This evening I ran across an old school assignment.

Way back in 5th grade we studied Iowa History.

One of the projects was to put together a booklet of Iowa History maps, essays and other forms of information. This was one project that I remember very well as I really enjoy studying History.

Plus, Mrs. Messerschmitt who taught the class was one of my favorite teachers.

Here is an example of one of the pages. Here is the Goldfinch, the State Bird of Iowa. The next page had the State Flag, and you can see if bleeding through in the picture above.

I wrote a short essay about Fort Madison which included a diagram of the fort and a little bit of the history. There were several versions of the essay. I don’t remember why. Perhaps I wrote one that was too long and had to shorten it for a display version. In any case, you can see one of my poor drawings 🙂

This image was  not in the booklet, but it did have a list of different Indian Chiefs and what they were famous for. I will save the list for a future post.

To learn more about this chief, see my post: Chief Wapello

I also have written another post about Iowa History: John Brown in Iowa

Looking through the booklet brought back some good memories. The next year we had moved to Kansas and there Kansas History was covered in 6th grade. I am glad that it was not the other way around. I really enjoyed the State History classes.

Do you remember learning about the history of your state?

Steven