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Aim The aim in this book has been to present such subjects as the author wishes his own little son to know. Plan. This is a First Book, telling the story of the earth as THE HOME OF MAN. The pictures show how fully the book deals with PEOPLE grade. Pupils ready for a simple third reader can begin the study of this book. The text is graded with care, and leads upward by easy steps scope. This work covers two years of study. One year may be given to pages 1 to 68 teachers may enrich the course by oral lessons on nature studies pictures. This is the most richly illustrated school book ever sent out to young pupils. The pictures are the highest type of costly wood engraving. Nearly all subjects are photographs, with child life as the central thought. To pupils of this age, good pictures and maps often teach more than text maps. This book lays much stress on the study of location of important places. With this in view the maps have been made very simple. They outline boldly the facts to be impressed on the memory and do not bury them in myriads of details. Two simple devices, both as old as maps themselves, are used to show directions. The words north, south, east and west are plainly printed in the margins of the colored maps. Little compass arrows, all pointing northward, are also printed at instructive points on the same maps. By turning to pages 70, 122 and 139, and finding three or four arrows on each, the reader can see how useful and impressive these devices are. May we not also think of the little child and assume that he will get a better lesson, at this age, from the arrows and the words north, south, east and west than from the study of degrees, parallels and meridians? Helps after each lesson will be found questions to aid in the study of the text. The questions direct the mind to leading thoughts to teachers. Kindly read with care the notes on
Présentation de l'éditeur
This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character recognition) technology to the process, we believe this leads to sub-optimal results (frequent typographical errors, strange characters and confusing formatting) and does not adequately preserve the historical character of the original artifact. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original work, there are occasionally instances where imperfections such as blurred or missing pages, poor pictures or errant marks may have been introduced due to either the quality of the original work or the scanning process itself. Despite these occasional imperfections, we have brought it back into print as part of our ongoing global book preservation commitment, providing customers with access to the best possible historical reprints. We appreciate your understanding of these occasional imperfections, and sincerely hope you enjoy seeing the book in a format as close as possible to that intended by the original publisher.
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