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Title:
| Orphan Trains, 1854-1929 |
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Description:
| Read historical accounts of the orphan trains that brought children from New York City and the East Coast to the Midwest. Includes personal accounts, photographs, and booklists. There are also photographs of New York City at the beginning of the 20th century. |
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Grade Level:
| 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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Resource Links:
| Orphan Trains to Kansas
This site is filled with stories, biographies, and images of people who were part of the orphan trains that arrived in Kansas. It also includes a version of the adoption form used. Much of the reading is advanced.
Lewis Hine Gallery
Lewis Hine used his camera to document tenements and child labor in New York City in the early 1900s.
The Orphan Train Collection
There is a list of orphan train stories.
Railroad Maps, 1828-1900
This is the Library of Congress' collection of U.S. rail maps.
Iowa Orphan Train Project
Three Iowa third-grade classes share their orphan train project on the Web. Click on "Orphan Train Resources" for information about orphan train books, videos, and organizations.
Indenture/Adoption Forms
See examples of adoption forms used for children who rode the orphan trains.
Scholastic: Joan Lowery
This is a list of books by children's author Joan Lowery. Includes descriptions of her books about children who rode on an orphan train.
PBS: The Orphan Trains
This is the official site for a PBS documentary about orphan trains. Click on "Program Transcript" to read the interviews. Contact PBS about getting a copy of the video.
SuccessLink: Friendly Letter to Ma
This is a lesson plan for the book "A Family Apart" by Joan Lowery Nixon. Students pretend they are a character in the book and write a letter.
Education World: Professional Development Article
Read how a Missouri eMINTS classroom had a videoconference with a New York classroom and discussed the orphan trains.
The New York Missouri Connection
Click on the picture to enter this site and learn more about a classroom project about the orphan trains. Click on "Teacher Resources" for lesson plans and activity ideas. NOTE: This site includes a guestbook.
The Orphan Train Movement
View a picture of children on a train. Read more about how the orphan train movement began.
Quia: Orphan Train
Try this online quiz about orphan trains.
eThemes Resource: Writing: Historical Fiction
Learn more about the genre of historical fiction. There are definitions and listings of recommended children's books, plus lesson plans and classroom activities. Includes links to eThemes Resources on various historical fiction books.
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Education Standards:
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MO Standards:
1.1, 1.7, 1.9, 1.10, 3.1, 3.6, 3.8, 4.3, 4, 6, 2, 5, 6
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