Whether you are taking a classroom of children or just your own, field trips are a good way to teach and entertain children. Field trips offer children the excitement of getting away from the house or classroom for an up-close and hands-on experience.
Maryland is filled with engaging field trip possibilities, including visits to historical farms, a duck decoy museum and a navy museum.
Carroll County Farm Museum is located in Westminster, Maryland. CCFM opened to the public in 1966. The property is anchored by its original farmhouse, built in 1852, and a variety of other structures are featured, including a barn, smokehouse, saddlery, broom shop, spring house, living history museum, wagon shed, general store and one-room schoolhouse.
CCFM has a collection of horse-powered machines and farm implements used in the 19th-century. Self-guided tours also are available.
Admission for Carroll County students and chaperons is $2 per person. For students and chaperons outside of Carroll County the price is $3. One teacher per group is free and there must be one chaperon per five students. General admission for adults is $5; for children 7 to 17 and adults 60 and older the cost is $3 and children 6 and under are free.
Carroll County Farm Museum
500 South Center Street
Westminster, MD 21157-5615
800-654-4645
http://www.carrollcountyfarmmuseum.org/
The Havre de Grace Decoy Museum was founded in 1986 to showcase duck decoys and the history of water-fowling on Chesapeake Bay. The museum displays more than 1,200 decoys.
The museum exhibits include a history of the duck decoy itself, a history of water-fowling along the Susquehanna Flats and Chesapeake Bay, and even a replica of the workshop of R. Madison Mitchell, a famous carver of duck decoys.
Admissions for students is $2 and $4 for chaperons. General admission is $6 for adults 18 to 64, $5 for adults 65 and older, $2 for children ages 9 to 18, and free for children age 8 and under. Free admission is also given to the museum's members.
Havre de Grace Decoy Museum
215 Giles St.
Havre de Grace, MD 21078
410-939-3739
http://www.decoymuseum.com/
The United States Naval Academy Museum is located on the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. The USNAM was originally established in 1845 as the Naval Academy Lyceum.
In the late 1800s and early 1900s, several historical naval museums were closed and had their exhibits sent to the USNAM. In 1939, the current location was opened with two extensions built in 1962 and 1970.
Admission is free.
U.S. Naval Academy Museum
118 Maryland Avenue
Annapolis, MD 21402-5034
410-293-2108
http://www.usna.edu/Museum/homepage.htm
