Digital Offerings
Overview
We offer two different guided digital programs for your K-12 students: Digital History Labs and Live Virtual Tours. Browse our options and book a tour through Explorable Places HERE.
Digital History Labs
In this Digital History Lab (DHL), students work with an expert guide to explore Monticello using digital resources including our 360° virtual tour, primary source documents, images, and objects. Students investigate how historians build knowledge about the past and examine Monticello through multiple lenses. The program encourages active participation, supports historical thinking, and can be customized to fit your curriculum goals and your students’ needs.
Program Length: 45 minutes
Pricing: Free
Availability: Tuesday, Wednesdays, and Thursdays between 8:45 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. (Eastern Time)
Platform: This program is delivered via Zoom.
How to book: Visit Explorable Places to book your program.
During our Digital History Labs, students follow a Monticello guide through a presentation using a variety of resources, including primary sources, objects, and a 360° virtual tour of Monticello.
Archaeology Digital History Lab
In this specialty Digital History Lab, Monticello archaeologists meet virtually with students to explore how archaeology helps us understand the past. Using visual props and real examples from sites at Monticello, they introduce the practice of archaeology and demonstrate how evidence uncovered in the ground shapes our knowledge of life at Monticello. Students will learn foundational archaeological concepts while strengthening their deductive and inference-based reasoning skills. By examining clues left behind in the landscape, they will work to piece together the story of Monticello and consider what this place meant to Indigenous peoples, Thomas Jefferson, and the enslaved community who lived and labored there.
Program Length: 45-minutes
Pricing: Free
Availability: Tuesday, April 14, 2026 at 2:15 p.m. (Eastern Time)
Platform: This program is delivered via Zoom.
How to book: Visit Explorable Places to book your program.
Archaeologists at Monticello study and preserve the plantation's archaeological record, investigating sites that shape our knowledge of Monticello's past.
Live Virtual Tours
On these live virtual tours, a Monticello guide will lead your students in real-time through the first floor of Thomas Jefferson’s mountaintop home. Learn about Thomas Jefferson and his ideas that helped shape a nation, Monticello as an architectural icon and the stories of the free and enslaved people who lived and labored on this plantation. Program content and themes are customizable, and we encourage you to let us know how we can best support your curriculum and students’ needs.
Program Length: 45-60 minutes
Pricing: This one-hour tour is $20 and exclusively uses Zoom to connect. The cost of this program is waived for Title I schools.
Availability: Live Virtual Tours are currently fully booked for the remainder of the school year. Scheduling for the next school year will reopen on September 1, 2026. Educators may consider booking a Digital History Lab, an interactive 45-minute program that explores Monticello through primary sources and our 360° virtual tour.
Platform: This program is delivered via Zoom.
How to book: Visit Explorable Places to book your program.
Email us at [email protected] with any questions.
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