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What if a child’s first lesson about the earth begins with the hill behind the house?
In Home Geography for Primary Grades, C. C. Long starts with places a young child already knows. The walk to school, a nearby field and the weather become starting points for learning about the earth. This school text gives teachers and parents a way to connect geography with things children can see and touch.
The approach puts looking before reading and naming. Children notice the sun’s direction, the shape of the land, soil and nearby plants. From the house and neighborhood, their view widens toward the town and larger areas. Drawings, simple plans and models help connect familiar ground with a sense of the wider world.
What you’ll discover
- Lessons close to home See how a familiar walk or nearby pond can become a first geography lesson.
- Looking before naming Explore an approach that asks children to notice their surroundings before turning to words.
- An ever wider circle Follow the learning path from home and neighborhood toward the town and larger areas.
- The world takes shape Discover how drawings, sand tables and clay models help make places easier to understand.
- A classroom tradition Meet an American teaching approach that builds knowledge through nearby places and everyday observation.
Who will love it
This book suits teachers, parents and home educators who like hands-on learning, and anyone curious about how children were once taught to look at hills, streams, weather, crops and trades around them.
What’s inside
The key ideas, in the 15-minute summary
- Start with what children can see
- Teach by conversation, then let children express themselves
- Learn direction from sun, stars and compass
- Measure distance and draw plans
- Follow water from vapor to river to sea
- Name the forms of land and water
- Plants and animals fit the life they lead
- Earth's riches and the work people do
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Home Geography for Primary Grades
by C. C. Long · 1894
A child's own hill, puddle and schoolyard become the Alps, great rivers and the ocean in this lesson book.
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Home Geography for Primary Grades is a small teaching book by C. C. Long. It is written for the teacher of young children and for the children themselves.
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Start with what children can see
The note to the teacher sets out the main claim. We learn about home through direct observation, and we learn about faraway places through imagination that rests on information. So the first step is to study the small piece of Earth right outside the door.
The author gives clear pairings. The hill a pupil climbs each day can stand for the Andes or the Alps. A meadow suggests a plain or prairie. A small stream by the schoolhouse, even a tiny one after rain, can lead a child to think of the great rivers of the world. A pond helps a child picture a sea.
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What is Home Geography for Primary Grades about?
It is a set of short lessons for young children that begins with the schoolroom and neighborhood. Lessons cover direction, distance, plans, maps, water, landforms, plants, animals, minerals and the occupations of people.
Who is Home Geography for Primary Grades for?
It is written for teachers of young pupils and for the pupils themselves. Parents and home educators will also find its questions, drawing tasks and simple experiments easy to use at a kitchen table or in a garden.
How does the book teach direction?
It uses the sun first, with east where the sun rises and west where it sets. It then adds the North Star, found from the Dipper, and the compass for cloudy days.
The author
C. C. Long
Writer
C. C. Long wrote this lesson book for primary teachers and pupils. The book shows its author's world: a schoolroom with slates, blackboards and molding boards, where geography began with the hills, brooks and trades near the school door. Little else about the author is given here.
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