Notable Kansans

Happy Kansas Day!

Kansas became the 34th state on January 29, 1861. Today January 29th is known as Kansas Day, and it is a great time to study notable Kansans.

Amelia Earhart maze
Barnstorming Kansas - Use this marble game to talk about aviation pioneers and barnstormers in Kansas including Charles Lindbergh, Katherine Stinson, and Albin Longren.
Famous Kansans trading cards - find more than 150 people, known and lesser known, connected with Kansas history
Kansans Breaking Barriers - poster highlighting some female Kansas politicians
John Brown - Tragic Prelude activity page, Intermediate Grades, Middle School
History Lab: John Brown's Body
Samuel Crumbine - Paper Drinking Cup and Public Health
Martin and Osa Johnson Flipbook
Ron Evans, Osa Johnson, and Clyde Tombaugh - American Exploration
Dwight D. Eisenhower - History Lab: I Like Ike
Dwight D. Eisenhower - The Man From Abilene
Wizard of Oz stick puppets

Primary Grades

Intermediate Grades

I-3 Famous Kansans - William Allen White, Blackbear Bosin, Clyde Cessna, Walter Chrysler, Charles Curtis, Amelia Earhart, Georgia Neese Gray, Langston Hughes, Hattie McDaniel, Gordon Parks, Susanna Madora Salter, and Laura Ingalls Wilder
I-12 Piecing Together the Story of Glenn Cunningham: A Kansas Champion
Carry A. Nation: "The Famous and Original Bar Room Smasher" - lessons created for a Carry A Nation exhibit

Middle School

M-14 Territorial Characters - Charles Robinson, Sara Robinson, James Lane, Andrew Reeder, John Brown, Clarina Nichols, Samuel Jones, David Atchison, Julia Louisa Lovejoy, and John Ritchie
M-28 Populism and Governor Lewelling
M-30 Meet the Reformers - Mary Elizabeth Lease, Samuel Crumbine, William Allen White, Mary Richards O'Hare, and Charles M. Sheldon
M-33 Notable Kansans: The Rest of the Story - Sven Birger Sandzen, Amelia Earhart, Martin and Osa Johnson, Glenn Cunningham, Walter Chriysler, Langston Hughes, John Steuart Curry, Dwight Eisenhower, Alf Landon, and Arthur Capper
M-38 Gordon Parks: First Survival, Then Success
Carry A. Nation: "The Famous and Original Bar Room Smasher" - lessons created for a Carry A Nation exhibit
Dear Wife & children every one - John Brown lesson from Territorial Kansas Online
This Guilty Land - John Brown lesson from Territorial Kansas Online

High School

Carry A. Nation: "The Famous and Original Bar Room Smasher" - lessons created for a Carry A Nation exhibit
Kansas National Guard in World War I - Uses photos taken by Captain James Clark Hughes and excerpts from My Story of the 130th F.A., A.E.F. by Captain William P. MacLean, both officers from Topeka and in the 130th Field Artillery Brigade of the Kansas National Guard and later part of the American Expeditionary Force's 35th Division. Lesson Plan, Primary Sources PowerPoint

Cool Things Podcast - get an insider's perspective through the stories related to interesting artifacts chosen by curators at the Kansas Museum of History
Kansapedia - online encyclopedia containing thousands of Kansas related topics
Kansas Memory — digital archives of primary sources in the Kansas Historical Society collections
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. (available for purchase through the online Museum Store)