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School Department Conducted by M. E. G. An exact science of education is made like any other science. An accumulation of the results of visual in- struction, as it is being practiced by successful teachers, forms a valuable collection of data from which to draw conclusions and state principles. Marionettes* A Project in Visualization Contributed by Agnes M. Campbell, Supervisor of Art, East View School, Shaker Heights, Cleveland, Ohio.' A N adaptation of Tony Sarg's r-% marionette appealed to us at the outset merely as a unique mode entertainment. We saw that such an itertainment might possess educational due, but the latter did not seem to us ; first to be the outstanding feature, either, it might be said, did we realize te intricacies and the many little details be worked out. It was, however, irough the working out of these very Ltails that we found how much of edu- itional value could be gained from a roject of this kind. We undertook our first marionette low essentially as an art project, with le dramatic possibilities as a secondary onsideration, and the solving of the lechanical difficulties last, as far as our articular class was concerned. The story of Snow White and the )warfs was chosen as simple enough for ur first attempt. The play is worked ut in the Sarg Book of Marionettes, r hich contains many practical sugges- ons for the making of the puppets and ie decorations of the stage. Marionettes had been frequently used junior high schools, but no one in ur system had tried them with younger liildren. We proposed to undertake the roject with a class of fourth graders who were by no means an exceptional class, but might be considered the aver- age in originality and intelligence. With older children, the mechanics of the stage would offer interesting problems to be worked out in manual training classes. For obvious reasons, this was impossible with us, so we purchased sec- ond-hand a discarded stage from a junior high school. The mechanics of lighting and such matters were attended to by an ever-ready and ingenious cus- todian of the building. The decoration of the back and side drops was worked out in our regular art periods, during two lessons a week for several weeks—in all about ten hours' work. The scenery—a woodland and the queen's bedchamber—was made in poster style. It was a pretty sight in these art classes to see four little people (all who could get onto the forty by sixty-inch stage) sitting cross-legged, busily past- ing trees, birds, pebbly paths and dwarfs' houses on the beaver board back-drop. At a large table near by were the rest of the class, cutting out these same trees. They were severe critics of each others' work, rejecting with fine discrimination any piece of work out of harmony in line or idea. Only the best found its way to the stage decorators. As a mode of vis- Editor's Note.—This article is offered as a splendid example of motivated project-teaching, arionettes offer an interesting medium through which various subjects may be visualized, corre- ted and made vital.