Excerpt from Practical Exercises in Geography, Vol. 1: Our Own Country and Her Possessions
The Series, Practical Exercises in Geography, Book One, Our Own Country and Her Possessions, and Book Two, South America and Eurasia, is written for the upper elementary grades. These manuals have been prepared primarily because there is an emphatic and widespread dissatisfaction with the results of geography teaching, especially in grammar grades. The authors have attempted to present and organize the subject matter of geography in a way that will secure more satisfactory results.
In preparing this series the following conditions have been taken into consideration: (1) Grade teachers are overworked and lack time and energy to evaluate and organize the lessons which textbooks contain. (2) Textbooks are condensed and encyclopedic; therefore text materials, without careful selection and organization by the teacher, introduce irrelevant matter, scatter the attention, and tend to reduce all subjects to a dead line; this is in the nature of the case, and is no condemnation of the textbook. (3) Good results make imperative the disentanglement and greater logical development of topics that are genuinely educative. The exercises in this manual furnish motives for study, develop initiative, and insure interest by challenging the mind through the presentation of interesting problems. (4) Indefinite rote work often characterizes formal text lessons. These exercises require thought and reason, and organize geographical material in a way that makes it interesting and meaningful.
This series is not a substitute for a textbook. The exercises cannot well be used independently. In preparing the work, many textbooks have been consulted on almost every exercise and problem; hence the manuals may be used with any text.
A most important consideration in this method of presentation is that it teaches pupils how to study. The present status of geography work in the public schools leads to an abuse of books, rather than to the most important acquisition, how to use and study them. The exercises in this manual require the use of textbooks and reference books for definite ends and purposes. These exercises not only direct the way, but make the observance of a rational method imperative.
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