Field Trips
Colonial History
Immigration
Ocean Science
Titanic
100
On this field trip we learned about Dutch settlers and saw the negative impact of industry along the Hudson River.
What is the Dutch Apple Cruise?
100
Angry protestors dressed up as Mohicans and dumped tea into Boston harbor during this event.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
100
Doctors used this strange tool to examine under the eyelids of immigrants arriving at Ellis Island.
What is a shoehook?
100
This is like a river within the ocean.
What is a current?
100
This is the length of the Titanic.
What is 883 feet?
200
We visited this location twice. Once to explore the Native American Collection, and once to explore the Immigration exhibit.
What is the NYS Museum?
200
He was the first president of the United States
Who is George Washington?
200
Between 1880 and 1924 millions of immigrants passed through this small island before entering the United States.
What is Ellis Island?
200
In the book, "Tracking Trash," oceanographers follow the path of these to learn about currents.
What are sneakers?
200
More people died from this class of passengers than from any other class.
What is third class?
300
Here, Bradley discovered a Herkimer Diamond/ Smokey Quartz.
What is Henry Hudson Park?
300
Before there were states, there were thirteen of these.
What are colonies?
300
Between 1880 and 1924, immigrants arrived from all over the world, but most of them came from this continent.
What is Europe?
300
This word describes an objects floatiness or sinkiness.
What is buoyancy?
300
A series of dots and dashes, this code was used to communicate to other ships.
What is Morse Code?
400
Here, we helped elderly residents prepare for their Cinco De Mayo celebration.
What is Albany County Nursing Home.
400
The Revolutionary War was fought between the British and this group.
Who are the Americans?/Patriots?
400
Jacob Riis used this new technology to shed light on the deplorable living conditions of newly arrived immigrants living in NYC.
What is a camera with a flash?
400
This word describes the presence of salt.
What is salinity?
400
Shortly before hitting the iceberg, passengers on the Titanic felt the air temperature drop. This happened when the ship entered this current.
What is the Labrador Current?
500
Here we tried on clothes from the 1850s, and learned about one free African American family living in Albany at that time period.
What is the Underground Railroad Project/Museum.
500
During this famous trials, many women were accused of being witches; but moldy bread may have been the real source of their odd behavior.
What are the Salem Witch Trials?
500
During the 1840s and early 1850s many Irish immigrants came to the U.S. to escape this terrible food shortage.
What is The Potato Famine?
500
This type of water movement is caused by wind and the gravitational pull of the moon.
What are waves?
500
This city was the Titanic's intended destination.
What is New York City?
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