The Educational screen (c1922-c1956])

Page 18 The Educational Screen Photosraphs Tell Stories Learn how to make your camera become a skilled story teller. It's all in understanding its capacities and limitations. There is joy in making good photographs . . . Read how others do it. Subscribe to that beau- tiful, monthly magazine. Camera CraFt It's devoted to photography. $2.50 a year. Send 25 cents for a late copy. CAMERA CRAFT PUBLISHING COMPANY 703 Market Street, San Francisco, California Do You Teach Geography? IB F yoB teach or direct the teachinc of GeoemphT. jroa will I want to investieate The Journal of Geography, an illustrated monthly maarazine owned by the National Council of Ge«cr>- phy Teachers, and pnbliahed especially for teachers. THE JOURNAL GIVES YOU—Supplementary material for atu- dents and teachers . . . confidence by enablinc you to know the best and thus keep several leagues ahead of the non-sub- scribers . . . success to teachers and students who sincerely want it. If you are not familiar with this splendid maarazine pin this ad to your letterhead and the next copy will b« sent to yon FREE of chare*. THE JOURNAL OF GEOGRAPHY 3333 Elston Ave. Chicago, III. after educators, members of museum staffs, and area chiefs of the exposition had developed syllabi and advantageous tours. "It is the first time in the history of education that any exposition has . done this work for students. The material and the opportunity for its study in this manner are in ac- cord with the newest ideas in educational progress." American Childhood (November, '34) "Selling Education through the Camera." by Mabel Osier Priest. With the thought that in this visual-minded age, school life should be pictured for parents and friends, Mrs. Priest was asked by the Editor to make clear to teachers a simple technique for pre- senting pictorially dramatic situations in school ac- tivities. A beautifully illustrated article results, in which the simplest directions are given for using a camera in the schoolroom. Elementary School Journal (October, '34) "Free Services Offered Children by Museums and Art Galleries. II," by Rupert Peters. Service brought to the schools is discussed in the second article of this series. The boards of education in Detroit, Cleveland, and St. Louis maintain museums for lending materials to schools. The Pittsburgh board of education pays $15,000 annually to the Carnegie Museum to provide natural science loan materials for schools. The De- troit Children's Museum lends a large collection of art reproductions, mounted birds and small mam- mals, costume dolls, minerals, pottery, baskets and textiles to the schools. The museums of Cleveland and St. Louis also serve schools with slides and films. St. Louis has acquired specimens from three world's fairs and lends objects in preference to pictures. Eight employees are required for transporting the museum collection in Newark, New Jersey. The American Museum of Natural History in New York City uses eight trucks for a similar service. The Field Museum in Chicago sends a small diorama every two weeks to each school. The Philadelphia Commercial Museum has placed from one to twenty cabinets of exhibits in nearly every school of the state through state aid. As a rule, the lending collections are functioning more fully than the class trips to the museums. In some cities members of the museum staff visit schools upon request and give talks illustrated with slides or motion pictures. The museum of Reading, Pa., employs in this manner one man on full time. The Metropolitan Museum of New York City sent a staff member once a quarter in 1933-'4 to speak in every Jr. and Sr. High School in the city. Il- lustrated lectures are often given to children on Saturdays and a story hour is provided on Sundays. The Toledo Museum of Art often has an audience of 1.500 children. Some museums carry on club work for children during the summer when hobbies are developed. {Concluded on page 24)