Kansas Day in the Classroom
Happy 161st Birthday Kansas!
On January 29, 2022, Kansas will celebrate its 161st birthday! A variety of materials are available here to help make your Kansas Day unique and unforgettable.
Kansas Day for Kansas Schools - This 1882 publication provides information and exercises for use in every Kansas school focusing on Kansas history, geography, poems, songs, and politics together with excerpts from the state constitution, a list of Kansas "firsts," and a history of the origin of Kansas Day.
Lessons, Activities, and Videos for Planning Your Kansas Day
S is for Sunflower: A Kansas Alphabet - a read-along
Join Kansas students from across the state in reading the well-known children’s book “S is for Sunflower: A Kansas Alphabet.”
Other resources on Kansas topics
- Traveling Resource Trunks - Some trunks can be adapted for distance learning.
- Virtual and Video - virtual tours, videos, and Nearpod lessons
- Enrichment Activities - supplemental, make and take, and coloring page activities along with a variety of resource materials
- Read Kansas! Lessons
Kansas Trivia
- Easy questions
- Easy answers
- Moderate difficulty questions
- Moderate difficulty answers
- Difficult questions
- Difficult answers
Materials to Purchase
- A Vote for Susanna: First Woman Mayor - This book tells the story of the nation's first female mayor in a story primary and intermediate students can understand.
- Kansas A to Z - colorfully illustrated for early readers
- Real People. Real Stories. activity books - featuring seven people in Kansas history, with puzzles, games, and stories
- Museum Store Online - offering a variety of other materials available to assist you in planning your Kansas Day commemoration.
