Miss Malarkey takes her class on a field trip to the science museum, where they explore a dinosaur exhibit, watch a 3-D movie, and have many other adventures, both planned and unplanned.
During a field trip to the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum, Lucy and Kevin time travel to the 1975 Apollo-Soyuz Test Project and find themselves as Alexei Leonov and Thomas Stafford enacting the historic first rendezvous in space.
The kids from Polk Street take a class trip to Philadelphia where they see the Liberty Bell, the Declaration of Independence, and Benjamin Franklin's inventions. There is a kids' guide to Philadelphia at the end of the story.
As a teenaged girl on a school field trip to New York City who is tempted to break away from the group for some adventure, the reader determines the outcome of the story by taking personality quizzes interspersed throughout the text.
Describes the experiences of a group of middle school students who spend a week at Kings Landing Historical Settlement, learning what life was like for young people in the nineteenth century.