IV. Home Geography and World Whole
1. Certain General Considerations.
A. Home geography not a subject or a division of geography, but a method of approach to field as a whole,—cannot have a uniform course for all places.
B. Method of procedure must be from known to unknown through analysis of experiences of pupils.
C. Work should not call for knowledge of distant places.
D. Lessons should become more intensive and scope more extensive.
E. Topics should be taken up in definite sequence so far as possible.
F. Definitions, if any, to be summaries at close of developed points and not points of departure.
G. Units developed to be good geography units which may be used as basis for comparison over world. Heat, storms, woods, for instance, are not good units. Crossroads or city corners good units.
H. Local history to be brought in as much as possible.