Kansas Museum of History

Risk Takers and Pizza Makers: Kansas Entrepreneurs

4th Grade

Who wants pizza? Everybody! That's what made Pizza Hut such a success.

Risk Takers and Pizza Makers shares the contributions of famous Kansas entrepreneurs highlighted in the museum gallery, including James McCoy, Fred Harvey, Walter Anderson and the Carney Brothers of Pizza Hut fame.

At the end of the tour students will get to make their personal-size pizza using the "standardized" techniques learned on tour. While the pizza is baking students will be challenged to "piece" together the stories of other Kansas entrepreneurs: Clyde Cessna, Gordon Parks, Walter Chrysler, Takeru Higuchi, and Olive Ann Beech.

This tour fulfills grade specific standards and provides pre-and post-visit material to help teachers meet those standards.

History: Benchmark 1, Indicator 1: The student researches the contributions made by notable Kansans in history (e.g., Dwight David Eisenhower, Alf Landon, Amelia Earhart, George Washington Carver, Robert Dole, William Allen White, Langston Hughes, Carry A. Nation, Black Bear Bosin, Gordon Parks, Clyde Cessna, Charles Curtis, Walter Chrysler, Wyatt Earp).

Economics: Benchmark 2, Indicator 1: The student defines the characteristics of an entrepreneur and gives an example of someone who shows those characteristics (e.g., risk taker, innovator, gets together all resources needed to produce a product).

Writing: Benchmark 4, Indicator 3: The student uses details to support the author's position. (Ideas and Content: prewriting, drafting, revising: N, E, T, P)

Writing: Benchmark 4, Indicator 11: The student writes to convey opinion and to convince the reader to agree with the author. (Voice: prewriting, drafting, revising: N, E, T, P)

Length of tour: approximately one and one-half hour, with a maximum of one tour per hour.

Number of students in a group: for the best experience, we recommend no more than 25 students per tour

Registration: Submit an online tour request; group rates are available with a minimum two weeks advanced registration

For more information: contact 785-272-8681, ext. 414; education@kshs.org.