Methods and aids in geography, for the use of teachers and normal schools . remember the comparisons. Further Comparisons in Area. Children become very much interested in making thesecomparisons in area. They can usually discover strikingsimilarities for themselves, and delight to represent them onthe board for the entertainment of their school teacher should encourage all this work, as it creates aninterest in the subject; and these little map-pictures arenever forgotten. Further suggestions in this line of teachingare given in Figs. 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, and 28. Comparative Size of
Methods and aids in geography, for the use of teachers and normal schools . remember the comparisons. Further Comparisons in Area. Children become very much interested in making thesecomparisons in area. They can usually discover strikingsimilarities for themselves, and delight to represent them onthe board for the entertainment of their school teacher should encourage all this work, as it creates aninterest in the subject; and these little map-pictures arenever forgotten. Further suggestions in this line of teachingare given in Figs. 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, and 28. Comparative Size of Mountains. Draw upon the blackboard a horizontal line. Place atthe extreme left a small arc to represent the height of thenearest hill. If this is about five hundred feet, representits height by half an inch in the curve of the arc. Thiswill make a scale of one inch to every thousand feet. Thenrepresent some well-known mountain in the State, or, per-haps, the highest peak. Let the pupils calculate with youthe size of the arc to represent the highest point of land in the.
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