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Sinopsis
Elementary Geography is a textbook written by Ralph Stockman Tarr and published in 1907. It is aimed at students in elementary school and provides an overview of geography, including physical geography, human geography, and economic geography. The book covers topics such as the earth's structure, weather and climate, landforms, oceans and seas, and the distribution of plants and animals. It also discusses human geography, including population, culture, and settlement patterns. In addition, the book explores economic geography, including natural resources, agriculture, industry, and trade. The book is illustrated with maps, diagrams, and photographs to help students better understand the concepts presented. Overall, Elementary Geography is a comprehensive and accessible resource for students to learn about the world around them.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.
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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
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The first book in Geography has always been the least interesting Geography text placed in the hands of children. If possible, of eprobhowever, it should be the most inlem method teresting, for the permanent attiin Geography jg of children toward the subject chU dren largely determined by their first study of it. How can improvement be effected? A simple and attractive style of presentation, much detail about the customs of people, and interesting pictures have all proved helpful; but they are inadequate. Modern education suggests a change in the selection and organization of subject matter that may be as great an aid as these other means combined. That is the centering of the treatment in other things than such topics as location, surface features, climate, etc. These are colorless, so far as young children are concerned; and no treatment organized solely on such a basis can avoid being coldly informational. The proposed substitutes [or them are questions or problems within the field of Geography tnat are suggested by the nature and interests of children. In the one case the child is subordinated to the subject; in the other, the subject is subordinated to the child. The two points of view are as wide apart as the poles, and their varying influence in the preparation of a text is constant. This text has been prepared from the viewpoint of the childs interests. Each section deals with questions that are interesting to young people. The fact that it is so directly based on childrens interests and experiences gives more than the customary guarantee that it will prove successful. A nother means for securing greater concreteness has been emphasized. A farm in one section may be typical, in appearance and method of cultivation, of thousands of other farms in the United States. Likewise one great city closely resembles others in general appearance and leading occu
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Elementary Geography (1907)
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Kessinger Publishing, 2010
ISBN 10: 116463030X
ISBN 13: 9781164630302
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Librería: California Books, Miami, FL, Estados Unidos de America
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