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Title: Catalogue of the instructors and students in the State Normal School at Salem
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: State Normal School at Salem
Subjects: State Normal School at Salem--Curricula Teachers colleges--Massachusetts--Students Teachers colleges--Massachusetts--Faculty
Publisher: Wm. Ives and Geo. W. Pease
Contributing Library: Salem State University
Digitizing Sponsor: Federally funded with LSTA funds through the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners

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o appreciate that the earth, with its animal and vege-table life, is an evolving organism, and that the present condi-tions show one stage of that evolution; of physical geography, tounderstand the typical processes affecting the earths surface andthe resulting land forms. The object of the course, other thangeneral culture, is to build up the background for the earthsciences that are taught in the elementary schools. It is madepreparatory to the course in geography that follows the next year. Field trips and laboratory work take an important part inthis work. The immediate surroundings offer diversified ma-terial for field work. The school is well equipped with a largeastronomical telescope, with individual and exhibition rock andmineral specimens, and a museum of selected fossils. Geography. Mr. Cushing.In this course the fundamental principles of the science areevolved from the study of the home locality, so that the under-standing of the mutual relations of man and his environment
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oo (H X (X. < PiOo w w 31 becomes observational knowledge. The method of instruction issuch as to tend to develop the reasoning power of the strident asthe facts of geography are studied. Much time is spent in interpreting the materials found in text-books on the subject in elementary schools, in map reading, inthe use of diagrams, models, pictures, specimens and the othergeographic helps. An intensive study of the pedagogy of geography occupies aperiod near the end of the course, after the students have gainedabundant illustrative material and experience in the previous\\rk of the class and in the practice school. The place of geog-raphy in the school curriculum is justified and the part it playsin reaching the ends of education is defined. A graded courseof study is worked out on this basis. The school possesses special advantages for geographic study.Salem has diversified land forms which determine varied indus-trial ;icti\ ities. An excellent harbor and near by rivers s

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