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NYC/NJ Field Trips

This site hosts all the information teachers might want to plan a successful field trip for an elementary classroom.  Students from Montclair State University’s Teacher Education Program have gone on these trips and done all the planning to help you before you go.  All of the sites chosen also reinforce the Six Elements of Social Justice Check out their sites!

  • American Labor Museum
  • African American Historical Museum Society
  • Montclair Art Museum
  • Tenefly African Art Museum
  • Morris Museum
  • Newark Museum’s African Art Exhibit
  • El Museo Del Barrio
  • American Indian Museum
  • Ellis Island Museum
  • Museum of the Chinese in America
  • Red Mill Museum
  • El Museo Del Barrio
  • Rubin Museum of Art
  • The Lambert Castle
  • National Museum of the American Indian
  • Montclair Art Museum
  • The Asian Exhibits at the Newark Museum
  • Montclair Art Museum
  • The Newark Museum
  • The New Jersey Children’s Museum
  • The Tenement Museum
  • The Montclair Art Museum
  • New Jersey Historical Society
  • The United Nations
  • American Museum of Natural History
  • The African Burial Grounds
  • The Community Children’s Museum
  • The Holocaust Museum and Study Center
  • The Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • The King Tut Exhibit
  • Of Many Colors Traveling Exhibit
  • The Newark Museum: The Native American Exhibit
  • The Newark Museum: The Asian and African American Exhibits
  • The Brooklyn Museum
  • El Museo Del Barrio
  • The American Indian Museum
  • American Museum of Natural History- Culture Halls
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Using their Words showcases social justice education projects in elementary school classrooms. All the units housed on this site:
  • were designed and implemented by elementary school teachers and student teachers
  • focus on social justice issues such as racism, gentrification, fairness, child labor etc.
  • help students ask difficult questions about the world
  • are designed to engage children in social action to change the conditions of their worlds
  • have been integrated with standards or mandated curricular programs

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