Kansas Day in the Classroom
Happy 162nd Birthday Kansas!
On January 29, 2023, Kansas will celebrate its 162nd birthday! A variety of materials are available here to help make your Kansas Day unique and unforgettable.
Kansas Day Edventure 2023 - Enjoy a variety of presentations by Kansas Historical Society staff, and other organizations from around Kansas, in a virtual Kansas Day event offered through Wichita Public Schools. Kansas Day Edventure is free and open to schools throughout the state.
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
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
- Color Kansas Characters - poster/coloring book with brief biographies
- Kansas A to Z - colorfully illustrated for early readers
- Kansas Symbols Coloring Book
- 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.