Category 1
Who was the German educator that developed the idea for kindergarten?
Friedrich Froebel
These schools give same education to people from different levels of society.
Common Schools
Nina has learned a skilled trade by watching and helping an expert in that specific trade. Nina is a what?
Apprentice
These were schools in the colonies where students were taught by women in their own homes.
Dame Schools
This education prepares students for many career opportunities in specific trades where skilled workers are needed.
Career and Technical Education
This was the time of business expansion and reform in the United States.
Progressive Era
These were teacher-training schools that prepared men and women with the necessary skills to become teachers.
Normal Schools
This person believed that sensory experiences should come before learning to read and write.
Maria Montessori
This person believed schools should place a greater emphasis on the development of problem solving and critical thinking-learn through real life activities, collaboration and social interaction.
John Dewey
This was the time of business expansion and reform in the United States.
Progressive Era
This was a period of complex economic, technological, and social change in America and worldwide.
Industrial Revolution
What was decided in the Brown vs. Board of Education case?
It overturned the decision for separate but equal facilities.
What was decided in the court case Plessy vs. Ferguson?
It legalized separate but equal facilities
These were flat wooden boards with a handle. The alphabet, prayer and roman numerals were pasted on the board.
Hornbooks
This person started a secondary school in Philadelphia that offered a broad range of subjects. The school was open to anyone who could pay the tuition and attend, regardless of their religious beliefs.
Benjamin Franklin
This Act established federal funds to support vocational education now called career and technical education.
The Smith-Hughes Act of 1917
How was African American Education before the Civil War?
Very few African Americans were able to read and write.
Horace Mann helped influence what type of schools?
Common Schools
True or False: Educated African-Americans set up schools before the Civil War?
False
This person introduced the idea to divide Virginia into smaller districts that were responsible for education, a public system of education. This led to the way public schools are organized.
Thomas Jefferson
This is the physical transformation from a child to an adult capable of reproduction? What is this stage called?
Puberty
This is the rapid increase in height and weight, marking the growth that occurs during adolescents. What is this called?
Growth Spurts
Which is the part of the brain responsible for emotional reaction such as anger, develops early?
Amygdala
This Act gave federal land to establish colleges in every state. These colleges were to provide practical education in agriculture, home economics, and other useful professions to people from all social classes.
The Morrill Act
Which part of the brain regulates emotions and impulse control?
Prefrontal Cortex