Washington DC trip

Over spring break, my dad took a large groups, two charter buses full, of students to Washington DC. My dad started this trip when he taught 6th grade at North Liberty, but now that he is a principal at Walkerton he has added his students to the NL group and continues to help put the trip on. Remembering the trip from when I was a student, this was a great trip to learn about the history of the US. The students and parents are engaged from the start. This is a big trip to set up, and the cost is a lot, but it is definitely worth it. I know that every two years there is a lot of excitement building up to going on the trip. The great thing about planning a trip like this is the curriculum that can lead up to it and follow up. I would think a unit on pretty much any history lesson, or historical figure would be great. The reason I suggest a trip like this, even though nowadays field trips are hard to convince schools that they are really supported by the standards, is because the primary resources that are in Washington DC are unbelievable, from the Revolutionary War to WWII and present day.