A brief course in the teaching process

by George D. Strayer

a. Why important,—travel over, seen as landscape.

b. Why emphasize landscape and not forms first?

c. Plains,—why most important? Life relation to.

d. Rolling lands.—Relations to life.

e. Mountain regions.—Relations to life (should, in many localities, be deferred to later work).

References: Teachers College Record, March, 1901, pp. 15-17. Davis, W. M., “Home Geography,” Journal of Geography, p. 1. Geikie, A., The Teaching of Geography, chap. ii. McMurry, C. A., Excursions and Lessons in Home Geography.

6. First Knowledge of World Whole.

A. Expansion of home geography outward to ocean.

a. How to present form of earth—relation to home, necessities and luxuries.

b. Parts of earth that may be related to home in developing knowledge of world whole, based on experience of pupils.