What was it like to attend the first schools ever built in Waukesha County? Learn what it was like to be a student in a one room schoolhouse. Students didn’t just learn reading and arithmetic. Find out what else they were taught, and what a day at school was like.
Objectives
Students will use primary resources (photographs) to tell difference across time.
Identify what factors – age, gender, ethnicity – affected a teacher’s responsibilities in early schoolhouses.
My Life as a Pioneer Woman Teacher
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Activities & Downloads
Primary & Secondary Resources
Mount Horeb, District 1 School: https://www.loc.gov/item/2016631164/
New Glarus, Early Schoolhouse: https://www.loc.gov/item/2016631229/
Unidentified Rural School: https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Image/IM66327
And Beyond, additional sources of information
UWM Curriculum Library Historical Collection: https://collections.lib.uwm.edu/digital/collection/ccm/search/searchterm/
Oral history: https://dp.la/item/a2e7488f3b1fbf4ac6ce4e0b4d2a1cb5?q=wisconsin%20one%20room%20schoolhouse
