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Title: Construction Work for Rural and Elementary Schools

Author: Virginia McGaw

Release Date: April 5, 2009 [EBook #28501]

Language: English

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Construction Work
for
Rural and Elementary
Schools

BY

VIRGINIA McGAW

Teacher in the Elementary School
of Baltimore

A. FLANAGAN COMPANY
CHICAGO

COPYRIGHT 1909
BY
A. FLANAGAN COMPANY

PREFACE

In offering this volume to the public the author has but one
wish--namely, that it may supply a want in time of need and help some
one over a difficult place.

Most of the subject-matter in Parts One, Two, Three, and Four was
written for and has been previously published in the _Atlantic
Educational Journal_, with a view to assisting the rural teacher. The
present volume comprises a revision of the articles published, together
with a short account of one season's work in a school garden, and has
the same object--that of aiding the rural teacher by means of a few
simple suggestions.

The work is divided into five parts--"Cord Construction," "Paper
Construction," "Wood Construction," "Basketry," and "The School
Garden." No subject is dealt with at length. The aim has been to give
simple models that may be made without elaborate preparation or special
material.

Believing that a child is most likely to appreciate his tools when he
realizes their value or knows their history, a brief introduction to
each part is given, and wherever possible, the place of the occupation
in race history is dealt with, and an account of the culture and
habitat of the material is given.

As clear a statement as is possible is made of how the model is
constructed, and in most cases both a working drawing and a picture are
given.

VIRGINIA McGAW.

BALTIMORE, MARYLAND,
April, 1909.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

To the _Atlantic Educational