We had so many great field trips when I was a kid. Virginia and DC have no end of cool places to visit, BUT I would have to say my most memorable field trip was in 5th grade when we went ventured all the way to Gettysburg to see the battlefield. We had been learning about the Civil War and memorized some of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and this was the fieldtrip that would "seal" the historic events into our minds. Sadly, while I did learn and beneift from fieldtrips, I saw them as more of a social event than an opportunity for learning. The details are fuzzy (it was SO long ago), but I remember getting goofy and acting like a total clown pretending to give a speech on a giant rock when... riiiiiiip... I split out the backside of my trendy red "scooter skirt" in front of the small crowd around me. Boy was my face red. Thankfully, someone lent me their windbreaker so I wrapped it around my behind and tried to behave more modestly for the rest of the trip. :-/
