Field Trips
By Amber
@AmbiePam (91966)
United States
September 15, 2012 12:57pm CST
It seems like growing up we went to the same mix of places for field trips every year. When we were younger it was the zoo. From fourth grade up it was always the State Capitol (or is it capital? when exactly do you use the 'o'?), Martin Nature Park, the government place where they shred money (and they always gave each of us a little bag of shredded money), Enterprise Square (which is now closed), and what used to be called the Omniplex, but is now called The Science Museum. Oh yes, and the Cowboy Hall of Fame. I think now that I'm older I'd appreciate the Cowboy Hall of Fame. But as a child I thought it was boring.
What were the field trips you'd go on in school? Did you have any favorites? I liked the Omniplex/Science Museum a lot. It had so many cool things, even an ode to all of the first Ladies of the United States. My least favorite was Martin Nature Park. Because we always went when it was hot and humid.
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@AmbiePam (91966)
• United States
15 Sep 12
We went to a play once, but we had to leave. We went to a Christian school, and well, let's just say on the men's costumes, you could see stuff. The teacher was trying something new, but it was a secular college hosting the play, so she probably should have known better.
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@GardenGerty (160491)
• United States
15 Sep 12
In Junior High the music classes went to see Oliver! on stage. I loved it. That may be when I developed my love for musicals.
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I developed a love for musicals more in college... @GardenGerty (160491)
• United States
15 Sep 12
Growing up in your neck of the woods, I was born before these things existed. I do not think we ever went to the State Capital,(not sure between a and o)but we went to a historical museum which must have been at the capital.I think that trip included greenhouses as well and was on the grounds of the Will Rogers Rose Gardens. We also were allowed to have "fun" field trips and the teachers did not have to justify with "educational objectives" trips to Springlake and there was another amusement park I cannot name right now. I know neither of them are open anymore. Sometimes I did not have the money to go to some. I know the class went to a western movie, based on a Louis L'Amour novel, and I could not go. It was after a unit on the Civil War and the Carpet Baggers.
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@AmbiePam (91966)
• United States
16 Sep 12
We went to the state capital every year because the grandpa of a kid in our class (whose parents also went to our church) was a state representative. So he personally showed us around. We got an official photo and all that. It was cool a couple times. But when I say every year, I mean every single year.
I forgot the rose gardens.
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@carmelanirel (20942)
• United States
16 Sep 12
Wow, this is bad..Though I am sure we probably had trips like to the Children's Museum and other educational trips, all I can remember is the walk to Dairy Queen and I would get the Peanut Buster Parfait, still my favorite treat there..
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@carmelanirel (20942)
• United States
17 Sep 12
They really don't where I live either. Oh there is a building with a DQ sign and when we first moved here over 25 years ago, we enjoyed it. But that owner sold the business, it has been opened and closed so many times, I have lost count. DQ is the only place that sells the ice cream cake my son will eat, he won't eat the grocery store "Carnival" brand. There is one that is 40 miles away and that is where we buy his b-day cake now, but that is too far to go for an ice cream...:(
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@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
15 Sep 12
hi ambiepam oh when I was that age we only went to close by places. some we co ld walk too some they would take several cars and we went to sugar beet factory in my county in my home state,
also factory making paper and we went for a tree identification walk in my home town also we went to a sheep ranch and a cattle ranch as most of us lived on farms anyway . we got to try our hand at shearing the wool.,that was fun.the sugar beet factory was not as ground up sugar beets smell horrible. stomach turning time.,I loved the cattle ranch and the sheep ranch though. the tree tour I also loved the tree tour too as I had not realized how many different trees we had in our small town,.
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@katsmeow1213 (28716)
• United States
16 Sep 12
My kids might be going to New York City this year. That's all they've been able to talk about since school started!
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@winterose (39887)
• Canada
18 Sep 12
I don't get out much anymore but I used to like the museums,
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@sarahruthbeth22 (43143)
• United States
16 Sep 12
I am about 8 miles away from D.C. Our field trips were to the White House and The Air and Space Museum . Sadly with all this teaching to the test I wonder if kids get any field trips.
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@jillhill (37354)
• United States
16 Sep 12
That was a long time ago for me but we did a few...the state capitol and also we went to the cities to see a play. I remember the play to this day as I was so taken by seeing real actors. I know there were other smaller trips...but these two were the highlights.
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@3SnuggleBunnies (16374)
• United States
16 Sep 12
I think different districts go to different places. Here they only seem to go to either farms, the small local museum, or nature centers (ran by the city/county). My 4th grader said they were going on the field trip to the capitol, we never did that. However, I remember going to Chicago Art Museum, Old World Wisconsin, Discovery World, PAC now the Marcus Center for Performing Arts, and the County Zoo that I could remember.
I remember in college one of the places we went on a field trip to was a big dry cleaner (studied Apparel Marketing) and how they treated various fabrics for my textiles class.
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@cynthiann (18602)
• Jamaica
15 Sep 12
Not too many field trips for us when I was in school. One trip to London, and several to the local Theatre. I also remember that we went on a biology field trip for one week and that was the highlight of my school days.The art galleries etc we did on our own. Blessings
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@natliegleb (5175)
• India
16 Sep 12
i like to go to museum and enjoy a lot with my friends and in the nature park we can visit more people and spend time happily
@Rayolin (12)
• Estonia
16 Sep 12
I had pretty many field trips in school, twice we went abroad. But I guess I will most likely remember the one when we went to one river valley and it was in March the temperatue must have been around +5 celsius or so. But the trick was that the stairs were covered with ice so we couldn't really go down, but me and few of my friends did, We went from next to the stairs and pretty much we were holding on to trees and then taking next step on going down the hill to bottom of the valley. We thought that the others would follow us, but they didn,t, They came down from safer passage. Anyhow thanks to that we got kind of lost, so we tryed to find the others at first, lucily one of us had some money left on his cellphone so we contacted with our teacher. And like after 3 hours we found the others.
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@anggunmelati (551)
• Indonesia
10 Nov 12
The best place I go when I was in high school is My museum City. I can play in there in their park. I don't enter to museum to see all historical and science things. I just play in their beauty park. I am still laughing if I remember it. Another favorite place i my town is animal park. Very amazing place
