﻿HISTORY STUDY m THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS 13 



Topics and Fields Included Frequency 

 Mateeial based ox American History — 



Stories of Great Americans 16 



Eggleston's 'Great Americans for Little Americans' 8 



Thanksgiving and the Pilgrims 8 



Colonial Days 2 



Pratt's 'American Stories for American Children', Book II 2 



American history stories 2 



Stories of Washington, Lincoln, and Columbus 8 



Story of early explorers 4 



Colonial life 1 



Mace's 'Primary History of the United States' 1 



John Smith, Franklin, La Salle, Clarke, and Penn 1 



Stories of Columbus 8 



Holidays, birthdays and celebrations 8 



Stories of pioneer life in America 8 



The Indians 11 



Biographical — American 4 



In connection with Independence 3 



Total 95 



Material based gist Old World History— 



Hebrew life and heroes 60 



Roman life, myths and stories 2 



Norse life 3 



General work based on Old World history (definite field not stated) 25 



Total 96 



Miscellaneous Material (not definitely included in the above) — 



Material belonging to subjects other than history 9 



Material of an indefinite nature 12 



Total 21 



The above snmmary clearly shows that Old World history is re- 

 ceiving the most attention in this grade. There seems to be rather 

 a definite agreement as to the general fields to include in third 

 grade history. The place where nniformity is lacking is in the 

 topics to be treated in each field. 



Summarj'- of the First Three Grades. Before passing to the 

 fourth grade it may be well to suggest some possible interpretations 

 of the data concerning the work in history for the first three grades. 

 Judging from the data, the work in history in the primary grades 

 is directed toward the accomplishing of three things, viz. : to give 

 the children what might be termed a historical perspective, to fix 

 in their minds certain type forms, and to acquaint them with a 



