We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.
Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.
24 Visual Education
the sun at the time of our equinox when it rises in the east, passes overhead at noon and sets in the west. On each imaginary journey plan to call attention to the great differences in climate. Little by little, by experiences that are as nearly like those they would have in actual travel as we can make them, the child will accumulate concepts that are essential to the further study of geography. These individual clear concepts will be the basis in later study for a scientific understanding of geography.
Later, go among people living in a high mountainous country or to people on the coast. Include a visit to the island dwellers, like those in Samoa or Hawaii, or spend a year, in imagination, with the Japanese or Chinese, coming back at last to a prosperous American farm. Finish with an enthusiastic study of life in our own country, not forgetting the play and recreation of those who must be engaged for a good part of the time in the cultivation of the fields or in the harvesting of crops.
The possibilities of sound educational work in visiting one after another of these distinctly different types of homes are indeed remarkable. This kind of work could well serve as the basis for a year's course of study in geography with children in the third or fourth grade.
Toward the end of the year, an international carnival might be held, with the children impersonating in costume the people of the various nations they have visited. Close this carnival with a review of the motion picture films used in the study of the several homes. Geography would then become a live subject, the most alive of any subject in the elementary school curriculum. These first lessons are a study of homes and of the geographic conditions surrounding them.
Wallace W. Atwood, Professor of Physiography, Harvard University.