On October 9, the 6th, 7th, and 8th grades of OLS went to the St. Louis Art Museum. When we all got there, we were given a small booklet. The directions were to find certain pictures of St. Louis and write things about him in the book. We were able to learn about things such as why Saint Louis was so famous, why St. Louis was chosen to be our city's name, and other facts about St. Louis. We also were taught about the making of manuscript. The materials used to do it were feathers, a carving tool, paper, and ink. When we finished the booklets, we got to just roam around and look at other exhibits. There were paintings, sculptures, architecture, and other types of art. -- Casey A.
On Thursday, October 9, the sixth, seventh, and eighth grade took an educational field trip to the very well-known Forest Park. We took this field trip to learn more about the great 250 years of our city’s past. At the History Museum, we went on a tour about the 1904's World Fair and we experimented on filtering water to make it cleaner; we made our own water filters. The workers there did a superb job at explaining the ups and downs of the 1904 World’s Fair. Although there are other exhibits at the museum, they feature a World’s Fair exhibit year-round. If you get chance go and check out the exhibit because there are definitely things in there that you haven't heard of and they really fill up your brain. In the end, I really enjoyed this field trip because I learned more about how fantastic St. Louis' history is. -- Vincent L.
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| The students listen to directions from their tour guide. |
The 6th, 7th, and 8th grades went on a field trip to the art and history museums. We had a great experience at the History Museum. We went to the “Let’s Build a Fair” exhibit. We saw a lot of old artifacts from the 1904 World’s Fair, and took a walk to the fountains in front of the Art Museum to see what the grounds would have looked like. At the World Fair, there was a miniature version of Jerusalem. We also learned that it was the 1904 World’s Fair was the first appearance of the Ferris Wheel. We also did an activity where we tried to filter water. We put rocks, sand, marbles, cotton, and coffee filters in a soda bottle, poured dirty water in it. It worked really well! We didn't sanitize the water so we couldn't drink it. Our visit to the Missouri History Museum was a success. -- Amy D.
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| Testing out their water filtration systems. |
On October 9, 2014 the OLS 6th, 7th, and 8th graders took a field trip to the Art and History Museums of Missouri. At the History Museum, we got to take a tour of Forest Park, build a filter to make dirty water become clear, and just look at all the different things they had on display. When we took a tour of the park, we got to learn all about the 1904 World's Fair. One really interesting fact about the fair was that it had the first Ferris Wheel. Each car on it could hold sixty people. With thirty-six cars on the wheel, it could hold a total of 2160 people! When we went inside, we were able to make a filter to represent cleaning the water from the Mississippi River. We took old soda bottles and put layers of various things such as coffee filters, cotton balls, rocks, sand, and marbles. After we finished doing that fun activity, we just went and looked around at the exhibits they had. There were lots of cool things to look at and if you want to see them, head down to the History Museum! This was a very fun field trip and it was an awesome success! -- Jack S.
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