Field Trip to the Warren County History Center

Mr. John Zimkus leads  St. Francis DeSales second graders in a discussion about the development of towns and communities in Warren County by reviewing a map of the county.

So many schools have given up field trips because of the cost of providing bus transportation.  A group of second graders from St. Francis DeSales school in Lebanon took advantage of the Warren County History Center's free admission for K-12 field trips and visited the Center last Friday. They walked from their school about a mile north of the History Center. The visit to the History Center was part of a history field trip that included a trip to Lebanon's Pioneer Cemetery and a walking tour of some of the town's significant architecture.

Part of the tour centered around the Six Simple Machines. The six simple machines helped our pioneer fore bearers to carve a living out of the wilderness of Ohio, The six simple machines are the pulley, the wheel, the incline plane, wedge, screw and the lever.  Here a second grader uses a wooden buggy jack to lift up a wheel on a buggy.  Do you know which one of the six simple machines this jack represents?

The History Center's  school tour for students from second through eighth grade follows the Ohio Department of Education's standards for social studies education.  The six simple machines discussions  bridge social studies and science and examples of the machines can be found through out the museum's displays. 

Certified social studies teacher and museum staff person Ms. Dunham, reviews the technology our pioneer grandparents used to produce their clothing on the frontier. Can you name any of the six simple machines that are involved in making cloth?