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Group Size: We suggest that groups larger than 60 students divide their visit between
Campus Martius Museum and Ohio River Museum with one half visiting one museum then
switching to the other.
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Worksheet: Clues to Campus Martius - Main Level
(September and October)
(85 k)
Students will find "Treasure Hunt" items from within Campus Martius'
main level.
Worksheet: Clues to Campus Martius - Lower Level
(September and October)
(74 k)
Students will find "Treasure Hunt" items from within Campus Martius'
lower level.
Tour Self-guided: Early Settlement (September through April)
(1,468 k)
The earliest settlers who left evidence in Marietta were the Adena and Hopewell cultures
who built their mounds in the Muskingum and Ohio River valleys. The American Indians,
then the Europeans and Colonial settlers succeeded these earliest cultures. The upper
level of the museum tells their stories. This exhibit speaks of the Northwest Territory and
the founding of Marietta in 1788.
Tour Self-guided: Migration Walk (September through April)
(56 k)
This exhibit, Paradise Found and Lost, explores two waves of migration that shaped Ohio's
history: The 1850 to 1910 movement of many rural Ohioans to the cities; and the 1910 to 1970
influx of Appalachian people from Kentucky and West Virginia into Ohio's industrial centers
such as Dayton and Akron.
Tour Guided: Putnam House (September and October)
(49 k)
After viewing a video recapping the importance of the Northwest Ordinance, students will
be guided through the Putnam House - the only surviving dwelling of Campus Martius. The
tour highlights the life of Rufus Putnam, the first surveyor general of the United States in the
18th and 19th century Marietta. Students may tour the Museum on their own as well as the
Ohio Company Land Office.
Program: Achievement Advantage (February 7, 8, 9 and February 14, 15, 16)
(57 k)
Add $1.00 program fee and $3.00 admission per student.
Engage in hands-on stations as a realistic way to help prepare for the
achievement tests. Students will experience the following activities:
calculate measurement at the pioneer food station and participate in an
economic lesson relative to the early settlers, enhance awareness of
cultural practices and products by identifying prehistoric culture and
American Indian artifacts, make purchases at the General Store while
learning to count money, and using scientific inquiry to select the
proper tools to measure and record length in metric and English units at
the animal tracks station.
Workshop: Assembly Line (September through April)
(54 k)
Students become active participants in this workshop which features the industrial period of
the 1940s. Is it faster to build widgets on an assembly line or make them individually.
Workshop: Early 19th Century Toys (September through April)
(58 k)
In this Minds in Motion workshop students learn to compare and contrast the earliest 19th
century toys with the modern day they know. This program provides hands-on experience.
Workshop: All Aboard the Train (September through April)
(60 k)
In this Minds in Motion workshop students learn about a form of transportation, passenger
trains, that were used by Ohioans during their migration from the country to the city during
the last half of the 19th century.
Workshop: Pioneer Living (September through April)
(53 k)
With this workshop, the teacher can choose two of 6 topics to supplement
the teaching of Marietta or American history of frontier settlement
following the Revolutionary War. Students will have the opportunity to
make a take home product.
For additional tours and programs, see the Ohio River Museum.
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