Primary Object Lessons for Training the Senses and Developing the Faculties of Childern; A Manuel of Elementary Instruction for Parents and Teachers / Norman Allison Calkins

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881. Excerpt: ... QUALITIES OF OBJECTS. IMPORTANCE OF TEACHING THEM. Before children commence Lessons on Objects with a view to observing their several qualities and uses, it is desirable that they should receive special training in distinguishing and naming the qualities. Lessons have been given in the preceding pages for training children to perceive the shapes, colors, number, size, and sounds of objects, and it is important that lessons should also be given to aid them in distinguishing other properties. Besides, the plan of taking a single quality for a lesson, ana training the pupils to discover it in a variety of objects, furnishes facilities for a thorough discipline of their minds, and leads to habits of classifying and associating like kinds of qualities and facts in accordance with the natural laws of mental acquisition. These lessons will also lead teachers to avoid those desultory and unprofitable exercises which are sometimes called "Object Lessons." After having received such training, the children will be able to take up any object and readily distinguish and name its principal properties. These lessons will also prepare children to understand what qualities render objects most valuable for the several uses in which they are employed. The exercises in "Home Training of the Senses," on pages 27 to 32 inclusive, may furnish some hints that will prove useful in giving these lessons on Qualities. LESSONS ON QUALITIES. TO DISTINGUISH AND NAME THEM. Rough and Smooth.--To lead children to distinguish the qualities rouyh and smooth, request them to feel of a slate, of writing-paper, and a piece of polished wood; then to feel of sand-paper, of coarse cloth, and a piece of rough wood. Tell them that when any thing has an even surface, like the paper, or the slate, or...
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