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    Where We Live A Home Geography
    Where We Live A Home Geography
    Where We Live A Home Geography
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    Where We Live A Home Geography

    By Emilie Van Beil Jacobs

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Where We Live A Home Geography - Emilie Van Beil Jacobs

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Where We Live, by Emilie Van Beil Jacobs

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      Title: Where We Live

      A Home Geography

      Author: Emilie Van Beil Jacobs

      Release Date: October 7, 2007 [EBook #22911]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WHERE WE LIVE ***

      Produced by Juliet Sutherland, David Wilson and the Online

      Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

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      WHERE WE LIVE

      A Home Geography

      GENERAL EDITION

      BY

      EMILIE V. JACOBS

      Supervising Principal of the Richardson L. Wright School, Philadelphia

      PHILADELPHIA

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      1913, 1914

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      CONTENTS

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      MAPS

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      FOREWORD

      Once upon a time as four blind men sat by the roadside they heard the tramp of an elephant’s feet, and said one to another, Here comes an elephant; now we shall know what he is like. The first blind man put out his hand and touched the elephant’s broad side. The second took hold of a leg. The third grasped a tusk, and the fourth clutched the animal’s tail.

      Now do you know what an elephant looks like? asked a friend.

      Yes, cried the first. The elephant is broad and flat like a barn door.

      What! exclaimed the second. The elephant is big and round like the trunk of a tree.

      Not so! cried the third. The elephant is hard and smooth like a polished stone.

      What are you all talking about? cried the fourth. The elephant is just like a piece of rope.

      Much so-called teaching of geography leads to just such incomplete and fantastic ideas about geographical concepts. Very many children have only vague, incomplete and incorrect conceptions of the things they see. Like these physically and mentally blind men we are too often satisfied with mere wordy descriptions of subjects when we might study the subject at first hand if we would.

      This little book is intended to prevent the giving of information by description, but to suggest ways of directing attention to those things which lie within reach of the child’s senses, things which he might pass by, things which are needed now to stimulate an intelligent interest in his surroundings, things which are needed later for an appreciation and enjoyment of his study of the larger facts and concepts of geography. If the larger geographical concepts are to have accuracy and richness for the child he must have his attention directed to his surroundings. The trite expression

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      from the known to the unknown is good pedagogy, but there must be a known on which to build.

      The book is based upon the author’s actual experience in the class-room studying the children at their geography tasks. It has been her experience that the efforts of the teachers to build broad geographical concepts were of no avail because the pupils did not have accurate intimate knowledge of the necessary home geography upon which to build. To correct this defect she set about collecting and classifying the necessary material. With the use of this material she not only found that the class teachers had much less difficulty in presenting the study of the earth as a whole, but that an interest beyond all expectation was apparent in the children.

      The following pages are valuable more on account of the things they suggest than for any geographical facts which they incidentally present. The book is not a text-book on geography; it is a compendium of suggestion on the study of the subject. It makes little effort to present facts, but rather it tells how to gather, classify and study facts. It is intended to be used with children during the age when they especially delight in the making of collections, and is intended to turn to a definite use this childish instinct.

      Map study is based entirely upon the child’s experiences as he makes plans of his schoolroom, schoolhouse, streets and city. The suggestions regarding the study of things foreign to the child are based entirely upon his experience in the study of the types with which he has become familiar in his study of his surroundings.

      Milton C. Cooper,

      Superintendent of District Nine, Philadelphia.

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      INTRODUCTION

      Geographical knowledge should progress from the known to the unknown, from the familiar to the unfamiliar. The world is the home of mankind. We can best understand the larger world by a preliminary consideration of our own small intimate home. We therefore begin to study geography with an account of the child’s immediate environment. The school stands for the common home of the class. From the school we gradually widen out our teaching to include the immediate neighborhood with its buildings, and finally the whole town or community.

      We study the various types of people whom we meet every day, and the industries in which they engage in their efforts to

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