the Seventh Grade will be traveling to Washington, D.C. on a combined art and history trip this March? Their itinerary includes stops at the Baltimore Aquarium, National Museum of African American History and Culture, Visionary Art Museum, The National Gallery, Capitol Hill, National Holocaust Museum, Mt. Vernon, and Gettysburg Battlefield.
the Eighth Grade will be traveling to the Florida Everglades in March? The class will experience and study this fragile and endangered ecological system as an extension of their environmental science curriculum and individual research.
the Ninth Grade will travel to France and Spain as a culmination of their study of French, Spanish, and the Humanities in March? It is an immersion experience and one for which our students participate fully in its academic design. As a result of integrated work throughout the year, the students become the primary tour guides; each presenting on historical sites and museums and all in the target language.
Berkshire Country Day School’s distinctive, curriculum-based educational travel programs take our students beyond the Berkshires and Columbia County. Students and faculty members venture out into the world to extend their academic experiences. Augmenting the classroom curriculum, and led by our talented teachers, these travel programs are designed to provide rare and relevant experiences that strengthen independence, build community, and culminate programs of study.