TABLE OF CONTENTS 



PART I 

 THE TEACHING OF NATURE-STUDY 



Page 



What Nature-Study is i 



What Nature-Study Should do for the Child i 



Nature-Study as a Help to Health 2 



What Nature-Study Should do for the Teacher 2 



When and Why the Teacher Should say "I do not know!" 3 



Nature-Study, The Elixir of Youth 4 



Nature-Study as a Help in School Discipline 4 



The Relation of Nature-Study to Science 5 



Nature-Study not for Drill 6 



The Child not Interested in Nature-Study 6 



When to Give the Lesson 6 



The Length of the Lesson 7 



The Nature-Study Lesson Always New 7 



Nature-Study and Object Lessens 7 



Nature-Study in the Schoolroom 8 



Nature-Study and Museum Specimens 8 



The Lens, Microscope and Field-glass as Helps 9 



Use of Pictures, Charts and Blackboard Drawings 10 



The Use of Scientific Names 10 



The Story as a Supplement to the Nature-Study Lesson 10 



The Nature-Study Attitude toward Life and Death 1 1 



Should the Nature-Study Teacher Teach How to Destroy Life? 13 



The Field Note-book 13 



The Field Excursion 15 



Pets as Nature-Study Subjects 15 



The Correlation of Nature-Study with Language Work 16 



The Correlation of Nature-Study with Drawing 17 



The Correlation of Nature-Study with Geography 18 



The Correlation of Nature-Study with History 18 



The Correlation of Nature-Study with Arithmetic 19 



Gardening and Nature-Study 20 



Nature-Study and Agriculture 21 



Nature-Study Clubs 22 



How to Use this Book 24 



PART II 

 ANIMAL LIFE 



/ Bird Study 



Beginning Bird Study in the Primary Grades 25 



Feathers as Clothing 27 



Feathers as Ornament 30 



How Birds Fly 33 



Eyes and Ears of Birds 36 



