OHIO NOTES 



At Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, nature-study is given during the 

 spring and summer terms. The course includes held study of birds, 

 insects, flowers and trees. 



Ashland College, Ashland, Ohio, gives a -course in nature-study four 

 times each week for eight weeks consisting largely of field work and notes 

 on the same. 



The Cincinnati Society of Natural History has recently prepared a num- 

 ber of portable cases of birds, insects and woods which are to be passed 

 around from school to school as supplementary material for the nature- 

 work. 



The nature-study work of the University of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio, 

 occupies five periods a week for one term. Field work and the note-book 

 form prominent features. 



During the year 1906, The Home Gardening Association of Cleveland, 

 Ohio, distributed 435,038 packets of seeds, 244,199 packets of which went 

 to the children of Cleveland schools and 1 go, 831, to schools and organiza- 

 tions outside of Cleveland. During the same period 101,000 bulbs were 

 distributed. The report for 1907 is not at hand. 



The University of Cincinnati offers two courses for teachers of nature- 

 study, one in plant life and the other in animal life. The courses arc 

 given in alternate years and continue throughout both semesters. Each 

 week one hour is given up to discussions or lectures and three hours to 

 laboratory or field work. 



Cleveland, Ohio, in 1901 had one "test" garden in the center of the city. 

 By 1906 eight school gardens had been established. 



Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, gives fall and spring courses in nature- 

 study, the materials for which are selected with special reference to their 

 availability and utility for instruction in elementarv schools. 



A number of educational institutions in Ohio give courses in elementary 

 agriculture which are also proving of great value to teachers of nature- 

 study. The same is true of several institution- in ving special courses in 

 ornithology. 



Professor B. M. Davis has issued recently a very practical, illustrated 

 pamphlet on "The Soil and Its Relation to Plants." (The Miami Bulletin, 

 N'o. 3, May 1907. Oxford, Ohio). The purpose of the bulletin is set 

 forth in the author's own words as follows: 



"The exercises outlined in this bulletin represent work that has actually 

 been done by pupils of the sixth to eighth grades. Part of the work was ■ 

 done by pupils of the County Model School \'o. 1, Ohio State Normal 

 College, an ungraded district school enrolling about twenty five pupils, in 

 Oxford Tp., Butler Co., Ohio." 



"The bulletin is intended to encourage and assist teachers who wish to 

 introduce elementary agriculture into their schools and do not know just 

 how to begin or how to conduct the instruction." 



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