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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. Or, email us at digital.learning@monticello.org for scheduling requests, questions, and more information.

Digital History Labs

On these FREE, 45-minute digital field trips, a Monticello Guide takes students on a 360° virtual tour of Monticello and presents primary sources such as documents and objects using a PowerPoint presentation. Students will have the opportunity to engage with their guide, ask questions, learn more about the historical process, and deepen their critical thinking skills. Digital Field Trips can be customized to fit your curriculum and students' needs.

Pricing: This 45 minute program is free!

Availability: Digital Field Trips are available Tuesday, Wednesdays, and Thursdays

Email us at digital.learning@monticello.org to schedule your program.

A class of young students look at an image of Monticello guide projected on a screen at the front of the room.
During our Digital History Labs students follow Monticello guide through a presentation using a variety of resources, including primary sources, objects, and a 360° virtual tour of Monticello

Live Virtual Tours

On these hour-long 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.

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: This program can only be booked on Wednesdays and Thursdays between January 1st-February 28th, 2025, and only Thursdays after March 1, 2025.

Email us at digital.learning@monticello.org to schedule your program.

A Monticello guide operates Monticello's Parlor doors while another guide livestreams her using a smartphone.
During Live Virtual Tours students follow a guide live as they walk through the house and grounds

Panoramic Tour of Monticello

Explore Monticello's house and grounds in this 360-degree panoramic tour

360º Tour of Monticello 

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