Which school field trips do you remember going on?

[E&Cmom]

i remember quite a few:
Zoo trip
Lots of field trips to local mountains/ nature centers
Sugar shack in March- I grew up in Quebec and this is still one thing I miss doing in the Spring.
Sleep over ski camp in Grade 4 and then we did a Spring camp at samw place in grade 6.
Sleep over at the school and went to another school for activites.
Boat trip
Trip to Fort
Trip to Downtown Montreal to the Planaterium, one of the big churches and the Botanical Gardens
High School Band Trip to Canada Wonderland in Toronto. We performeed there. We also did the Science Museum and CN tower on the same trip.
Band camp.

 

[low-key]

The one I remember best from grade school is Stan Hewit, that was the former mansion of the founder of Goodyear Tire, it was so decked out

 

[Gumbo4x4]

My HS German class went to the Budweiser Brewery for a tour

 

[clori]

Prior to 6th grade - Museum of Science, Benson's Wild Animal Kingdom

6th grade - trip to Boston on a Saturday for the end of elementary school (we had junior high) - morning at Museum of Science, lunch at Faneuil Hall, visit to some Art Museum at Harvard, some time at the Aquarium ending with a Red Sox game.

7th grade - trip to Canobie Lake Park (small amusement park) but to make it educational we started at some place with a cave called Mystery Hill.

7th Grade Band - we went to Boston (about 1.5 hours away) to see the Nutcracker since we were playing the Nutcracker Suite in band. The bus driver had no idea how to leave Boston so our midnight arrival time was delayed a few hours (before cell phones). We ended up with a police escort from city lines to the school where very tired parents were waiting and we still had school at 7:30am.

8th - few day trip to NYC

 

[xjillianpaige]

Sturbridge Village. I always loved history.
4th grade to Wolf Hollow. That was really cool.
8th grade to a production of Romeo and Juliet.
I think 4th grade was also the year we toured the hometown, went to the center and city hall and the police station. I was the one they used as an example of how they booked someone. I remember seeing the (very empty) cells.

 

[bcla]

Oh - one junior high English class trip to see A Midsummer Night's Dream at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. Our teacher prepped us for what to expect, and she was telling us about a previous trip where they were near a couple that was (in her words) "making love". She really meant "making out" but I guess she was using old-fashioned language. Didn't happen for our trip.

 

[adisneyaunt]

5th grade , Statue of Liberty. My one and only visit.
I still have that brass replica of lady liberty!

 

[AInWonderland]

Wow tvguy when I read the post I immediately thought Wonder Bread factory.... so funny that you did also!

 

[Skippy918]

The Bronx zoo, various pumpkin patches, Museum of Natural History and the planetarium, aquarium, Rockefeller Center, Great Adventure. All were visited multiple times throughout elementary and high school.

 

[Yoshi]

5th grade, Baltimore Inner Habor, Aquarium and Ft. McHenry
8th grade, PA State Capitol Building and Hersheypark
9th grade, Gettysburg
10th grade, Ellis Island and Statue of Liberty
11th grade, exact same as 5th grade
12th grade, all 4 WDW parks and Blizzard Beach

Also multiple trips to the Franklin Institue Science Museum in elementary and middle school.

 

[Lilacs4Me]

First grade- Detroit Zoo, when I-696 was still under construction (for all of you Detroit Natives.)

Rest of elem school: various museums, Greenfield Village/Henry Ford Museum

4th grade: Rotary Park, where I had my first kiss in the giant tire on the playground

7th Grade: Boblo Island

8th grade: Cedar Point, horseback riding, and some outdoor nature thing at Kensington Metropark.

High school choir: Toronto for Phantom of the Opera - twice, various festivals and competitions, and Cedar Point every year in May.

 

[bcla]

Oh - in high school, anyone who qualified as an honor student got to go on a trip to Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk. We all got on real chartered coach buses and not school buses like with most field trips. We also got unlimited rides, but it wasn't the standard hospital-style plastic band. School groups got a red string with this weird metal closure. A lot of teachers knew this was coming, and some classes would basically be empty except for the few kids who didn't qualify or whose parents didn't want them to go.

I mentioned our Grad Nite trip, and for that we chartered several buses from Greyhound. It's actually the only time I'd ever been on a Greyhound bus in my life.

 

[maddiel]

I don't remember any particular field trips from elementary, but in high school we got to go down into a actual working coal mine during their Saturday maintenance shift for one of my classes. (I grew up in a coal mining area)

M.

 

[sweetpeama]

Local Dairy Farm (boring since 98% of my grade school class were farm/ranch kids and the place was usually a relative's just a matter of what degree. We wanted to go check out the latest batch of kittens but no)
Dairy Processing Plant
Sweetheart Bakery
Art Museum
Pizza Hut
Western Heritage Center
County Museum (felt bad for any tourists trying to stop when we were there since we took up the entire cabin and parking lot)
Water treatment Plant (smell made us gag and since I had the same teacher for 2 years I got to go twice plus we went with both scouts and 4h)
Fire Station
Ambulance Station


High School went with Deutsch Club and our Deutsch American Partnership Program students to see a Native American Mini Pow Wow at a high school in the next county over where we also got to try some traditional foods ( Fry bread I love, Pumician ( dried and shreadded buffalo mixed with lard and dried berries usually chock cherries and carried on long journeys or in battle) I didn't care for. Also went to what was then Custer's Last Stand ( Called Custer's Waterloo by many but never officially) now called Bighorn National Battlefield, and the County Museum for that County ( which was much nicer than ours because it had several buildings including an old one room school house-where we even had a lesson and sat girls on one side boys on the other). I got to go on this one because we were a host family-due to school politics I was not allowed to make the trip to Germany to stay with the young lady we hosted. ( Due to my hearing loss I was considered a special ed student and the German teacher thought I would be an embarrassment plus another student who came from a family that had money decided she wanted to go even though her family had not participated until half way through the time that the German students were here and the student my family was hosting had to go spend a long weekend with the other girl's family. My parents and I were told I would get to go the next year without us having to host a student and could even stay with the same exchange student we had hosted and then we got told that year oh it's going to be an every other year program and since she will have been out of school a year she is not eligible-to say my mother was livid was an understatement she went not only to the principle but to the school board and even to the state office of public instruction with her complaints).

My kids have done field trips to
County Museum
Western Heritage Center
Zoo
Wild Life Sanctuary
Chief Plenty Coup Home
Smith Mine Disaster Site ( What could be seen from the road as it is located on what is now private property)
1880s Train
Mount Rushmore
South Dakota Geological Museum
Mammoth Site
Custer State Park including Needles Highway, Iron Mountain Road, and Wildlife Loop
Canyon Creek Battle Site

 

[Kellykins1218]

Zoo, potato chip factory, orchestra, ballet, natural history museum, pro football hall of fame, historic Hale Farm & Village, Stan Hywet, aquarium, metroparks, and the USS Cod submarine. The best one was getting to ride the RTA to the Cleveland airport and getting on a TWA plane. We were given drinks, snacks, wings, and they started the plane and taxied around a bit before going back to the gate. This was around 1978 or 79.

 

[tvguy]

And then there was Disneyland Grad Nite, although I'm not sure that was a field trip. And the best part was that we managed to do Knott's Berry Farm, Disneyland (closed to the public of course), and Magic Mountain within 24 hours. I'm trying to remember the entertainment - Expose, Force MD's, Roger, and (I kid you not) Michael Bolton. It did kind of suck having to wear a suit and tie on rides though.

I was LIVID. All through high school I was looking forward to Grad Nite at Disneyland, and our class officers decided Disney was sooo old school, so our trip was to Lake Tahoe. I did NOT go.

 

[tvguy]

Wow tvguy when I read the post I immediately thought Wonder Bread factory.... so funny that you did also!

I worked in the building next door to Wonder Bread for a year, graveyard shift when the ovens were going full speed. I think I put on 30 pounds just from the smell.

 

[scrhsa]

In first grade we went to Busch Gardens in Houston( only open from'71 to '73). I all I really remember is a bird riding a little bike and actually touring the brewery next door. Can't see that happening now a days We also went a lot to the Houston Museum of Natural Science. Going to San Jacinto Monument and picnicing beside the Battleship Texas was pretty cool.

 

[Kellykins1218]

I worked in the building next door to Wonder Bread for a year, graveyard shift when the ovens were going full speed. I think I put on 30 pounds just from the smell.

My mom worked next door to Smuckers. I can't even describe how amazing it smelled especially when they were making apple butter.

 

[melanielll]

In high school (1976), we went to see the freedom train. But - the train people messed up the scheduling, and we waited in line for hours without getting in. The highlight - one of the teachers cursed out one of the train people. It was some fine cursing. Most memorable trip ever.

Best trip - we went to see King Tut. And that was before they sent copies of the stuff around like they do now. It was great.

We also went to see President Ford speak. Someone tried to kill him. It was a debacle.