8. Removal of the capital to Annapolis.
8. For “Life in Annapolis” see Churchill’s Richard Carvel: Chapter on “Christmas at Carvel Hall.” This should be read to the class.
Note.—Here the development of the Maryland colony may be closed because of the political difficulties which are entirely beyond the experience of the sixth-year child. The French and Indian Wars might be studied; also the opening up of western Maryland by the coming of the Germans; but the main point has been accomplished. The children have worked their way through the study by living in the conditions of the colony and solving Leonard Calvert’s problems for him. To work such a plan out in detail, to give just enough to whet the appetite of the child and then make him think for himself, to have him live as a colonist of the times, interested particularly in the details of government that concern the colonists as a united body until finally a “two house” legislature is demanded because of the growth in population, area occupied, and interests represented, is a task for the skill of the teacher, and is worth while.
Lida Lee Tall,
Baltimore County Schools.
A LESSON IN NATURE STUDY INVOLVING A REAL PROBLEM
This lesson was planned and taught very successfully in the third grade by Miss Roxana A. Steele of the Speyer School, Teachers College, Columbia University.
Teacher’s aims:—
1. To teach pupils why and how to transplant.
2. To prepare for the transplanting of the salvia plants in our school garden.
Pupil’s aims: