Young Yorkers Leaflet: Rural Education in New York State — One-Room Schools of the 1840s

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Teacher Edition, Page 1		 Description: Students compare the educational experience of mid-19th-century rural students with their own school experience.

Learning Goals:

  • Identify several items found in a typical one-room school of the 1840s
  • Discuss the roles of the teacher and the students during the 1840s
  • Describe several subjects taught during the 1840s
  • Discuss several forms of punishment commonly used by teachers in the mid-19th century
  • Compare and contrast a typical school day in a one-room school of the 1840s with a typical school day today
  • Make generalizations about changes in education since the middle of the 19th century

Number of pages: 14 (teacher edition – 6; student edition – 8)

PDF files available for download:

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