Story by Carson Kerlin, Junior Reporter at Eisenhower Elementary

Good afternoon. This is Carson Kerlin reporting to you from Eisenhower Elementary School in Warsaw. The fourth grade went on a field trip to our state capital, Indianapolis, on Thursday, April 25. We went to the Indiana State Museum and the Indiana Statehouse.

It was a long school bus ride. We stopped at a school in Lapel on the way down and back for a short break. When we arrived at the museum, we went to a small cafeteria and ate our sack lunches.

After lunch, we broke into small groups with a chaperone to explore the different floors of the museum. Level one was natural history and our group enjoyed the naturalist’s lab and the mastodon skeleton. Level two was cultural history. We spent the most time there and we liked the Foucault pendulum that tells time by knocking down small pegs. This level also contained Civil War exhibits and displays about the Underground Railroad.

Level three has the changing exhibits galleries. When we were there, one was about the life and eath of movie actor James Dean, who was from Indiana. The other side was entitled The Lincolns: Five Generations of an American Family.

We walked along the canal to the Statehouse and went through security. We walked around the first floor past Governor Mike Pence’s office. There were camera men and reporters outside his office.

On the second floor, we looked into the supreme courtroom. On the third floor, we sat in the balconies overlooking the House of Representatives and the Senate. The inside architecture was amazingly beautiful, especially the giant dome.

We went back to the museum and walked around the outside walls to see the 92 county plaques. We located the Kosciusko County plaque which was shaped like an egg but looked like a globe.

This was a very educational experience for our students. If you have not been to the Indiana State Museum or to the Indiana Statehouse, I would certainly recommend that you go.

This is Carson Kerlin signing off from StaceyPageOnline.com