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Title: Catalogue and circular of information of the New Jersey State Normal School at Montclair
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: New Jersey State Normal School at Montclair
Subjects: New Jersey State Normal School at Montclair New Jersey State Normal School at Montclair New Jersey State Normal School at Montclair
Publisher: (Montclair, N.J.) : New Jersey State Normal School at Montclair
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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g insects and their relation to the otheranimals mentioned. Students will make and care for school gardens on the groundsof the school as a part of their regular work in this department. The course is not ostensibly a course in biological science, butmuch of the time is necessarily given up to the acquisition of factmatter because so many students are handicapped by having failedto take any such work in high school, and because many othershave had so little contact with the real objects of nature. The course does not aim to train any general power of observ-ation, but to include as wide a range of observations as possibleof objects worth observing, or that children will be likely to askabout, and which the prospective teacher may be called upon touse in her work. The flowers, trees, birds, insects, etc., are notstudied, from the scientific standpoint, but as more or less relatedto our lives, and in such a way as to give the student a readyrecognition of them—a speaking acquaintance.
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State Normal School at Montclair. 39 Geography. Three periods a week for one year are devoted to Geography.The aim is to give an understanding of the control which climate,surface and other geographical factors exert over the life of manand animals upon the globe; a knowledge of and ability to use theauthoritative source material available* and some idea of the bestway 6i presenting the subject to children. A brief preliminary survey of the essential facts of Mathe-matical Geography is made. The work on temperature, airpressure, condensation of moisture, etc., is done in connectionwith the work in Physics. The necessary work in PhysicalGeography is given in connection with the study of selectedregions. North America and Europe are studied with particularreference to the relation between man and his environment. Inthis part of the work Brighams Geographic Influences in Ameri-can History) Miss Semples American History and its GeographicConditions, Herbertons Man and His Work, and the va

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