Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Science in Rural Schools

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Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Science in Rural Schools

by Ontario. Department of Education

EN·~5 hours·3 chapters

Chapters

3 total
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ONTARIO - TEACHERS' MANUALS

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HOUSEHOLD SCIENCE - IN - RURAL SCHOOLS

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AUTHORIZED BY THE MINISTER OF EDUCATION - TORONTO - WILLIAM BRIGGS - Copyright. Canada. 1918. by The Minister of Education for Ontario

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Description

This manual offers a compact, three‑part curriculum for elementary teachers in Ontario’s rural schools, focusing on food preparation, sewing, and home care. Each course is broken into twenty concise lessons that can be spread over one year or stretched across three, giving educators flexibility to match their schedule and community needs. The guidance is written in plain language, so even a novice instructor can lead hands‑on activities that teach basic nutrition, sanitation, and simple garment work.

Beyond the lesson outlines, the book suggests a modest school library of reference titles on laundering, nutrition, hygiene, and agriculture, providing reading material for students and a resource for parents. Practical tips include recommended lesson lengths, ideas for integrating cooking with care‑of‑the‑home topics, and ways to adapt recipes and projects to local circumstances. Altogether, it serves as a straightforward toolkit aimed at improving everyday life for families in early‑20th‑century farm communities.

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Language

en

Duration

~5 hours (294K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by Sigal Alon, Turgut Dincer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries)

Release date

2007-02-10

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

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Ontario. Department of Education

A long-running public education body rather than an individual writer, this Ontario government department produced school readers, manuals, and other teaching materials that helped shape classroom learning across the province. Its books offer a window into how reading and education were taught in earlier generations.

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