On April 11, Becky Lawrence’s Foods 3 class left school on a trip to learn about food and culture in Soulard.

“We went to the Soulard Market, and talked to local farmers about supply and demand and what it is like to grow your own food,” Lawrence said.

The class explored the market and observed a variety of foods and products from different vendors. Afterwards, they visited Shoguns, a Japanese restaurant.

“The cooks there cooked the food right in front of you, so the chefs got to show off their skills. I was hoping it would help inspire some of the students, make them want to try some of those techniques,” Lawrence said.

Finally, the class visited Global Foods, a restaurant in Kirkwood that specializes in different foods from around the world. Members of Foods 3 completed a scavenger hunt to find strange and different food from across the store

“Foods 3 is my advanced class, and the whole purpose is to learn about international foods and culture,” Lawrence said.

Though the class just finished their field  trip, Lawrence is aleready planing more trips for the future. Lawrence is hoping to one day take the class to California Pizza Kitchen, and teach the students about different types of ingredients and cooking styles.

In April, a hand full of other classes will be going on field trips to help with their class. On April 16, Jean Peters’ AP Art History class will be visiting several artistic places around St. Louis, including a Hindu temple, the St. Louis Art Museum,

The first stop on their journey will be to visit the Hindu Temple of St. Louis.

“Visiting the temple will be a great opportunity for us to study both the hindu faith and how that particular religious temple differs from other places, like the Islamic temple or the St. Louis Basilica, both of which we had visited before,” Peters said. “Not many of my students have a Hindu background, so it will be a really good example for them to see religious art and architecture, up close and personal.”

Afterwords, the class will visit the St. Louis Art Museum to observe impressionist and 20th to 21st century art.

“Art history isn’t in a classroom, it isn’t in a book, its not on a screen. It’s out there, and the best way to see it is in person,” Peters said.

The AP and regular Physics classes will be visiting Six Flags for “Physics Day,” an event where students from around the county will be able to use new scientific technologies, provided by the event’s sponsor, Vernier, to calculate measurements on some of the different roller coasters at the park.

“It’s a day where you can go and take measurements of all the different forces and physics calculations to life, and there are few other places in a world where you have forces or acceleration like that than on a roller coaster,” said Ryan Bixby, science teacher.

The students will ride the coasters and then take different measurements about them. Afterwords, they will use this data to create calculations and answer different questions about the rides.

AP Biology will also be taking a day to get hands-on experience. On April 22, the 2 block classes will drive to the St. Louis Zoo to visit with the wild animals and catch an infamous sea lion show.

Here is a list of the upcoming field trips:

April 11 – Foods 3, Soulard

April 16 – AP Art History, Hindu Temple and St. Louis Art museum

April 22 – AP Biology, St. Louis Zoo

April 25 – AP Physics and Physics, Six Flags

May 5 – Foods 3, Le’Ecole Culinaire