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Department of Beginnings
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tical way. The type plan is used, making it possible to illustrate a great variety of topics, and to develop in the child a direct connection with the actualities of the earth and the multitude of activities of man as related to it.
"We placed the entire equipment of stereoscopes and stereographs in the school. The Teacher's Manual, edited by Professor F. M. McMurry of Teachers' College, was a most helpful instrument in the preparation of single lessons and of series of lessons planned according to the Herbartian method, both in type and in project form. The equipment is of untold value and is in constant use. The great interest in the stereographs continues unabated, because they present the facts so clearly and impressively through individual and intensive study of the picture. * * *
"I am enclosing you sample project lessons which are for use with the 'World Visualized' equipment, and which have been employed quite successfully by the teachers of the grades. This is the kind of lesson plan used in most classrooms here in the school, and I am sure that with the added value of the motion picture results will be obtained that will be of immeasurable good.
"I thought you might be interested in
them as showing that we mean to take
advantage of all illustrative material."
DOGS
(For Second Year Students)
Aim :
To teach the kindly friendliness of dogs, and their care by man. Preparation and Presentation:
1. Dogs owned by children :
Collie.
Terrier.
French Poodle.
Greyhound.
Bulldog.
Spaniel.
2. Duties :
Carrying mail. Tending sheep. Drawing loads. Watching houses.
3. Appearance : (a) Head.
Size. Eyes. Ears. Nose.
(b) Body. Size. Coat.
a. Shaggy
b. Smooth.
(c) Feet.
1. Number.
Number of toes on back feet. Number of toes on front feet.
2. Method of walking.
Pet dog of an old soldier. A little girl and her faithful dog. A dog of the Far North. Esquimaux sledge dogs. After a hard run with the pack. The little dog in Norway. A dog in Lapland.
A dog drawing milk cart in Holland. Dutch dog team.
"World-famed monastery and dogs at Great St. Bernard Pass.
Application:
a. How we should treat dogs :
Kindly.
Gently.
b. Result of good treatment :
Watch dogs.
Helpers.
Friends.
A TRIP BY WATER AND LAND (For Fourth Year Students) Aim:
A review showing — Great Markets — people, natural resources, occupations, transportation by water in taking a trip from Philadelphia to Minneapolis.
Preparation:
Map of United States, showing —
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, New York, Mississippi Valley, Mississippi River, New Orleans, St. Louis, St. Paul, Minneapolis.
Clothing needed for climatic changes, as shown in stereographs on Philadelphia, Blossoms, Florida, Palm Beach.
Presentation:
1. Trip to New Orleans —
(a) By rail from Philadelphia to New York, then
Stereographs : Ferries. Steamship. Statue. Harbor.
(b) To sea:
Looking back at New York. Bridge. Warcraft. (Concluded on page 70)