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Presentations

Mrs. E.C. Ent has offered slide presentations about one-room schools.  She also will bring artifacts to show others interested in schoolhouses. Her daughter, Dr. Veronica Ent, has presented several sessions on various curriculum tools used in the one-room school.  Below are some of the presentations that could be shared with your organization upon email request to concordschool1848@gmail.com.

50-Minute Early School Topic Presentation Titles:
  1. A Commence Curriculum: The work of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (show and tell & museum cases found in one-room schools)
  2. The School of the Air: Speaking to Midwestern Country School Children (radio education movement to teach rural classes)
  3. Adventures in Science: Pre-Sputnik, Country School Science Series that 21st Century Schools are Modeling Today! (A discussion of early school science curriculum with today STEM/STEAM movement)
  4. The ‘Kid Hack’ Early Horse Drawn School Trucks (early school buses and transportation to rural schools)
  5. The Victrola in Rural Schools: Integrated Music Instruction in our Early Schools (use of the schoolhouse Victor and other early phonographs in the one-room school)
  6. Recreate the Visual Stereographs Used in Early Schools (use of 3-D visual teaching devices in the schoolroom)
  7. Pump-Up The Volume! Antique Reed Organs in the One-Room School (how reed/pump organs were used in the early schools)
  8. One-Room, One-School, and One-Lesson: Methods for Engaging College Students in Authentic Early American Curriculum Research (how to connect a college teacher education course to the one-room school)



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