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    15 Objects Found Inside a 1970s School Desk

    Discover 15 objects found inside a 1970s school desk

  • September 1990 school lunch menu calendar featuring a black-and-white illustration of a person and a child flying a kite.

    11 Photos of School Lunch Menus Over the Years

    School has changed in numerous ways over the last several decades, and it doesn’t seem like it’ll stop any time soon. Dating back to the 1960s, it seemed as if everything were made from scratch. These school lunch menus from…

  • The interior of a school bus looking toward the back emergency exit door, with brown vinyl seats on either side.
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    14 Features Every American School Bus Used to Include

    Check out 15 Features Every American School Bus Used to Include

  • A wooden index card box labeled “Index Cards” sits next to a stack of cards and three sample cards featuring notes on vocabulary, important historical dates, and literature themes.

    15 Things Teachers Used Before the Digital Classroom

    Before smartboards and online assignments became part of education, teachers relied on simple tools. These familiar objects helped educators explain lessons and make learning possible long before laptops and tablets became classroom instruments. For teachers who worked before the digital…

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    15 Classic School Lunches That Dominated the 1970s

    For kids growing up in the 1970s, lunchtime was often a simple matter. Lunches featured sandwiches, fruit, snacks, and the occasional sweet treat tucked into a lunchbox. Some of these lunches have become unmistakably tied to the decade. They were…

  • Two sheets of brown paper are shown on top. Below, three books are covered with similar brown paper, demonstrating book covers made from brown paper sheets.
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    15 School Supplies From the 1980s That Kids Wouldn’t Recognize Today

    Walk into a classroom today, and you will find laptops, tablets, and smartboards where chalk dust used to be. Back-to-school shopping in the 1980s meant something completely different: a very specific list of tools, gadgets, and notebooks that every kid…

  • Black and white photo of Indigenous children sitting in rows at desks in a classroom, looking forward with serious expressions. Papers and books are on bulletin boards behind them.

    18 Classroom Photos That Show How Much School Has Changed

    Explore 18 nostalgic classroom photos that show how much schools have changed over the decades, from chalkboards and wooden desks to modern technology and today’s classrooms.

  • A vintage photo shows a teacher seated at a desk with books and papers, surrounded by smiling students in casual 1970s attire in a classroom with a chalkboard and holiday decorations.
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    Inside the Classroom: 15 Photos of School Life From 1975–1979

    Step through the doors of any American classroom in the late 1970s and you’d find a world that looks both familiar and completely foreign.