Material
- Cards, approximately 5’’ by 6’’ showing an outline diagram of land or water form with the name across the bottom, on white ground. (Control). The land should be painted green, water blue.
- Duplicate set of cards with the diagram only.
- Set of Cards with the name only.
Direct Aim
- To help the child make the transition from the geography trays (Colors and shapes should resemble trays as closely as possible.)
- To continue the abstraction of the idea of land and water forms. They are presented in pairs for contrast.
- To order and classify the child’s impressions.
Teacher’s Presentation
- Take two corresponding pairs of cards(4 in all) to the child’s table. If the child is expected to struggle with this, also take the corresponding geography trays. Say, “These pictures are another way of showing the land and water forms.” Discover with him which card corresponds to the tray. Remind him of the name of teach by 3-period lesson if he does not know them, (using pictures without names, only). Lay out the named cards, naming them as you do so. Find the corresponding picture cared with his help and lay it below the name card. Place the corresponding name below the picture card. You then have a double row of identical pictures with names.
- The child uses cards and duplicate pictures, no name slips, and repeats the names to himself.
- Later: The child takes a picture, chooses a name label, reads what he thinks is the correct one, then checks with the Control Card.
- The child takes a name slip, chooses what he thinks is the corresponding picture, then checks with the Control Chart. Gradually he uses the whole set.
Further Exercises
The child may draw the cards and make booklets of them.
Further Material
About 30 Control Cards with names on front and definitions on the back. Match duplicate set of pictures and name slips. Present land forms first, then water forms. Putting parts of the river in order is an interesting grading exercise.