Inside Texas

Help your class see how Texans make public decisions, preserve evidence, and tell the story of their state

This virtual field trip helps a grades 3–5 class understand Texas civic life as more than a three-branches worksheet. Students explore how people debate, lead, judge, preserve records, honor communities, and interpret history in real Austin places.

Stops include the Texas State Capitol, Governor’s Mansion, Supreme Court of Texas, Capitol Visitors Center, Lorenzo de Zavala State Archives and Library, Texas State Cemetery, George Washington Carver Museum, and the Bullock Texas State History Museum. Representation, records, preservation, community memory, and museum storytelling stay concrete.

Built for grades 3–5, with Grade 4 as the reading and listening anchor. Younger classes can focus on “who works here and why it matters”; stronger readers can dig into evidence and interpretation.

At each stop, students explore real places on the map, view local evidence and media, listen to the stop audio, follow along with the transcript if they need support, and discuss how public history is made. Plan roughly 50–75 minutes with discussion, depending on how long you pause for galleries and talk.

Try the free preview of Stop 1 (Texas State Capitol) to see the format with your students. When you are ready for the full trip, purchase the lesson to get an unlock code. After you unlock, you can share a student link for whole-class projection or 1:1 devices. The printable teacher guide, worksheets, and answer key come with the Shopify purchase—you receive them with your order, separate from the online trip.