Kansas Schools of the 19th and Early 20th Centuries

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Kansas Schools of the 19th and Early 20th
Centuries
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Nick Zimmerman

• 6th Grade

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Goals Of The Lesson

• Students will learn who attended Kansas schools
  in the early 19th century, where they were
  located, and when and how long students went to
  these schools.
• Students will learn how and why these schools
  changed over time.

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Kansas State Standards, Benchmarks, and
Indicators 1

• Economics Standard 1.K1
• The student explains how scarcity of resources
  requires communities and nations to make choices
  about goods and services (e.g., what food to eat,
  where to settle, how to use land).

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Kansas State Standards, Benchmarks, and
Indicators 2

• History Standard 4.A1
• The student examines a topic in World history to
  analyze changes over time and makes logical
  inferences concerning cause and effect (e.g.,
  spread of ideas and innovation, rise and fall of
  empires).

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Vocabulary Words 1

• Primer A book used by elementary children that
  contained the alphabet, numbers, spelling words,
  etc.
• Hornbook A wooden paddle with one piece of
  paper on it that showed letters, numbers, and
  Bible verses.

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Vocabulary Words - 2

• Blotting Paper Soft paper used to absorb extra
  ink from the paper being written on.
• Cipher Do arithmetic

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Questions For Thought

• Who attended these schools during this time
  period?
• How long was the school term (year)? Why?
• What subjects were taught in these schools?

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The One-Room School

• Made of the materials that were available,
  plentiful, and inexpensive
• Wooded areas cut logs or green sawn lumber
• Eastern and Middle Prairies boards sawn from
  local trees or shipped in from the east
• Western Prairie - Sod

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First Last One-Room Schools In Kansas

• 1820s Small number of schools for Indian
  children on Indian missions
• 1844 Wyandotte Tribe organized school for their
  children (White children were allowed to attend)
• 1990 Dermot School closed. Was in operation
  from 1953 to 1990 (Teacher retired).

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Activity 1

• Students are in groups of three.
• Based on the two previous pictures, compare and
  contrast attending school today and attending
  school in the 19th and late 20th centuries.
• Students write results in a Venn Diagram.

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School Curriculum

• The 3 Rs Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic
  (Reading, Riting, and Rithmetic)
• Hornbooks
• Primers
• Copybooks
• Slates
• Blotting Paper

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Activity 2

• Imagine you live in 19th Century Kansas. You live
  on a farm in a rural area. What tasks involving
  Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic would have to be
  able to do in order to survive? Write down as
  many as you can think of.

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School Term

• 1860s 3 or 4 months
• 1874 5 ½ months (Average)
• 1874 3 months (Legal definition)
• 1903 5 months (Legal definition)
• 1915 7 months (Rural schools)
• 1922 8 months (Legal definition)
• 1922 Month 20 days of 6 hours each
• 1945 9 months (Adopted by city schools)

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Additional Activities - 1

• Nonsense Numbering Game (Onery, twoery, fithery,
  sithery, san, Wheelerbone, whackerbone, inery,
  ninery, tan)
• Read Aloud A One-Room School by Bobbie Kalman

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Additional Activities 2

• What A Whirligig!
• Students, in pairs, research 19th century toys,
  either choose one or create their own one of a
  kind toy, and make/build it
• Materials must be materials that were available
  in 19th Century Kansas
• Demonstrate toy to class when finished

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Assessment

• Venn Diagram
• Participation in class discussions
• Vocabulary Quiz CPS Unit
• Discussion Questions
• Toy Activity

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Bibliography - 1

• Internet Resources
• http//collections.ic.gc.ca/wawanesa/Media/oldscho
  olroom.jpg
• http//hewit.unco.edu/dohist/farmrnch/family/schoo
  ls/one.htm
• http//library.thinkquest.org/J002606/hornbook.jpg

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Bibliography - 2

• http//skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/wichita/sod_carwoo
  d.gif
• http//telematics.ex.ac.uk/virvic/themes/ed_sci/im
  ages/txtbhist.jpg
• http//www.ckrumlov.cz/obr/mesto/histor/3163b.jpg
• http//www.judgeslodging.org.uk/education/Pages/my
  stery_objects3c.html

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Bibliography - 3

• http//www.library.pitt.edu/libraries/is/enroom/ch
  apbooks/images/94f72.jpg

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Bibliography - 4

• Kalman, B. (1994). A One-Room School. New
  York, NY Crabtree Publishing.
• Rodecap, V.E. (Ed.). (1993). The Country
  Schoolteacher A Kansas Legacy. Holton, KS Bell
  Graphics.
• Samuelson, W.G. (2000). One Room Country
  Schools Of Kansas. Emporia, KS Chester Press.