Use of Nature-Study for Cutting Material for 

 Primary and Intermediate Grades 



Ruth Upha.m 

 Supervisor of Drawing, East Aurora, Illinois 



Although Nature-Study has always furnished a large part of the 

 material for cutting lessons, they are usually not closely enough 

 related to be of any special value to each other. 



In the Nature-Study lesson the child gains a clear mental image 

 of the object and in the Cutting Lesson that image is made per- 

 manent. 



Suppose the child tries to make a cutting of a frog. He thinks 

 that he knows exactly how a frog looks but after a few attempts he 

 decides to study it more closely. By the time a satisfactory cut- 

 ting from memory is made a good many definite facts about the 



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