ABSTRACT
The occupational work centered around the trading and maritime activities of the Phoenicians, their exploration of the Mediterranean basin, and commerce with its various outstanding settlements, and then moved on to the larger topic of world exploration and discovery. The children, in their role of Phoenician traders, met the problems and inconveniences similar to those found in the earliest form of trade by barter. The question of records seemed easiest, and the child who acted as trader at the time devised his own system of records. The children were shown primitive systems of counting. Psychologically, however, the child passes swiftly across the gulf of time on the wings of his imagination. The starting point again varied with the interest of the children and grew out of their class discussion. With the beginning of the spring quarter the children of group V began the story of Columbus' journeys, resulting in the discovery of the American continent.
