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Bleeding Kansas
- Type: Traveling Trunk
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Travel trunk containing math activities, music activities, and science activities relating to the Bleeding Kansas period.
Bleeding Kansas - Sparks of War
Chaos in Early Kansas Elections
Your Day in Court: Bleeding Kansas Courtroom Program
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Is it fair to make decisions based on biased laws? This program recreates a court case that was tried at Fort Scott in the 1850s, The issue involved a land squabble between two men on opposite sides of the political spectrum. The court was left to decide the issue based on territorial law that favored the proslavery side based on the fact that proslavery men held the majority in the territorial legislature and decided territorial law in their favor.
1st Kansas Colored Infantry 5th & 6th Grade
1st Kansas Colored Infantry, 3rd & 4th Grade
1st Kansas Colored Infantry 7th & 8th Grade
Scenes from 1858: Fort Scott's Role in Bleeding Kansas
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

In 1858, Fort Scott was the scene of threats, drama, and violence as feuding parties clashed over the issues of freedom, slavery and property rights. People with strong views from all perspectives on the slavery issues clashed at Fort Scott. in many cases, people weren't fighting about slavery, but for their own freedom, as rights, in some cases, were limited by the side in power. In this lesson, students will examine how tensions escalated and discuss what can be done to prevent violence.
El Hombre
Why Visit His Home?
Trading on the Santa Fe Trail
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Overview: Kansas Historical Society offers a highly interactive exploration of life and culture on the trail through the use of a traveling resource trunk. The trunk provides educators with a variety of primary source documents, historical artifacts and photographs. The lessons focus on Kansas and United States history; Most lessons require the physical use of the trunk items.
Ko Kākou Mau Hoaloha i ka Ulu Lā‘au: “Our Friends in the Forest”
History on Trial
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
History Hunters
- Type: Traveling Trunk
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
This activity trunk is designed to introduce learners to the ways that historians, archeologists, and anthropologists use primary resources to learn about the past. Students will role-play by wearing costumes identifying each as an anthropologist, archeologist, or historian.
History and Technology
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
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Historical Characters
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

In this activity, students will learn about nine key participants in the Battles of Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma and the Siege of Fort Brown. They will discover how the personalities of these key leaders helped them during these clashes and influenced their outcome. Students them compare their own personality traits to discover how they are like or different from these leaders.