Presentations
The late Mrs. E.C. Ent had offered slide presentations about one-room schools. 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 [email protected].
50-Minute Early School Topic Presentation Titles:
50-Minute Early School Topic Presentation Titles:
- A Commence Curriculum: The work of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (show and tell & museum cases found in one-room schools)
- The School of the Air: Speaking to Midwestern Country School Children (radio education movement to teach rural classes)
- 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)
- The ‘Kid Hack’ Early Horse Drawn School Trucks (early school buses and transportation to rural schools)
- 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)
- Recreate the Visual Stereographs Used in Early Schools (use of 3-D visual teaching devices in the schoolroom)
- Pump-Up The Volume! Antique Reed Organs in the One-Room School (how reed/pump organs were used in the early schools)
- 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)