Note Book For Constructive Work in Geography

Lesson plans for a geography class in the mid-1920s.

“Teachers generally agree that there is something vitally wrong with the teaching of geography, that the benefits derived are not commensurate with the time devoted to the subject, that pupils, after studying about a country, cannot talk intelligibly about that country. This book has been prepared as an aid to remedy these defects…” – Preface.

This interesting geography workbook was issued in 1926 by the Historical Publishing Company of Topeka, Kansas. The contents offer a series of outline maps of the United States and its various regions (plus Canada and Mexico), with accompanying blank areas where exercises can be filled in by the pupil. Several suggestions for map work accompany each image, such as coloring in or labeling particular features.