Girl with Headphones

She seems very focused on her studies....

Pick Me!!!

This group of kids from the 70's look excited to be in school. This slide is from an extensive set of school pictures from November 1971. Perhaps the photographer worked in education. Maybe working on an advanced degree in eduction....

Multimedia - 70's Style

When I first held this slide up the the light, I thought the kids were using an one of the original Mac computers, but that is just my bias. It is interesting that this use multimedia-based eduction from 43 years ago is very similar to something we would see in a classroom in 2014. ...

It is 5:05 Somewhere

Teaching kids to tell time. From the "Classroom Scenes" set of slides from Lot 2....

Lollypop Shop

Students hard at work learning the basics of capitalism. ...

Using the Abacus

Learning the basic of arithmetic using an abacus. ...

Lunchtime

My son thought this lunch looked disgusting. To me, this looks like a much more healthy and substantial meal than schoolkids get today.

A quick Google search for Koontz Dairy indicates this may have been taken in the Baltimore area.

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Art Lessons

Young students hard at work making art....

Pre-School Music

Looks like a fun activity in this picture from November 1971. Gotta love the 70's fashions, these are some hip kids....

Making Time

I read an article the other day that mentioned school kids today don't learn how to tell time from an analog clock. Elementary age children in 1971 did, as this slide shows. ...

School Lunch

This lovely young lady is enjoying her lunch, and getting some spaghetti sauce on her blouse....

Cognitive Puzzles

These 2 boys are hard at work using puzzle blocks. Nice shot up through the glass tabletop....

Filmstrip Library

A filmstrip library, on what looks like a mobile ("Bookmobile") library. ...

Soup for Lunch

I showed this picture to my grade school kids and they thought it both looked disgusting and looked better than their school lunch. Looks pretty good to me....