WHITEWATER CANAL | Water Wheels and Canal Boat
FALL 2021 – SUMMER 2022
SCHOOL GROUP TOURS K-Grade 12 Fee: Admission is FREE for pre-registered, accredited schools or homeschool groups of 10 or more K-12 students. Free admission includes teachers and bus drivers, plus one additional adult chaperone per every five students. Additional chaperones pay the group admission rate of $6/person. Contact site for non-Indiana student rate. Pre-registration required at least two weeks in advance. Available April and May 2022! Teachers who register their students for an onsite visit will receive a self-guided tour packet. This packet will allow teachers and chaperones to guide their students along the site’s historic canal with a focus on the locks, canal boat and aqueduct. Learn about the history and need for the Whitewater Canal, as well as the science and engineering behind its construction. Indiana Academic Standards
CONNECT CONNECT programs allow you to explore one of our 11 locations across the state in the comfort of your classroom or home with a free, 30-minute live virtual broadcast in replace of a fieldtrip. See all CONNECT programs across the state.
UNDERSTANDING THE PURPOSE OF CANALS Grades 3 – 12 2021 dates: Dec. 14 2022 dates: Jan. 11, Feb. 8, March 8 10:30 - 11 a.m. Pre-registration is required at least one week in advance. The use of canals in the early 19th-century was important to the growth of the United States. Built between 1836 and 1847, the Whitewater Canal was meant to bring Indiana’s goods and produce to a wider audience. Students will learn how the canal was engineered using locks and an aqueduct bridge to cross the hilly terrain of southeastern Indiana. Indiana Academic Standards
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