A new look at Iowa one-room schools In-depth details and stories of Iowa's ground-breaking Iowa Rural School System and how it anchored rural settlement and the character of Iowa
Book - 2015
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Odebolt, Iowa :
Rural Legacy Project
2015.
- Language
- English
- Corporate Author
- Main Author
- Corporate Author
- Item Description
- Cover title.
Also available online at the Iowa Rural Schools Museum: http://www.iowaruralschoolsmuseum.net/#!resources/c8k2 - Physical Description
- iv, 40 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 x 29 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 37-40).
- ISBN
- 9780986207945
- Introduction and mosaic of Iowa one-room schools
- Background : step back to 1883
- Settlement history and building of Willow Tree
- Overview of the classroom
- Toys and games
- Children's chores and popcorn and progressive farmers
- Music of Professor Charles Fullerton
- School maintenance and outhouses
- Victorian influence
- Treasured books and geography artifacts
- Pump organs and record players
- Recitation and teaching methods
- Lyceums
- 1880's one-room school teacher
- School flag
- Awards and citizenship
- Health concerns and discipline
- PA Lauterbach: county superintendent of schools
- Duties of the country superintendents
- Teachers' salaries and training requirements
- Assimilating German immigrants
- Evolution of writing instruments
- Iowa Rural Schools Museum of Odebolt
- Daily routines to start the school day
- Hand crafted leather becomes outdated
- Electricity replaces kerosene
- A concluding word
- Lessons learned from Iowa's one-room schools
- Foundation and evidence of Iowa's excellence in education
- Author's journey and ideas for researching.