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Project Gutenberg's Home Geography For Primary Grades, by C. C. Long This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Home Geography For Primary Grades Author: C. C. Long Release Date: May 1, 2004 [EBook #12228] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HOME GEOGRAPHY FOR PRIMARY GRADES *** Produced by Charles Aldarondo, Keren Vergon, Ben Courtney and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. HOME GEOGRAPHY FOR PRIMARY GRADES BY C. C. LONG, Ph.D. AUTHOR OF NEW LANGUAGE LESSONS, LESSONS IN ENGLISH, ETC., TO THE TEACHER. Geography may be divided into the geography of the home and the geography of the world at large. A knowledge of the home must be obtained by direct observation; of the rest of the world, through the imagination assisted by information. Ideas acquired by direct observation form a basis for imagining those things which are distant and unknown. The first work, then, in geographical instruction, is to study that small part of the earth's surface lying just at our doors. All around are illustrations of lake and river, upland and lowland, slope and valley. These forms must be actually observed by the pupil, mental pictures obtained, in order that he may be enabled to build up in his mind other mental pictures of similar unseen forms. The hill that he climbs each day may, by an appeal to his imagination, represent to him the lofty Andes or the Alps. From the meadow, or the bit of level land near the door, may be developed a notion of plain and prairie. The little stream that flows past the schoolhouse door, or even one formed by the sudden shower, may speak to him of the Mississippi, the Amazon, or the Rhine. Similarly, the idea of sea or ocean may be deduced from that of pond or lake. Thus, after the pupil has acquired elementary ideas by actual perception, the imagination can use them in constructing, on a larger scale, mental pictures of similar objects outside the bounds of his own experience and observation. To effect this, the teacher should visit with her class places wher
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