Students Learn
Geography Now
red Method
yisita to Industrial Plants
Giv» Pupils First-Hand
Information; Textbook*
More Interesting.
I,eon O. tmlth, assistant superin
tendent of schools, ha* written aome
of his Ideas on “Geography Teaching
Today Versus 'Ths Good Old Days."'
He takes th# following slant of the
subject:
School* don’t teach geography like
they used to teach It. Do you re
member when geography meant a big
book behind which you could put a
“Diamond Dick" or soma other
thriller and have It hidden safely
from the teacher’a eyes? It also
meant a fine place to eat apples oV
cheap chocolates. Even the hooks
are different now. While the geogra
phy text Is atlll larger than books In
other subjects because of the maps
they contain, they are not quite akin
to the atlas In size, as were the text
books In the days of our youth.
Do yo"u remember how In your
school days your study of geography
was confined to dry. encyclopedic
facts about the number of degrees
and the width of the various zones,
“bounding states and countries," nam
ing and locating innumerable capes,
bays, gulfs, rivers, cities, mountains,
harbors, etc. In some cases we
actually committed to memory in
order of importance, capes, bays,
gulfs, rivers, etc., lying around the
marginal continent. Then if we
wanted to locate any particular point
with reference to some other point
we had to start at the starting point
at the north and parro like repeat nil
these plaies until we rame to th,e
one In whlih we were particularly
Interested. And then, there were the
names of all the states nnh their
capitals which took much time. The
old alng so'ng geography lessons with
the locations “Malne-Augusta, on the
Kennebec river; Yermont-Montpelier.
on the Onion river," etc., were ef
fective In placing some bounds that
made it possible to keep Harrisburg
In Pennsylvania and Helena In Mon
tana, but who In Helena or Omaha
Is Interested In Montpelier oh the
Onion river. Such a system seem
ingly placed as much emphasis on
Carson City as upon St. Paul or In
dianapolis.
Began With New r.ngiano.
“In the good old days” pupil* be
jgan their study of the United States
with New England and followed the
historical development across the
country finally ending up with the
Paclflo northwest without any re
gard for the Interest or Industries of
the pupils in question.
Now it Is all different. Geography
Is taught as a lire, vital, thrilling
subject whose content is around
about us and which affects us from
our waking moments In the morning
until we go to bed at night. At the
present time, geography texts are
used in the Omaha echoole which
emphasize and begins the study of
the geography of the United States
with the middle west where we live,
and move, and have our being—that
portion of the country which fur
nishes so much of th# world's food
supply. Many of the pupils approach
the subject of geography by a study
of the foods which they find oh their
own tables and this makes a natural
contact with both foreign and do
mestic regions of Interest.
Furthermore, the modern textbooks
are leaving behind the formal, etilted,
dry way of presenting live material
and In the present day book the lan
guage is simple, the material more
Interesting, and often the etatements
are made In the vernacular. The fol
lowing description of a portion of
Texas by an American soldier Is
quoted In a geography text: "This Is
a country of more streams and less
water, more cows and less milk, and
where you can look farther and see
less than In any other country In the
world.” In the same paragraph, we
find this statement—"water Is so very
scarce that the natives have learned
to go a long time without It. If you
ask an Arizonan if he will have a
drink of water, he will probably reply
by saying. ‘No, thank you, I drank
yesterday.’ "
First-Hand Information.
Now the pupils not only read about
things In the text, but they get actual
first-hand Information by doing them.
Last year a class at Pacific school,
Thirteenth and Paclflo streets, was
studying about silk, so the members
of tha class actually procured some
■Ilk worms and kept them supplied
with mulberry leave* until the
•’worms” had developed sufficiently to
form cocoons and demonstrated the
manufacture of silk.
Then there Is Journey-georgraphy.
A certain elasa desired to see New
Tork city. They wanted to see the
buildings and the people, especially
bow the people lived. Among other
places mentioned were Niagara Falls,
tha Hudson river, Washington, D. C.,
Mt. Varnon, Asheville, N. C., and tha
blue grass region of Kentucky. The
class decided to become acquainted
with th* circle tours offered by the
railroad companies and selected th*
circle tour which would Include most
of these places. It was found that
the eastern objective of many of the
circle tours was Nsw Tork city. The
pupils Inferred from maps tha routes
connecting Omaha and New Tork
city. Thee* Inferences wers checked
by Inquiry at th* information bureau.
Various root*# war* discussed as to
time, eost and soenery. Tha rout*
Anally selected was from Omaha te
Chicago, from ChJeago to Montreal,
Montreal to Boston and from Boston
to Now Tork. Th# return Journey
was mad# by Washington, Mt. Ver
non, Cincinnati, Laxlngton, Ky.. to
Chicago. Thg attraction* along the
routes selected were studied in detail,
Illustrated literature Issued by rail
roads, chambers of commerce and
steamship companies supplied ma
terlal not found In text hooks. Th*
Imaginary Journey etpulated #o far
as possible all the experiences of n
real Journey, bringing a part of th*
real world close to each child.
Actual Industrie* Keen.
TV» you remember the old fashioned
Stereoscope on th# marble center
table In the parlor! Now, th# stereo
scope and stereograph art weed sda»
York Hotel Pays Off
Old Debt and Dividend
Tork, Neb., Feb. 21—Hotel Mc
Cloud. Tork, Neb., where the state
association of hotel men held their
annual meeting last week. The hotel
was built by local capital five years
ago. The high cost of building made
It necessary to borrow more money
than was planned. This sum was paid
.. . i
off the past year aiul a ft per cent
dividend was given stockholders, the
certificates being used as place cards
at the annual hotel meeting.
B, A. Slocum, who heads the hotel,
was elected state president of “the
Nebraska Hotel Mens’ association
and I. A. Medlar of the Midwest
Hotel Reporter was reelected sec
tary.
tiflcally in presenting s from a
geographic setting. Tlx .here are
lantern slides galore, to say nothing
of moving pictures depicting life and
activities in various industries In
numerable states, cities and countries.
Then. too. Omaha children make
many excursions to key industries in
the city. One day a class may, under
the direction of a teacher, visit the
telephone company or the smelter, or
a packing house, or a candy factory
(oh: boy). Another day the same class,
or another class, may make a tour of
inspection to the cracker factory or
creamers-, or see some other huge
industrial process carried on.
Concrete material of a supplement
ary nature Is furnished through the
various commercial exhibits furnished
to the schools. These show the pro
cess of manufacture of cocoa, let^d
pencils, pens, paper and numerous
other commodities. In many classes
the pupils make huge scrap books of
pictures, interesting information, sta
tistics, etc., which serve as valuable
sources of learning and also "a
memory book" of the subject. Some
times the whole class will co-operate
in making a book which is "a thing
of beauty and a joy forever.”
An excellent example of the latter
project is an "Omaha book" made by
the eighth B class of I-othrop school.
A boy In the seventh grade at Web
ster school actually constructed a
model steamboat out of a toy steam
engine and an erector set and he
informed the reporter that the engine
would run until the boiler sprang a
leak. So If any of you remember
geography as dry, just drop In on a
modern elaas In geography in the
Omaha schools and get a new point
of view.
Tax Payments Reflect
Farming Improvement
Columbus, Neb., Feb. 21.—Improved
conditions in farming communities is
reflected locally in the payment of
personal taxes, which have been more
prompt this year than at any other
time since the post-war days. In
Platte county the treasurer is issu
ing less than 200 distress warrants I I
for unpaid personal taxes this month
and all but a few of them are direct
ed against people who resided In the
county temporarily at the tlm# of
the spring assessment a year ago,
but departed before the taxes became
due. The number of distress war
rants Is about half that of two years
ago.
Cotner College Note*.
The affirmative debating teem of the
Brock High school defeated the Lincoln
High school Friday, by a two to one de
cision, on the league of nations question.
The Brock team Is coached by Richard
H. McCann, principal of that high school.
Mr. McCann was captain of the affirms
five state championship college team last
year and winner of one of the Alice
.leery debating prizes. i
Wendell Wlngard. Harvard, played an
original composition at chapel Thursday.
In the fine arts program The selection
had been written In connection with the
work of the harmony class, of which Miss
Emily Clarke la Instructor.
Avery Morton, who has been teaching
physical chemistry for several years In
Massachusetts Institute of Technology at
Boston, received his doctor of philosophy
degree last June from that Institution. He
received hla master of arts degree from
the University of Chicago In 1920.
Aileie Oulzow. Monte Vista, Colo.;
Mayble Epp. Falrbury; Joanna Coleman.
Ashland: Locky Evans. Lincoln, and J.
K Shellenberger. attended the annual
convention of the Nebraska Student Vol
unteer Union at York college. Professor
Shellenberrer has been faculty representa
tiv# on the advisory committee to the
•tats union. Mis# Oulzow was elected
business manager for the Nebraska Ptate
Student Volunteer Bulletin, a monthly
publication of the organization, for the
ensuing year. *
J. H. Blcknell, secretary or tha col
lege. preached In the Bethany church last
Sunday, morning and evening
Mra. Lsnore Burkett Van Kirk, direc
tor of the school of fine arts and Instruc
tor in voice, appeared with Dr Louisa
Pound, professor of the English language
In the University of Nebraska. In the fea
ture event of the season at the meeting
of the woman’s club at Fremont. Miss
Pound, authority on bellada, gave a lec
ture on western ballads. Mrs. Van Ktrk
singing a number of them. A similar pro
gram on the Nebraska folk songs was
¥lven by Miss Pound and Mrs. Van Kirk
hureday before the first annual conven
tion of the Nebraska Writer s Oulld at
Lincoln.
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