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Lesson Plans
Below you will find links to resources related to topics in the Olathe: The City Beautiful film series. These resources were selected with teachers in mind to help extend learning opportunities when viewing the videos in class. For document analysis worksheets and information on how to use primary sources in the classroom, visit the National Archives.
A Place Called Home
Resources about the Mahaffies, Territorial Kansas, and settling Olathe.
Accompanies Olathe – The City Beautiful, Volume I
The Bricklayer
Resources about the story of the building of Kansas City road and transportation in the 1920s.
Accompanies Olathe – The City Beautiful, Volume I
Renaissance Man
A collection of resources about early radio history and Marshall Ensor.
Accompanies Olathe – The City Beautiful, Volume I
Out of the Mud
Resources about George Hodges and the Progressive movement in Kansas.
Accompanies Olathe – The City Beautiful, Volume I
I've Filled My Bill - William Quantrill
Resources about Quantrill’s Raid and Territorial Kansas.
Accompanies Olathe – The City Beautiful, Volume II
The Lynching of Bert Dudley
The lynching of Bert Dudley made the newspaper across the United States. The Chronicling America website from the Library of Congress allows a search of a variety of papers published between 1836-1922. Do a search for Bert Dudley, then compare and contrast the details included and left out in each of these articles and analyze how that affects the impact of the story.
Accompanies Olathe – The City Beautiful, Volume III
A Foundation to Build Upon - JC Nichols
Resources about JC Nichols.
Accompanies Olathe – The City Beautiful, Volume III
Broken Silence
Resources about the Kansas School for the Deaf.
Accompanies Olathe – The City Beautiful, Volume III
Flying Jayhawks
A collection of resources about the Olathe Naval Air Station.
Accompanies Olathe – The City Beautiful, Volume IV
There Shall Come a Day
Resources about civil rights in Olathe and Kansas.
Accompanies Olathe – The City Beautiful, Volume V
We Belong
Resources about Black Bob and the Shawnee in Olathe and Johnson County.
Accompanies Olathe – The City Beautiful, Volume V