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Docent Ed Polcer, a cornet player who has performed at the White House and the r

What a wonderful ‘world’

Who says there’s no such thing as time travel? Thirty-six students and three teachers from Brooklyn traveled by train for only an hour on Oct. 18, but arrived in Corona, Queens, and found they’d been transported back to the mid-1900s, to the house where legendary trumpeter Louis Armstrong spent his last 28 years.

Rita Marx, a docent at the Rubin Museum of Art in Manhattan, explains an exhibit

Putting imagination on the map

To find the buried treasure, take the path from Camp I through the shortcut under the water — but be sure to avoid the zombies and the place where you trip on seashells.

Students work alongside teacher Christopher Gianesses to study the pattern in th

Shaping education

A new math workshop helps upper elementary school students explore the relationship between familiar shapes and the unique architecture of the Morgan Library and Museum.

A student displays his completed terrarium.

Planting seeds of learning

The 1st-graders from PS 166 in Astoria played in the dirt, squished the loamy soil through their fingers and grabbed handfuls of gravel as they set about creating individual terrariums. The fun was all part of a class trip to the Voelker Orth Museum, a bird sanctuary and Victorian home and garden in Flushing.

Students discuss the unusual marionettes, which are also featured in the artist’s video on the ancient roots of modern conflicts.

Art and soul

What are the odds that a group of urban high school students, many of whom had never set foot in an art museum before, would love an avant-garde museum devoted to new and challenging artwork?  Yet students from Harlem’s Mott Hall HS were exuberant in their praise after visiting MoMA PS 1 in Long Island City last spring.

Teacher Jaimie Ellerbrock and some of her students make the math-music connection as they play on the Harmony of the Spheres, where each globe lights up in a different color and has a different tone or triad chord.

Where math goes to get cool

Forget what you think you know about math: At the National Museum of Mathematics in Manhattan, it’s not something you work on with pencil and paper.

The students examine purple aster as PS 179 teacher Diane Corrigan (right) looks on.

Sowing the seeds of learning

It’s not often that city kids calmly kneel before flowers and count bees and wasps. But the 21 students in Diane Corrigan’s 1st-grade class at PS 179 in Kensington did just that on a class trip to the Gateway National Recreation Area on Jamaica Bay in Queens on Oct. 9.

The kindergartners at PS/MS 207 in Howard Beach make one important stop before getting back on the bus: to see the cow.

A trip back in time

Kindergartners from PS/MS 207 in Howard Beach took a class trip to the 300-year-old Queens County Farm on Jan. 23. The students were in the midst of a literacy unit comparing present and past, and the children had come to the farm to witness some of those changes firsthand.

PS 34 students strut their stuff waiting for the theater doors to open.

Broadway, here we come!

Professional musicians and performers from Rosie’s Theater Kids introduce students from PS 34 in the East Village to American musical theater by teaching them the dance routines and songs of the genre. The program begins with the class trip to see Matilda.