Teaching elementary school subjects . peoples is worthy of attention, notably that of theGreeks. The stories of Palissy, Wood, and Wedgwood maywell be connected with the study of pottery. Especial atten-tion should be given to design in present-day wares found instores and shops. In the sixth grade, some simple forms of flower pots orboxes may be made of concrete, the forms providing goodprojects in wood-working. Boxes of cardboard or paper may be made, as use forthese appears in the several grades. A box for seeds, forcandy, for gloves or handkerchiefs, a catalogue-card case, or apencil-box a
Teaching elementary school subjects . peoples is worthy of attention, notably that of theGreeks. The stories of Palissy, Wood, and Wedgwood maywell be connected with the study of pottery. Especial atten-tion should be given to design in present-day wares found instores and shops. In the sixth grade, some simple forms of flower pots orboxes may be made of concrete, the forms providing goodprojects in wood-working. Boxes of cardboard or paper may be made, as use forthese appears in the several grades. A box for seeds, forcandy, for gloves or handkerchiefs, a catalogue-card case, or apencil-box are illustrations of possibihties in cardboard. In the fifth and sixth grades simple copper bowls may bemade by hammering and aimeahng. The process of etchingmay be shown by etching a simple decorated design on sucha bowl. Box forms in wood have been referred to under shelterand furnishing. One basket in each of two or three gradesmay be made illustrative of processes of weaving as modifiedfor coarse materials and varieties of INDUSTRIAL ARTS 295 In all this study of utensils the projects chosen should bethe means of approaching the industry in its present aspects,and of leading to an appreciation of the factors concerning itwhich it is useful for us to know. Tools and Machines.—While relatively little may bedone in making tools and machines in the elementary school,a great deal may be learned of their use and grows yearly more and more away from hand proc-esses to machine processes. But every machine had its fore-runner in a hand-tool. The uses of hand-tools in wood-work-ing, preparing foods, textile manufacture and sewing, metal-working, pottery, and in agriculture, are learned as they areemployed in these several fields. The making of looms, pot-ters wheels, water-wheels, windmills, rowboats, aeroplanes,derricks, and other mechanical devices gives practice in thestudy and appUcation of ntunerous simple mechanical prin-ciples. These principles and
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