Please note that the MCPS Field Trip Database has not been updated recently so some of the information that you find here may be out of date or incorrect.
We are in the process of significantly revamping the Social Studies site. In the meantime, the National History Education Clearinghouse provides a similar service allowing users to search for historical sites and museums by topic, time period, place type, state, and keyword.
Welcome to the Montgomery County Public Schools Social Studies Field Trip Database. This resource lists over 150 field trip sites in the Greater Washington, DC metropolitan area that are linked to the Montgomery County Public Schools social studies curriculum for Grades K-5. You can access the field trip sites by using the table of contents on the left or by scrolling to the end of this page.
Field trips enable teachers to expand children's learning beyond the walls of the classroom into the vast community outside. They provide children with experiences that cannot be duplicated in the school but are nonetheless an integral part of school instruction. Perhaps a field trip can best be described as a living laboratory in which learning is acquired through active hands-on experience with the rich resources of the local community.
Research has shown that field trips are important for many reasons:
- they increase student knowledge and understanding of a subject,
- they add realism to the topic of study, and
- they provide an opportunity to develop and enhance a student's socialization and citizenship skills.
Photo Credits
- Top - courtesy of C&O canal
- Middle - courtesy of Colonial Williamsburg
- Bottom - courtesy of National Capital Trolley Museum
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