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Exhibit
Upper Elementary & Middle School Investigation
The Vanished Classroom
Can you uncover the classroom practices that time left behind?
Classrooms have changed enormously over the last two hundred years. Some practices that once seemed normal have disappeared from schools completely. Step inside the vanished classroom to investigate nine teaching relics from the 1800s and discover what eventually replaced them.
Student Directions
How to investigate each exhibit
Visit each exhibit and study the image and clues. First, identify the classroom practice or tool. Next, decide what problem it was meant to solve. Finally, choose the practice or technology that eventually replaced it.
You may revisit exhibits before submitting your final answers.
1
Identify it
Use the clues and image area to decide what the practice or tool is.
2
Find its purpose
Choose the problem this practice was meant to solve.
3
Track its replacement
Select what classrooms use today in its place.
Nine Classroom Relics
Choose an exhibit to investigate
Each desk opens a three-part investigation. Finished exhibits stay available for review.
Final Score
Your Vanished Classroom Result
History Detective Reflection