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Play Life, Dorothy Flatz

Bachelors’ Theses

So universal is the impulse to play that there is no part of the world in which play and play traditions do not exist in some form. All over the civilized globe, girls play with dolls, boys wrestle, and older people dance. The game called Blind Man’s Buff may be seen in France, in Scotland or in any other country. The game, Fox and Geese, played in one section of our country may be found slightly altered as Fox and Chickens in another section. Play is not only a part of our civilized nation but is just as much a …

Play And Education, Hertha C. Moritz

Bachelors’ Theses

Today the school recognizes the natural tendency of the child to play and uses it as a means of Individual development and to promote the social spirit of the school and classroom.

Art Education In The Intermediate Grades, Mina Mclaughlin

Bachelors’ Theses

Any history of art education in the United States, no matter how brief, should begin with the far-sighted vision of that great genius, Benjamin Franklin. As early as 1749, he advocated the teaching of drawing by imitation of prints and some of the first principles of perspective.

Reading In The Public Schools, Emilie M. Renz

Bachelors’ Theses

All subjects in a school curriculum are designed to develop the pupils' powers to engage in desirable activities.

Reading is the most important subject in the curriculum. To teach it effectively requires careful daily preparation. The aim of reading instruction must be well understood and definite so that it may develop expressive oral readers as well as effective rapid silent readers. Expressive oral reading for entertainment purposes; skillful silent reading for meaning and satisfaction of the reader himself justifies the importance of this subject in the curriculum.

The Development Of Study Habits In The Junior High School, Selma L. Wolters

Bachelors’ Theses

The aim of this thesis is to show how definite study habits may be developed in the Junior High School. With children coming from many outlying schools, different nationalities and correspondingly different environments and study methods, it is imperative that at the beginning of the school year, one makes a brief survey of the entire group, seeing what has been done, the difficulties which are to be removed and how best to deal with various students who do not seem to have the necessary background for the establishment of sound study habits. Many books and numerous chapters have been written …

The County Supervisor And The Beginning Teacher, May L. Wood

Bachelors’ Theses

Rural schools are unmistakably a real and integral part of our national system of education. Our educators have long been directing their best efforts towards improving methods of education, attitudes and standards. But unfortunately, our rural schools have not been able to partake sufficiently of all the good to be derived from these studies. Non-scholastic influences are operating against their best efficiency. An analysis of these non-scholastic influences is the purpose of this thesis.

This is not to be considered in any manner an arraignment of the rural schools as such. Rather, it is because of an appreciation of the …

Gifted Children, Esther Wolfgram

Bachelors’ Theses

In the past few years, the problem of the gifted children has been more thoroughly investigated than formerly. The experiments pertaining to the unfortunates--the delinquent and the feeble-minded--have been numerous, but the experiments dealing with the more fortunate have been neglected. This unfortunate neglect of the gifted has been due to the tendency of people to notice whatever gives them pain or annoyance. These problems were studied and experimented with; but the gifted children at the other end of the scale were neglected. The idea in teaching was to lift up the lowly end so there would not be such …

Essential Objectives Of Instruction In Reading In The Junior High School, Olive L. Christensen

Bachelors’ Theses

Reading is so obviously the key subject of the grades and has, so many ramifications and contacts with the other school subjects and with important attitudes and habits of mental work that we cannot have too much light thrown upon its aims and objectives.

Trends In The Teaching Of Oral And Written English In The Upper Grades, Alice E. Fowler

Bachelors’ Theses

English is a unit of study. Including in its scope "language" in the lower grades and spelling, reading, composition and grammar in the upper, it is by far the most important subject in our schools. All parts of this whole are closely interwoven, and the study of one of these branches is the study of the whole. An understanding of grammar aids in cor­rect expression; a knowledge of the difficulties of composi­tion lays a foundation for a true appreciation of literature; and literature itself is the best aid in the art of graceful and powerful composition.

The History Of Play In Education, Esther M. Hayes

Bachelors’ Theses

The value of play in education is no longer questioned by those who have studied the subject.

Play is an element in education. There is no contrast between play and education. Knowledge is useful only so far as it promotes efficiency in the practical affairs of life. It is in play that the child gains control of his body, acquires accuracy and preci­sion in motion and judges distances, sights, and sounds.

The most fundamental lesson of character training is sports­manship. It would be well worth putting play into the curriculum for this reason alone. Play is the most perfect democracy. …

The Function Of Play In The Primary Grades, Florence K. Mccabe

Bachelors’ Theses

Play is universal. It is a form of language by means of which people all over the world express their emotions. It is not confined to any one people; it is not isolated to any one section of the world. In the kingdom as well as in the republic play reigns supreme. No law can or does attempt to suppress it, for leaders everywhere recognize the valuable part it holds in the life of man.

Value Of Reading In Character Training In The Intermediate Grades, Manilla R. Larson

Bachelors’ Theses

This paper is an effort to find to what extent the technical development of Character Training can be adjusted to the reading program. To reach a conclusion a study was first made of the general aim of education and of character training in particular. The various methods used in teaching character were taken under consideration. Finally, the intrinsic value of reading and its adjustment to an objective character training program were considered.

Health Education In The Primary Grades, Editta S. Kyro

Bachelors’ Theses

Our foremost educators in their most recent statements of educational principles and objectives, are quite seriously placing health as the first and fundamental objective of education. The need and value of health activities in schools has been recognized by them, and as a result, they have concluded that the protection of a child’s health is a fundamental school obligation.

Modern Methods Of Teaching Geography In The Upper Grades, Ella M. Hoffman

Bachelors’ Theses

With the outbreak of the World War, we, as a nation, became vitally interested in Europe. Later when we were drawn into the contest, that interest reached its highest pitch. Since then we have realized that geography is not a collection of dry, unrelated facts that must be learned merely for the sake of the mental training it gives us, but that it is a vital, living subject that concerns living, vital people all over the world and their relation to each other. When the war broke out, we were ashamed and astonished at our lack of geographic knowledge. We …

Social Significance Of Language Teaching, Ottilia Neumeister

Bachelors’ Theses

In writing this paper, it is my attempt to show, mainly through quotations from those we consider authorities in the fields of education, the significance of language teaching arising from the significance of language abilities which are so fundamental in the spelling of the thing that makes for world progress and civilization.

Tomahawk, April 26, 1932, College Of The Holy Cross

Student Newspapers

No abstract provided.

The Echo: April 13, 1932, Taylor University

1931-1932 (Volume 19)

Wesche, Winters Rival Shilling, Kimbel on Echo – Bishop Wade Reads Church Appointments – Girls Vote to Hold Open House Saturday – Clarence T. Wilson Tells of Situation Under Prohibition – Seniors Choose Dr. Merton Rice To Give Address – Buvard Tells about Lives Worth Living – Merton S. Rice Has Large Crowd Friday – Bishop Gest Senior Membership in Firm – Dr. F. Fisher Lauds Gandhi’s Principles In Friday’s Address – Coldiron, Smith Oppose Shields, Boyd on Annual – Students Enjoy Kid Party with Faculty – A New Literary Society – The Spare Galley – Contemporaries – Inquiring Reporter …

Tomahawk, April 12, 1932, College Of The Holy Cross

Student Newspapers

No abstract provided.

Colonnade April 11, 1932, Colonnade

Colonnade

No abstract provided.

The Echo: April 5, 1932, Taylor University

1931-1932 (Volume 19)

Gem Nominates Shields, Boyd for Next Year – Societies Appoint Spring Contestants – Shute Speaks About Ethics of Preacher – Students Represent School by Programs – Furbay Takes Group to Circus Grounds – Work of Girls Is Seen in Style Show – Girls’ Glee Club Gives Unusually Varied Program – Eulogs Get Decision in Inter-Club Fray – Educational Screen Shows Roman Scenes – Men Prefer Health in Life Partners – Efforts of Hunters Bring Good Results – Conference Has Assemblies This Week in Muncie – Students Turn Joke on Frisky Faculty – Setting a New Goal – Our Gospel Teams …

The Place Of The Green Leaf In The World, C. W. Lantz

Science Bulletin

Why is a leaf? Ask the question of twenty-five of your friends and if five can give the correct answer I will be surprised. The green leaf is the food factory for the world. It is the plant organ that captures the energy of the sun and in the process of photosynthesis builds of carbohydrates from carbon dioxide and water and stores this energy in potential form. Later, through oxidation processes, this energy is released and does most of the work of the world. The green plant connects the inorganic world with the organic world and our energy is directly …

Colloids, R. W. Getchell

Science Bulletin

The increasing importance of the chemistry of colloids is giving them a wide recognition in the general chemistry texts of college grade. In a lesser degree they are included in the high school books but the information is often so condensed as to offer little of value. The writer believes that two or three class periods near the end of the year's course should be devoted to this subject and this article will attempt to present basic fact upon which may be built a discussion of colloids for high school pupils.

Science Bulletin, Vol.4 No.8, April 1932 [Complete Issue]

Science Bulletin

A Service Bulletin for Teachers of High School Science.

Concerning Cottontails, Roy L. Abbott

Science Bulletin

The cornfield lay above a low bluff overlooking a swamp, and for half an hour I had tracked that cottontail through a perfect maze of weeds and cornstalks. Warming with the chase, I was determined to have that particular bunny if it took me all morning. if I had not known better, I would have thought he was teasing me. Time and again, his tracks led into a bunch of grass with every indication that he was there for the day, but always they led out on the other side.

Iowa State Teachers College Program Of Recitations, Spring 1932, Iowa State Teachers College

UNI Schedule of Classes

A listing and schedule of the courses being taught as well as policies and procedures concerning attending classes at the Iowa State Teachers College.

Reading For Leisure, Madeline M. Mages

Bachelors’ Theses

Education for leisure is an outstanding need of the present age. The growth of industrial development in the United States, and in the world, with its attendant unemployment crisis, has brought with it enforced leisure for thousands of workers, many of whom are inadequately prepared to use it wisely.

Silent And Oral Reading In The Fourth Grade, Ida M. Golden

Bachelors’ Theses

Th© value of the ability to read, understandingly and. rapidly is being recognized, more and. more by people in all walks of life. The possession of reading ability makes it possible for one to enrich his own life, become more efficient in his chosen work, and be of greater service to the world in which he lives.

Teaching Of General Science In The Junior High School, Joseph T. Petska

Bachelors’ Theses

In this age of science and materialism there is not in the writers opinion, a more enriching course in our high schools as is a well balanced, well organized course in general science! It is enriching because, if taught well, it functions in the lives of the learners, it bridges the gap between the life of the learner and his environment.

The writer feels that the work in general science is of great importance and is worthy of the best thought of those responsible for the details of the courses in this subject in the junior high school. In spite …

Major Aims And Objectives Of The Fourth Period Of Reading And How To Secure Them Through Pupil Activity, Margaret Hart

Bachelors’ Theses

Reading has been divided into five periods, which do not correspond to the hard and fast lines of the grade levels of a school system nor to the chronologi­cal or educational ages of any group of children. The first period is that of preparation for reading and embraces generally children of pre-school age, the kindergarten and the early first grade. This period is followed by the period of initial instruction in the first grade. Reading is introduced as a thought getting process and the ability to read very simple passages, independently and intelligently is developed. The third period covering the …

Poetry Appreciation In Fifth And Sixth Grades Of Elementary School, Marie R. Donahue

Bachelors’ Theses

Literature, particularly in recent years, is given important consideration in every elementary course of study, no matter how small or large the school may be. This is as it should be, for it is something that every child at every age enjoys and out of which many advantages are derived...