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  • Talks About Common Things

    Document thumbnail: Talks About Common Things
    Type:
    Document
    Description/Abstract:
    1891 printing of the 1891 copyrighted text. The author is credited as the author of MacLeod Reproduction Stories, MacLeod Composition Outlines, Lessons on Common Minerals, etc. The book is meant for students and teachers and aims to give information about the familiar objects around us. Examples of objects covered by chapter are: cotton, flax, tea, bread grains, pepper, bricks, and tobacco. The margins contain questions to answer from the information given in the text. Examples of topics covered in the cotton chapter: Where found, appearance of plant, the cotton gin, manufacture of cotton, spool-thread, fabrics made of cotton. Each chapter ends with a blackboard outline and ideas for objects to aid in the lesson. The Schultz Archive's copy is roughly the complete text.
    Creator/Author:
    Litchfield, Norma MacLeod
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/20/2016
    Date Modified:
    08/20/2019
    Date Created:
    1891
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0

  • Education by Doing: or Occupations and Busy Work, for Primary Classes

    Document thumbnail: Education by Doing: or Occupations and Busy Work, for Primary Classes
    Type:
    Document
    Description/Abstract:
    1891 printing of the 1884 copyrighted text. The author is credited as Teacher in the Children's Aid Society Schools in New York City. Influenced by Froebel's education by occupations, emphasizing experience and action in place of books and abstract thinking, in the spirit of the New Education. The chapters cover arithmetic, weights and measures, form and geography, color and form, language, busy work, miscellaneous, and slate work. The exercises in these subjects use ordered directions or operations and lists of questions. The Schultz Archive's copy is roughly the complete text.
    Creator/Author:
    Johnson, Anna
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/19/2016
    Date Modified:
    08/20/2019
    Date Created:
    1891
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0