Speaking of School Field Trips……

1. Living in the Chicago area we never once visited Jay's Potato Chips, Ferrara Pan Candy, or Tootsie Roll much less Wrigley Gum, Brach Candy, or M&M Mars.  
 

2. My wife's 8th grade trip was to Washington DC.  We went to Milwaukee on a coach bus day trip.  We visited the Zoo, some plant terrarium thing, a German Smorgasbord AND the Miller Brewery.

We all bought a ton of Miller Beer souvenirs and we picked on the one Nun and teacher that got to sample the beer.   I think they stopped going in the early 80's realizing the alcohol thing.   

3. In high school we went on a machine shop tour of EMD (ElectroMotive Locomotives). Ironically it's now my biggest account.   Somebody stole a giant engine valve then later didn't know what to do with it.  
 

4. And in the end Chicago has the Famous Field Museum of Natural History.   Been a ton - can't look at ancient Asian pottery any more.

You?

In reply to Datsun310Guy :

Can’t compete with sisters at a brewery but being in the greater Boston are we visited:

 Plymouth Plantation and the Mayflower. (11GTCS has always had a boat obsession so yes please.)

Museum of Science in Boston. The Planetarium was cool.  Later years with our kids and now they have an absolutely berkeleying massive Van de Graaf generator display that was donated by the estate of a former MIT professor. ( He had this set up in his lab / lecture hall apparently.  Holy E36 M3!)   Real time 20 feet away from you lightning show. Way cool.

Heritage Museum and Gardens in Sandwich MA.   Yeah the gardens were nice but the car collection was awesome. (Packard’s Duesenbergs, etc,)

Battleship  Cove where USS Massachusetts ( WW2 battleship) a destroyer, a submarine and a couple of PT boats live.  (See previous boat obsession reference). We took our kids here a few years ago and the ships are almost completely open to explore now.  I was going over steam propulsion 101 with them in one of the four engine rooms, not sure they were quite as into it as I was.  LOL

In reply to Datsun310Guy :

We went to the art museum, it was when they put the Bears helmets on the lions out front. Most of the trip was all the stoner kids getting high on the bus on the way there, in the city, and on the way back home. However they also took us to Watertower Place & let us just randomly roam around that area on our own for a while. 

We visited all the historical sites around town. Ft Sumpter Ft. Moultrie, Charlestown Landing, as well as the State House in Columbia, SC, the state museum, and the Riverbanks Zoo. 

Now, they don't take the kids hardly anywhere. 

We took our senior trip to San Francisco and our Physics class took a trip to the Sana Cruz Boardwalk.

My hometown's major employer was Central Foundry, a GM casting plant.  It was a popular field trip and I visited a couple times with different classes.  Really cool "fires of hell" kind of place.  We also went to Greenfield Village and the Henry Ford museum in 6th grade.  The trip included a tour of a Ford sheet metal rolling factory.  That was really memorable.

Let's see what I can remember...

• All of the Chicago Museums
  • Art Institute
  • Field Museum
  • Shedd Aquarium
  • Museum of Science and Industry (AWESOME!!!)
• Brookfield Zoo and Lincoln Park Zoo
• Chicago Botanical Gardens
• Milwaukee Art Museum 
• Theatre every year 1-5 grade
• A local prairie conservation area
• local marsh/bog area
• Pasta maker (formerly made the macaroni for Kraft, then just sold their own noodles after Kraft brought it in house)
• Springfield, Illinois for 7th grade trip. Somebody brought a playboy
• Fire department

And the two best were in 8th grade and senior year - for our Physics classes, we went to 6 Flags. 

Sagamore Hill in Oyster Bay on Long Island a number of times in grade school. And a few as an adult. The wife was not so thrilled.

All the museums and planetariums on LI and in NYC.

The Montauk light house.

I know as kids growing up in Northwestern NJ, we made a couple school trips into NYC to various museums.  As a student of Spanish, we took a trip to NYC to see Jose Greco in some dusty old theatre.  For those familiar with the Flamenco, it consists of some vigorous stomping.  At the end of Senor Greco's dance, a significant cloud of long-dormant dust hung in the air near the stage.

My kids field trips involving the entire class tended to be pretty lame, with a definite tie-in to something they were studying.  The significant exception would be trips organized by the music department.  These included middle school trips to Hershey Park via motor coach from Richmond, VA.  While in high school, my eldest had the privilege of flying to New Orleans for the Jazz Festival with his Jazz Band class.

Tarrytown GM assembly plant was the only one I really was interested in. Most of the other field trips were to places I'd already been to.

I live in central NC.

In high school my chorus went on trips each year - New York City first two times, the Chicago (I can say I sang national anthem at a White Sox game!), and for senior year DC.

Now Im a teacher and Ive taken kids to DC three times.

I took a thanatology field trip in high school. We went to a cemetery, a funeral home and a place that sold headstones. 

In reply to hybridmomentspass :

Are you a music teacher?