Read Kansas! Primary - P-18 Understanding Clues from the Past: School Days
This third grade lesson allows the students to work with both primary and secondary sources. The students will study schools in early Kansas. After reading an expository text on the topic, students will connect clues from primary sources to the text. This will introduce students to the idea that historians use clues from primary sources to interpret the past in secondary sources. The lesson concludes with the students retelling the story in their own words. This lesson can be completed in one period or can be broken into sections done over several days. Select each image to see a PDF with the front and back of each card.
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Kansas History, Government, and Social Studies Standards:
Standard #4: Societies experience continuity and change over time.
- 4.1: The student will recognize and evaluate continuity and change over time and its impact on individuals, institutions, communities, states, and nations.
Kansas College and Career Ready Standards:
- RI.3.2: The student determines the main ideas of a text; recounts the key details and explains how they support the main idea.
- RI.3.7: The student uses information gained from illustrations (e.g., maps, photographs) and the words in a text to demonstrate understanding of the text (e.g., where, when, why, and how key events occur).
