Excerpt from The Earth: Its Familiar Objects; With Numerous Maps and Diagrams With Many Illustrations
This book is intended as a Reader in Geography for the use of younger pupils in our public schools.
In its preparation two objects have been kept steadily in view - to encourage a habit of close observation of commonplace facts and everyday occurrences, and to create a lively interest from the very beginning in a subject that is often considered dry and tedious.
The teacher can greatly aid in furthering these two objects by directing the pupils in further nature study, relating incidents obtained from his own experience or from books of travel and adventure, providing for the collection of specimens of various kinds to form a small museum, using pictures which both teacher and pupils may procure, making black-board sketches to illustrate as many points as possible, and by many other devices that may suggest themselves.
The order of topics in the book may be changed where the teacher prefers. This is especially necessary in the case of experiments which will extend over a considerable period of time, such as weather observations and the study of shadows cast by the sun.
The questions at the ends of the chapters are intended as samples of what may be asked, and do not cover all the work to be taken up.
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