In this class students gain hands-on experience and insight into Utah’s rich history. Each week the students go on a field trip to an iconic location in the state’s history to learn about the people and events that helped shaped the State of Utah including the Native Americans, pioneers, explorers, immigrants, and more. The class integrates cross-curricular skills including English language arts, geography, and science. The field trips include activities and games to provide the students with a fun, interactive experience. The classes and field trips help students achieve Utah Education Network Social Studies standards for grades 4 and 7. However, students at other grade levels are welcome to participate.

This course combines multiple field trip tours that can also be scheduled individually for families or small groups. If the course does not fit your schedule, or you are not interested in the complete course, please contact us to schedule field trip tours for you on your schedule. You can learn more about individual field trips on our Field Trip Tours page.

Utah History Field Trip Course Outline

Week 1 – Antelope Island
  • Native Americans and their connections to the land
  • Explorers and finding places to live
  • Ranching in a new territory
Week 2 – This is the Place Monument and Plaza
  • Explorers and Trappers in the territory
  • Donner Party passing through
  • Mormon Pioneers settling Deseret
Week 3 – Ensign Peak
  • Settling Utah and building a society
Week 4 – Territorial State House in Fillmore
  • Deseret and Utah Territories
  • Utah’s architectural heritage
Week 5 – Capitol Hill and the Utah State Capitol
  • Utah’s connection to the Civil War
  • The Mormon Battalion and Utah’s connection to the California gold rush
  • Women’s impact on Utah
Week 6 – Golden Spike National Historic Site (Promontory)
  • Connecting the country with the train and bringing the world to Utah
Week 7 – Influence of Immigrants to Utah (walking tour in downtown Salt Lake City)
  • Learn about immigrants come to Utah to work in the mines and on the railroads in the late 1800s and early 1900s
  • Visit the places these communities called home in Salt Lake City (Chinatown, Japantown, Little Italy, Greektown)
Week 8 – Historic Houses of Worship in Downtown Salt Lake City
  • Explore the diversity in religious beliefs in Utah by visiting historic churches and synagogues in downtown Salt Lake City
Week 9 – Topaz Internment Camp and Fort Deseret (Delta)
  • WWII in Utah and the detainment of Japanese Americans
  • The Indian Wars

Please note that access to venues and activities at some field trip destinations are subject to change depending on availability and other factors including location policies.

How It Works

Each week of this course will be on-location field trips, lasting from 2-5 hours (including travel time to and from the locations). In order to help parents who may have more than one child at home, we will rent a vehicle for the group to travel together. There will be a central meeting point, and as a rented vehicle, it will have the highest level of insurance coverage. In addition to the teacher, we will ask for one parent volunteer for each field trip to accompany the group as a chaperone. That chaperone’s field trip expenses will be covered by us.

If parents prefer, they may take their children directly to the field trip destination to join the group there. We will not delay the start of instruction or activities to wait for late arrivals. Also, on three field trips (Antelope Island, Golden Spike NHS, and Delta), there will be multiple stops or sites that we travel to during the field trip. This means students will need to ride with the group during these commutes. If a parent chooses to bring their child to join the group on site, it does not mean that siblings or parents may join the group during the field trip. Parents who choose to drive their students will need to find some other way to occupy themselves and their other children during the field trip.

Date and Time

Friday mornings, beginning March 12, 2021. Times will vary depending on the destination of the week. We will skip Friday April 2, 2021, as that is Easter weekend and most schools will have some sort of break that weekend.

A minimum of five students is needed for the course to be held as scheduled. There will be a maximum of eight students in each course.

When this class is filled, a second class can be scheduled for a different day of the week also beginning around the same time in March.

Price and Payment

  • $230 per student (students taking shared transportation on field trips)
  • $200 per student (students who meet the group at the field trip destinations)

The price includes admission where applicable, transportation as noted, and necessary supplies for field trip activities, which includes the occasional cultural snack.

Payment can be made through PayPal or Venmo. A nonrefundable* $50 deposit must be made to secure a student’s spot in the class. Full payment must be made before the first class, or the spot may be forfeited to another student.

*The deposit will be fully refunded if fewer than five students register for the course.

Liability Release

By booking this field trip tour with Adventure Patches you acknowledge that you assume all risks associated with participating in all activities associated with this field trip tour including but not limited to, personal injury to yourself and other tour participants who are part of your booking and damage to personal belongings. Adventure Patches is not liable for injury or damage of participants and their belongings. In booking this tour, you indicate that you are accountable to follow the rules and regulations of the field trip destination(s).

Image Release

Additionally, by booking this tour, you hereby grant permission to Adventure Patches the rights of your image and the image of those in your booking party, in video or still, and of the likeness and sound of your voice as recorded on audio or video tape as captured and recorded during the field trip tour. You understand that your image and the images of those in your booking party may be edited, copied, exhibited, published, or distributed and you waive the right to inspect or approve the finished product wherein your likeness appears. Additionally, you waive any right to royalties or other compensation arising or related to in the use of your image or recording.