‘Twas Friday the 27th when our sixth grade took a field trip to the Raleigh Museum of Natural Sciences to learn. The trip started with a 30 minute bus drive to simply get to the museum itself, for me the trip was mostly uneventful, maybe not for others though. Once we arrived there, my advisory joined the advisory we were paired with and we set off. We first went to an exhibit on the life that lives at beaches. We learned about sand dunes and other ocean things as well. On the next floor we learned about several environments in North Carolina such as the mountains and the Piedmont, we also learned about the animals that made those areas their home.

While I cannot remember the chronological order of most of the things we did, I do remember them. We went to an area that focused on mentors and we learned about a meteor shower that happened in Chicago where a bunch of meteorites hit Chicago.  We also went to a place where people were 3D printing items and that was cool. We went to a really interesting exhibit called RACE Are We So Different. In there we learned about how race was created and how biologically race isn’t real. The exhibit was very insightful to how race affects many things like health and the environment.

After the RACE exhibit we went to an area about insects and arachnids and we got to see real tarantulas and hissing cockroaches which were kinda gross. We also went to other areas with animals like snakes and frogs that were really cute, we went to an area about dinosaurs. That’s about all I remember but the field trip was very fun and I learned a lot about many subjects.