. Map modeling in geography : including the use of sand, clay putty, paper pulp, plaster of Paris, and other materials : also chalk modeling in its adaptation to purposes of illustration. e teacher examines the papers, slates, or books upon whichthe children have written the names of the kinds of land. Somechildren have added new words at this place, orchards, coal-lands,clay-beds, oil-lands. These are added to the blackboard lists,and give basis for future study. Let these names come from thechildren. Some of those given above would be the last men-tioned by the children in other localities.


. Map modeling in geography : including the use of sand, clay putty, paper pulp, plaster of Paris, and other materials : also chalk modeling in its adaptation to purposes of illustration. e teacher examines the papers, slates, or books upon whichthe children have written the names of the kinds of land. Somechildren have added new words at this place, orchards, coal-lands,clay-beds, oil-lands. These are added to the blackboard lists,and give basis for future study. Let these names come from thechildren. Some of those given above would be the last men-tioned by the children in other localities. What a large number of useful things we have growing uponthe land ! The meadows give us grass from which we makehay, and in the ploughed fields we may plant grain and otherthings. Kate may name some of the common crops. Wheat,oats, rye, and barley. James? Corn and buckwheat. Wefeed the corn to the hogs. No, not all of it, for the millermakes meal from corn. And the buckwheat ? Oh, that ismade into flour for buckwheat cakes ! Jennie may tell aboutthe crops. We have pumpkin pies down at randmas house;thats the way grandma uses the pumpkins. A very good way. Some farmers feed them to. Fig. 73. the stock. (Fig. 73.) Grandmasays that her mother made syrupby boiling pieces of pumpkin inwater. During the war forindependence. They couldntget sugar. Sugar makes thepumpkin sweet. * Ben and Imade a jack-lantern last night.(Fig. 74.) (The despised jack-o-lantern, thus forcibly thrown intothe lesson, need not necessarily Field Products, 165 be rejected. In the hands of a skillful teacher it fairly beamswith light in regard to meridians, parallels of latitude, poles,zones, triangular and four-sided continents, islands, etc. Pass itby for the present, however, until the boy can bring it as an ob-jective reality into the schoolroom. It may then be made some-thing more than a source of laughter.) But we want somethingabout other crops, Harry. Mr. Smith paid me for helpingTom and Paul pick up th


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