The Story of a Country - Study Guide

How to use this guide: Choose a country to study. (For a given year choose for instance a highland, a lowland, a desert country, a jungle or hot, rainy country, a cold country, a land-locked country, and an island country.) Allow the student to look up information in relevant texts and/or encyclopedias. Let the student trace or copy a map of the chosen country. Let him/her decorate the title page. Let him/her add drawings and relevant illustrations throughout his/her project.

Principles of this method:

1. Student learns to research. Some call this active learning as compared to passive learning or learning by imitation.

2. For later life the student has an understanding of a people and their culture, as well as some interesting details relating to circumstances in their country.

3. Each project is small enough to read through for entertainment of others.