Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household ManagementOntario. Department of Education
General
Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Management
Ontario. Department of Education
Cooking; Home economics
The pupils of Form III, Junior, are generally too small to use the
tables and stoves provided for the other classes and too young to be
intrusted with fires, hot water, etc.; but they may be taught the
simpler facts of Household Management by the special teacher of the
subject, or by the regular teacher in correlation with the other
subjects. In either case a special room is not necessary.
If the latter plan be adopted, the following correlations are suggested:
CORRELATIONS
Arithmetic.--1. Bills of household supplies, such as furniture, fuel,
meat, groceries, bed and table linen, material for clothing. This will
teach the current prices as well as the usual quantities purchased.
2. Making out the daily, weekly, or monthly supply and cost of any one
item of food, being given the number in the family and the amount used
by each per day.
_Example_: One loaf costs 6c. and cuts into 18 slices. Find the cost of
bread for two days for a family of six, if each person uses 1 1/2 slices
at one meal.
3. Making out the total weekly or monthly expenses of a household, given
the items of meat, groceries, fuel, gas, etc. This brings up the
question of the cost of living.
4. Making out the total cost of a cake, a loaf of bread, a jar of fruit,
or a number of sandwiches, given the cost of the main materials and
fuel used. Compare the home cost with the cost at a store. This may be
used to teach economy.
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Geography.--1. The sources of our water supply.
2. The geographical sources of our ordinary household materials, their
shipping centres, the routes by which they reach us, and the means of
transportation.
_Examples_: Fuels, common minerals used in building and furnishing;
timber for floors and furniture; manufactured goods, such as cotton,
linen, carpets, china; domestic and foreign fruits; common groceries,
such as salt, sugar, tea, coffee, cocoa, spices, rice, cereals, and
flour.
3. The preparation of our common household commodities.
_Examples_: Cotton, linen, china, paper, sugar, tea, coffee, cereals,
flour.
4. The household products that are exported.
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Nature Study.--1. The parts of plants used as food.
2. The natural sources of our common foods, such as cornstarch, flour,
breakfast cereals, tea, coffee, cocoa, sugar, salt, cheese, butter.
3. The sources of common household substances, such as coal-oil,
gasolene, paraffin, turpentine, washing soda, whiting, bathbrick, soap.
4. The forms of water, as ice, steam.
5. The composition and impurities of the air.
6. The ordinary woods used in house building and furnishing.
Hygiene.--The necessity for the following:
1. Fresh air in the home at all times--in living rooms and sleeping
rooms
2. Good food and plenty of sleep
3. Cleanliness of the body
4. Cleanliness in preparing food
5. Cleanliness in the home and surroundings.
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