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THE EXPERIENCE EXCHANGE

HELPS I N TEACHING GEOGRAPHY

Just a h a n d f u l of suggestions that have proved h e l p f u l to me i n
teaching geography. May I pass them on?

T o anybody who has to teach South America I w o u l d like to
recommend a book that proved of inestimable service to me. This
is Clark's The Continent of Opportunity, and it is replete w i t h
the very things that arrest a child's attention and stimulate his interest.

Munsey's Magazine f o r the past year has had a long article each
month on the various European countries. The articles themselves
are largely historical and are chiefly valuable to the geography
teacher because of the excellent pictures.

A good set of books to place i n the hands of the children is called
Peeps at Many Lands.

I n teaching the Soudan, a region terribly remote from the child's
experience, t r y the vitalizing effect of K i p l i n g ' s poem Fuzzy Wuzzy,
prefaced by a brief explanation of the English expedition to the
Soudan.

W h e n we finished the study of the products of our country I
had product maps made. T h e girls made one, the boys another, and
there was intense r i v a l r y as to which map would be the better looking
and the more complete. A large outline map of the United States
was drawn, and then the products—grains of rice, wheat and corn,
bits of iron ore, coal, copper wire, leather, orange peel, splinters
of wood, etc.,—were pasted on by the pupils.

M y posters of the largest city in each section of the United States
proved stirrers of interest. W e studied these cities as though we
were visiting them. We procured post card views of each and used
them in this study. Later we wrote up our visit, pasted the story
on a big sheet of cardboard, lettered w i t h the name of the city and
illustrated w i t h our cards. I venture to say some of the pupils then
had a better acquaintance with that city than many an actual visitor
there.

H A R R I E T T * . A . W I L L I A M S , Omicron '12.

Teacher in Chattanooga, Term.

A T R I U M P H OF A PARENT-TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION

I t h i n k you may be interested i n hearing of something done by
the Parent-Teachers' Association i n Watertown, S. D . , (my home)
this year. Many of the more wealthy girls in the high school wore
very elaborate dresses to school continually—silks, low cut and short