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Summary and Objective
The students will examine photographs, school books, a diary, and artifacts to learn about early schools in Massachusetts. The students will be divided into small groups to explore the American Centuries website. Later, they will share their findings with the class. The students will understand that early schools are different from schools of today.
Teaching Plan
Step 1.
The teacher will show the students how to examine photographs, school books, a diary, and artifacts on the American Centuries website. The teacher will also help the children look at their own books, journals, writing implements, and classroom photographs.
Step 2.
The teacher and students will start to create a classroom chart comparing schools of the past with schools of today.
Step 3.
The teacher will divide the students into four groups. Each group will be given a blank Venn diagram.
Step 4.
Each group will fill in the Venn diagram highlighting similarties and differences of one of the artifacts (books, classroom photographs, inkwell) and its modern-day counterpart. For example, one group of children will compare modern-day reading lessons and materials to reading materials used in the past. Another group will compare an early diary with their own journal or a modern-day diary. If necessary, the teacher will translate the written materials for the students.
Step 5.
Each group will present their Venn diagram to the class.
Step 6.
The teacher and children will discuss people who have attended schools during the time periods mentioned, such as Susan B. Anthony, Alexander Graham Bell, Robert H. Goodhard, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Clara Barton.
Step 7.
As a follow-up, the teacher and children could also read biographies of influential people whose early education made a difference in their lives.
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