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

[bcla]

Don't remember all the years, but here goes......

This is all in and around Northern California where I grew up. There might be others that I don't specifically remember, and I don't necessarily remember which grade. Not all were necessarily educational, so my definition of "field trip" is any trip away from school that isn't something like a debating event or competition.

In elementary school:
Lindsey Wildlife Museum, Walnut Creek, CA.
Marine World Africa USA (the original in Redwood City, CA) - twice and once was 6th grade.
Naval Air Station Alameda - 5th grade.
Point Pinole Regional Shoreline.
Chevron Rod and Gun Club in Richmond, CA. It's a Chevron employee recreation facility complete with a gym, tennis courts, bowling alley, etc. Obviously they didn't allow us kids to go trap shooting. School groups were allowed with an invitation by a employee sponsor.

Jr. high school:
All I remember is that we got to go to see A Midsummer's Night's Dream at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. We read the play in English class.
Also Chevron Rod and Gun Club again, but a larger group.

High school:
Every year honor students were allowed a day off and we went to Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk. Not terribly educational but it was supposed to be a reward.
"Physics Day" at Great America theme park in Santa Clara, CA. This was post-Marriott but pre-Paramount. At least at our school only current students in college prep physics could attend. The best part was getting passes (supposedly 5 per participant) that allowed riding again without getting back in line. This really ticked off a lot of the general visitors who didn't have access to those passes. I heard in future years they only did it on a day closed to the general public.
Again - Chevron Rod and Gun Club again for senior honor students. For that trip it was pretty big.

 

[Funfire240]

8th grade our big trip was Cedar Point.
High School we went to Toronto and Canada's Wonderland one day. Trips also included Chicago for a band/choir competition and amusement park (can't remember which one) and then one year we went to King's Island. (Schools were in Northwest Ohio)

 

[Kellykins1218]

Akron Zoo
Cleveland Zoo
Symphony & Ballet at EJ Thomas
Cleveland Natural History Museum
Pro Football Hall of Fame
Aquarium
Cleveland Airport & TWA...sat in plane, had snacks, taxied around airport (also took RTA train from airport to train station where buses were parked)
Stan Hywet Hall (at least 6 times)
Potato chip factory
Reiter Dairy
Akron Beacon Journal
Nature Center
Akron Civic Theater
NASA
Grad Night at Geauga Lake
Hale Farm & Village

 

[PrincessShmoo]

Only one I remember (and it was done multiple times).

In upper elementary grades and junior high (middle school) the day before "The Nutcracker" ballet opened for the Christmas season (in San Francisco), all the area kids in those grades were taken to the final dress rehearsal.

 

[here757]

Jamestown, Yorktown, colonial Williamsburg

 

[MrsCobraBubbles]

The same ones my kids go on. Kindergarten visits the pumpkin farm and the zoo. First grade visits the Aviary. Second goes to the football stadium. Third visits Phipps Conservatory. Fourth goes to the science center. Fifth used to go to Niagara Falls, but now they do a little tour of the city. Sixth grade goes to Washington D.C.

 

[eileenjez]

We never had field trips when I was in private school but the one year I was in public school I went to the San Fernando Mission. We were studying California history and of course the missions were a major topic. same year but different school we went to the Shrine Auditorium in LA for a performance of Hansel and Gretel.

 

[Julie's Haircut]

Some that I remember:

West Point (U.S. Military Academy)
Zoo
Historic sites in Philly
Franklin Institute/Fels Planatarium
Aberdeen Proving Grounds

In 1974, our class went to see the 1968 film version of Romeo and Juliet when we were studying the play in English class

 

[monorailsilver]

The ones I can remember:

Audubon in Westport/Norwalk
Sturbridge Village in Mass
Peabody museum in New Haven
Planetarium at one of the middle schools (then junior high)in my home town (just in elementary we went there)
Riverside for 9th grade (it was 7th, 8th and 9th grade), aka Sox flags New England
Boston in 9th grade for the day (that was FUN)
Senior year to Frank Davis resort which I live closer to nw then where I grew up
Williamsburg in 8th grade but that was just a bus load of kids, again fun!
Pequonick river in 6th grade, one of our teachers loved that place so they made it fun with learning. One kid fell inches stream.

I can’t recall any more.

Oh I just remembered, in K we went to the town hall and at that time the police headquarters were there so we all got fingerprinted and were put in jail. And we went to the grocery store, that was across from in in Trumbull, CT and toured the meat area.

 

[barkley]

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!

LOVED the bookmobile-it was a godsend for those of us who didn't have libraries near us.

Don't remember all the years, but here goes......

This is all in and around Northern California where I grew up. There might be others that I don't specifically remember, and I don't necessarily remember which grade. Not all were necessarily educational, so my definition of "field trip" is any trip away from school that isn't something like a debating event or competition.

In elementary school:
Lindsey Wildlife Museum, Walnut Creek, CA.
Marine World Africa USA (the original in Redwood City, CA) - twice and once was 6th grade.
Naval Air Station Alameda - 5th grade.
Point Pinole Regional Shoreline.
Chevron Rod and Gun Club in Richmond, CA. It's a Chevron employee recreation facility complete with a gym, tennis courts, bowling alley, etc. Obviously they didn't allow us kids to go trap shooting. School groups were allowed with an invitation by a employee sponsor.

Jr. high school:
All I remember is that we got to go to see A Midsummer's Night's Dream at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. We read the play in English class.
Also Chevron Rod and Gun Club again, but a larger group.

High school:
Every year honor students were allowed a day off and we went to Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk. Not terribly educational but it was supposed to be a reward.
"Physics Day" at Great America theme park in Santa Clara, CA. This was post-Marriott but pre-Paramount. At least at our school only current students in college prep physics could attend. The best part was getting passes (supposedly 5 per participant) that allowed riding again without getting back in line. This really ticked off a lot of the general visitors who didn't have access to those passes. I heard in future years they only did it on a day closed to the general public.
Again - Chevron Rod and Gun Club again for senior honor students. For that trip it was pretty big.

interesting-mine is northern california as well but we only share one in common (ACT for plays)-

elementary:
stornetta's dairy
san francisco zoo
old bale mill
sutter's fort
exploratorium
the junior high our entire elementary school was districted to attend (time honored tradition of each 6th grade class spring quarter)

junior high:
sun valley mall (for ice skating)
ACT

(there were some that individual clubs did to other places)

high school:
golden gate theatre san francisco to see original touring company of 'the wiz' (choir class)

STAR WARS-san francisco
don't ask me how he managed to get it past the school but a bunch of us argued to the teacher of our 'current events' class that star wars was going to be looked back upon by future generations as one of THE iconic cultural events of the late 70's. so despite pretty much everyone in the class already having seen it multiple times our teacher got the school to pay for a bus to san francisco (had left any nearby theatres to us) for us to catch a matinee of star wars (school even popped for a soda and popcorn).

 

[10MoreMinutes]

In elementary school (central Florida): Historic St. Augustine, Orlando Science Center, somewhere (Orlando Civic Center? I don't remember) to see The Nutcracker, and we did the Mudwalk in 5th grade. I'm sure there were others (I have very vague memories of a zoo field trip, for example), but I don't remember them.

In middle school (central Florida), the only one I can remember clearly is Sea World with my 8th grade advanced science class, but I'm sure there were others.

In high school (south Georgia), we toured the local courthouse for Government Day (junior year), and my advanced US History class went to Savannah (also in my junior year)

In my senior year of high school, I was involved in Beta Club, band/colorguard, and the drama club, so there were a bunch of trips in connection with those. In particular, I remember going to Atlanta for the state Beta Club competitions. For band/colorguard, we traveled to I think 4 different competition sites around Georgia. Also in connection with band/colorguard, we went to Six Flags over Georgia, and our big band trip that year was to New Orleans over spring break. For drama, we traveled to Atlanta for a workshop at the Shakespeare Tavern, where we also saw a couple smaller plays, and we also went to the Fox Theatre and saw the touring production of Beauty and the Beast.

 

[bcla]

sun valley mall (for ice skating)

It had a skating rink? I remember there used to be a lot of ice skating at various malls in the Bay Area. Hilltop Mall (which is kind of sad now) opened with one. There was the Ice Chalet in San Mateo that actually remained even after the mall was torn down.

And I remember one more. My HS AP biology class had a short field trip to the electron microscope lab at UC Berkeley. They had a scanning electron microscope, as well as a a transmission electron microscope that only worked with slides.

 

[Scifidiner]

King Tut exhibit in New Orleans.

 

[pigletliz]

In Philadelphia:
Franklin Institute Science Museum/Fels Planetarium (remember the giant walk-thru beating heart?)
Independence Hall/Liberty Bell/Betsy Ross House, etc.
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We went every year!! How sad that the giant heart eventually became the highlight of the trip

 

[georgina]

I went to a very small school through 7th grade (15 kids in the entire grade level). The only field trip I remember is driving to Greenfield Village, which was quite a long drive from Ashtabula, OH!

Reading other posts has jogged my memory - I think we went to the Football Hall of Fame one year, and maybe a president's birthplace near there? Have to go look it up - McKinley apparently.

After we moved back to Cleveland I only remember year end trips to Cedar Point. We went to a play at the Great Lakes Shakespeare festival every year (saw Tom Hanks in 2 Gentlemen of Verona in about '77)

 

[IRLdisneyprincess]

I'm jealous of all the neat trips! We went on a few field trips but once I got to high school they stopped (unless you were in band or went on the summer trips)

Throughout middle school and high school I remember:

-The Houston Zoo
-Six Flags Astroworld and Waterworld (both are gone now)
-The Oil Ranch (not sure where this was)
-Skating Rink
-Local museums (The Museum of Natural Science, etc)
-Space Center Houston

My favorite field trip ever was back when the very first Harry Potter movie came out. I was still in elementary school and my class and several others went to see it. Do schools even go to the movies anymore?! Who knows. But I just remember being so excited to get to miss school and see a movie with my friends.

I also remember day trips to the local parks to have lunch. Actually, another story: in middle school they took all the grades to Astroworld, but they went by grade level. By the time they got our our grade level (we were in eighth) the school ran out of funds to take us and to pay admission. So instead they were going to take us to the park for the day. I remember our class hearing the news and some kid in the back smarted off and said, "Why would we want to go to the park when we could just go to our own backyard?" Well, after that comment our whole class had to stay behind while the rest of our grade went to the park. Lol. Good times.

 

[disykat]

I still think it's weird that I seem to be the only one here who never went on field trips! My first class field trip was in 1982 and I was the teacher!

I did activities with my family, with girl scouts, with church groups, etc. so it wasn't like I was deprived of those experiences, but it just wasn't something that was done in school. High school extra curricular competitions etc. were the only things we were bussed for.

 

[eileenjez]

And we went to the grocery store, that was across from in in Trumbull, CT and toured the meat area.

I used to lead the tours of the grocery store where I worked. Loved taking the little ones into the meat department. They all thought it was great when the manager of the dept would let them touch a cow's tongue. They also like the freezers and trying out the scanners. I would show them the lasers that read the barcodes. Great kids.

Funny story about field trips. My daughter was in high school and had gone on a field trip. Came back to the school on the bus and as they were pulling into the parking lot she looked to where she parked her car only to see an empty space. Someone had stolen it and took it for a joy ride only to park it across the street since she had no gas in it.

 

[Mrs.Milo]

Detroit area again, in 9th grade in the 60’s, a tour of a submarine. It was in the Detroit River, that I remember being by the Belle Isle bridge, and after that going over to Belle Isle and touring a marine museum.

Also Henry Ford Museum/Greenfield Village, Detroit Zoo, Detroit Institute of Art, and the Fisher Building downtown to see 2 plays, Carousel, and Second City.

 

[MomofKatie]

Lots of places! We moved around a lot when I was young, so I attended 6 different elementary schools in 4 different states.
Field trips I remember:
1st grade- an Amish farm in OH
2nd grade- zoo and beach in Puerto Rico
3rd grade- the Chicago museum of Science & Industry, camping in WI
5th grade- Six Flags over GA
7th grade- Colonial Williamsburg
8th grade- Washington DC