What Field trips did you go on when you were in school?

[RedAngie]

In Philadelphia:
Franklin Institute Science Museum/Fels Planetarium (remember the giant walk-thru beating heart?)
Independence Hall/Liberty Bell/Betsy Ross House, etc.
U.S. Mint
Zoo
Natural History Museum

Other Pennsylvania:
Willow Grove Park (old amusement park, closed sometime in the late 70's, site is now a shopping mall)
Lancaster/Amish areas
Hershey Park

New Jersey:
State Capitol and Museum, got to meet the governor at the time, Brendan Byrne
Clementon Amusement Park
Batsto historic village
Brigantine National Wildlife Refuge
Great Adventure (I don't think it was a Six Flags park at the time)

New York:
United Nations
World Trade Center/Rockefeller Center

Went to Madrid with the Spanish Club junior year of high school during spring break

Two or three of the above were with the Girl Scouts, not a school trip per se, although most of the scouts were from the same school

 

[RedAngie]

Edited to add: I know this sounds really strange but when I was in elementary school the nuns lived in a convent on school property. One day they took us over to the convent as an outing for us to see how they lived. I remember they had “habits” that the girls could try on for dress up. I can remember like it was yesterday. They had the best homemade bread we all made together.

My parish had a convent right next to the school. It was remodeled about 1970. Parish members were welcome to tour the convent both before and after the remodel. It was quite an improvement. Other than that, the convent was pretty much off-limits.

 

[Professor_Cookie]

Hershey Park is one of my dream places to visit. I have such a strong support of Hershey even though I mostly work with European and artisan America chocolate, because Milton Hershey made it affordable for the average person.

(Edit)- also Dollywood, and not just because I watched Best Little Whorehouse in Texas for the first time when Burt Reynolds died.

 

[Sabeking]

My parish had a convent right next to the school. It was remodeled about 1970. Parish members were welcome to tour the convent both before and after the remodel. It was quite an improvement. Other than that, the convent was pretty much off-limits.

Funny you mention it being off limits because I remember that it was a really big deal that they let us come over. It’s like being a kid and finding out the teachers actually don’t live in the classroom! When they would go in and out we would all crane our necks to try and see inside this mysterious place! It was pretty much.....just a house. The boys were not allowed in and they acted so funny when we came back, trying to pry us for information!! Lol!

 

[Eve & Wall-e]

Elementary School:
- Zoo
- Aquarium
- Beach (marine life)
- Science Museum
- Boat tour on the bay
- State Capital Building
- Opera (6th grade)
- Overnight Camp for five nights (6th grade)

 

[jmenjes]

Only two I can remember: the Ringling Bros. circus on Miami Beach, and to Shark Valley in the Everglades.

 

[disykat]

I grew up in the 60s/70s. Putting that since maybe this is an age thing. In grade school, we were close to the county library and would walk there on occasion. That is literally the only school field trip I remember until ones associated with extra curriculars in high school.

 

[GreatLakes]

We went to local nature centers, the zoo, the theater, and some historic farms. If there were others I have forgotten them.

 

[LovesTimone]

Wow I really had to think about this one...

Ok here we go.

Kennedy Space Center - about 6 times from 5 or 6th grade to graduation.

Lowry Park - several times in elementary school

Gatorland - once in elementary school, and then again in the 7th or 8th grade.

Busch Gardens - in 6th grade

Train trip up near Mount Dora, in Middle school

Cypress Gardens ( now Legoland) - 5th thru 8 grade every year

State Fair in Middle School - 3 years in a row

Local museums, every year 1st thru 12th

A couple of plays at the local theater, middle school and high school

Theater production over in Tampa... 9th grade... I don't remember the name of the play... but I do remember is was so boring...and some of the boys went to sleep.

Public Library - In elementary school and then again in middle school - which now seems strange but our library at school was very small... and they taught us how to use the dewey decimal system, old school style. WOW I am showing my age....

Local tour of orange groves, packing and processing plants.. elementary school - We got to pick a few oranges and juice them...and drink fresh juice so good

Sun and Fun - airshow

Strawberry festival - in 6th grade

Strawberry picking - with picnic lunch and we had strawberry shortcake and strawberry ice cream.. and we all got a pint of berries to take home... in 4th grade, our teacher's family owned a farm and we got to go visit it.

St Augustine, 10th and 12th grade

Tallahassee to visit the capital

Suwannee river national park to a re-enactment of the early settler's and American Indian settlements.

 

[MrsDuck]

The Zoo
Publix
Fire Station
Factory but I don't remember what it produced
Library/Ice Cream parlor
Blizzard Beach
La Nouba

 

[Lilacs4Me]

I can't remember the exact years for some, but -

1st Grade - Detroit Zoo. For all of you Michigan folks - this is kind of crazy...our bus driver took 10 Mile from the Detroit/Livonia area to Royal Oak, and as we traveled we could look down and see I-696 being constructed!!
Elementary/Middle School:
Greenfield Village/Henry Ford Museum
Detroit Science Center
Detroit Historical Museum
Detroit Institute of Art
Maybury Farms
Domino Farms
Greenmead Historical Village
Various nature-ish type places
Horseback riding that used to be at a farm at the corner of Beck and I think 11 Mile if anyone knows that area (Northville, I think? Maybe Novi). Now it's a bunch of condos and shipping strips!
Boblo Island
Cedar Point
Frankenmuth
Crossroads Village and Huckleberry Railroad

High School -
Toronto to see Phantom of the Opera
Cedar Point
Michigan State Capitol

 

[cabanafrau]

I can't remember the exact years for some, but -

1st Grade - Detroit Zoo. For all of you Michigan folks - this is kind of crazy...our bus driver took 10 Mile from the Detroit/Livonia area to Royal Oak, and as we traveled we could look down and see I-696 being constructed!!
Elementary/Middle School:
Greenfield Village/Henry Ford Museum
Detroit Science Center
Detroit Historical Museum
Detroit Institute of Art
Maybury Farms
Domino Farms
Greenmead Historical Village
Various nature-ish type places
Horseback riding that used to be at a farm at the corner of Beck and I think 11 Mile if anyone knows that area (Northville, I think? Maybe Novi). Now it's a bunch of condos and shipping strips!
Boblo Island
Cedar Point
Frankenmuth
Crossroads Village and Huckleberry Railroad

High School -
Toronto to see Phantom of the Opera
Cedar Point
Michigan State Capitol

Remove Maybury, Boblo, Greenmead, horseback riding and Dominos and you've pretty much nailed my school field trips. My favorite was always Henry Ford/Greenfield Village.

As far as convents, growing up we lived down the street from a Catholic parish with a convent. I remember trick or treating there when I was about 4 or 5 and walking away confused and asking where was the Flying Nun?

 

[BrianL]

I can't remember them all, but these were common:

The zoo
The museum/planetarium
A big park with a playground and exercise trail - every year on like the second to last day of class, the entire school went.
The Wonder Bread bakery - they gave us bread and snack cakes too!
The Space Center in Huntsville - the only out-of-town one.
A place where you dig in the mud for fossils
My class once won a fun trip for pizza and then the local "Putt-Putt" place by raising a ton of money in pennies - this was like the only non-educational one I can remember.

 

[Floridaman999]

The only ones I remember is going to the Neil Armstrong Space Museum in Wapakoneta, Ohio and the Air Force Museum at Wright Patterson Air Force Base. Both of those experiences started me off on my lifelong love of flying and aviation.

 

[Gumbo4x4]

STL Science Center
The Arch
Onondaga Cave
Theatre to see Ghandi
Several more I don’t recall

Oh, and my German class did an A-B Brewery tour LOL

 

[BlueStarryHat]

I grew up in the 60s/70s. Putting that since maybe this is an age thing. In grade school, we were close to the county library and would walk there on occasion. That is literally the only school field trip I remember until ones associated with extra curriculars in high school.

We used to have the bookmobile stop out front of our school, because we didn't get a neighborhood library until the late 70s. We would all line up by class and eagerly await our turn to climb aboard and pick out a book. I *loved* the bookmobile!

 

[Shanna-like-Banana]

In 3rd grade we were taken to the dump to see the new recycling center which entailed driving the school bus in a loop around the dump

In 4th or 5th grade, we went to a mall and those of us in the theatre group put on a Christmas play, on a weekday, in the morning, there was nobody there

In middle school, we went to a nature preserve to pick up trash

 

[Suger Mag]

Boston Aquarium ( New England)
Old Sturbridge Village
Laughing Brook Nature Center
Nature's Classroom (overnight 2 or 3 days usually)
Cape Cod

Mt Tom Alpine Slide for Mountain Day in high school

 

[NYCgrrl]

From elementary to junior high school:

The Statue of Liberty- once in 6th grade and the only time I ever made it to the top, LOL
Mystic Seaport
CBS to be part of a testing panel
Hayden Planetarium
Sleepy Hollow
various museums
42nd St Library
UN
Morris-Jumel House (of course G. Washington slept there)
American Shakespeare Festival
B'way plays
trips to DC for scholastic conferences and competitions
Bronx Zoo and Botanical Gardens

That's all I can recall.

 

[Lilacs4Me]

Remove Maybury, Boblo, Greenmead, horseback riding and Dominos and you've pretty much nailed my school field trips. My favorite was always Henry Ford/Greenfield Village.

As far as convents, growing up we lived down the street from a Catholic parish with a convent. I remember trick or treating there when I was about 4 or 5 and walking away confused and asking where was the Flying Nun?

My 6th grade teacher was a nun whose convent was across the street from our school/church! We only had 11 kids in my 6th grade class, so she would walk us over to the convent occasionally and have us watch a movie in their living room, or do a lesson in their pretty flower garden. I remember Sister M would serve us lemonade and cookies while we watched the movies