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Carolina Curious: How Field Trips Level the Playing Field

Meadowlark Elementary first-graders piece together a human skeleton. MANKAPRR CONTEH/WFDD.

It's been nearly forty years since WFDD listener Amanda Sattler was in elementary school in Winston-Salem. A field trip that would be taboo today was a highlight of their year.

“When I was a kid, we always went—it seemed like every year—on field trips to R.J. Reynolds tobacco factory to see the cigarettes being made. And for whatever reason, I started thinking—I wonder where kids nowadays go on field trips, because I somehow doubt that's what they're doing.”

To find out where kids are going these days, WFDD intern Mankaprr Conteh dropped in on a few field trips in the Camel City, and found that they can help bridge the distant worlds students in the same town can occupy.

Where Kids Go

The first was Meadowlark Elementary School's first-grade trip to Kaleideum North, a hands-on science museum in Winston-Salem. There, first-grader Emory DuPont pulled a thick colored cord off of a cubby and beckoned to

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