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.
Video & Recorded Media
Part 1: One Room Schoolhouse: The First Schools in Waukesha. Runtime 5:34 minutes
Part 2: One Room Schoolhouse: Meet the Teachers. Runtime 4:08 minutes
Part 3: One Room Schoolhouse. Runtime 8:06 minutes
Part 4: A Day at School. Runtime 9:25 minutes
My Life as a Pioneer Woman Teacher
Activities & Downloads
Image Detective: Schoolhouses
Recess Games
What’s for Lunch Activity
Primary & Secondary Resources
Mount Horeb, District 1 School
And Beyond, additional sources of information
