eyes of America's Great Artists."
The program is open by reservation for school groups on Thursdays and Fridays April 19th through October 19th. Admission for the program is $9 per student with one chaperone free for every five students. Additional chaperones pay $12 each.
"To Act as One United Body"
In the Steps of the Continental Soldiers
Spring 2012
In this program students will get to experience the basics of being a soldier fighting for the Continental army. Students and chaperones alike work together to make their own platoon of soldiers, learning the teamwork and discipline necessary to become a unit just as soldiers did during the American Revolution. The program includes a musket demonstration and explanation of tactics using formations the students practice. Students will rest and learn about how soldiers slept and ate under the cover of tents and brush huts. The noise and confusion of battle is demonstrated for students along with the motivation of the soldiers who lived and fought at Fort Ticonderoga on the same ground students walk.
The soldiers' experience comes to life as students experience key aspects of the American Revolution. This program provides a strong cooperative activity that brings history to life for students and chaperones alike.
The program is open by reservation for school groups weekdays through October 20th. Admission for the program is $9 per student with one chaperone free for every 5 students. Additional chaperones pay $12 each.
Post-Visit Activity for "To Act as One United Body"