LIMA, OH (WLIO) - Johnny Appleseed Metropolitan Park District making a house call today as third graders at Lima's South Science and Technology Magnet School seeing if they can survive in 1825.
The students attended a pioneer camp in November at the Allen County Farm Park. Naturalists visited the class today to test their knowledge of what they had learned. They divided the class into families that had to make decisions on what they needed to bring with them on a trip from Urbana to Lima. It was a lesson to get a better idea of what it was like in Allen County at that time and what they needed to make a homestead.
"You would have to bring an axe head. That's the number one thing that we're going to see if everyone remembers that today. Because without that you can't do anything. This was the Black Swamp, the great black swamp full of trees and that's the first thing that they would have to do is clear the trees for their fields and then build a homestead," explained Doreen Martin, a naturalist at Johnny Appleseed Metropolitan Park District.
Martin says this hands-on learning meets each student at their level and leaves a great impression of what they are learning.
