HOME=NATURE STUDY COURSE 



TEACHERS' LEAFLET. 



Based on the work for first and second year pupils as outlined 

 IN the Syllabus of Nature-Study and Agriculture, issued by 

 the New York State Education Department. 



With this leaflet the work of the Home Nature-Study Course 

 for the current year is completed. The editors have sought to give at 

 least one point of view in method of teaching the topics discussed in 

 these 173 lessons. As nature-study lessons pure and simple, the leaflets 

 for this year have given too much information and have required too 

 little direct ob- 

 servation to be 

 of the highest 

 efficiency. How- 

 ever, this plan 

 has been follow- 

 ed with afore- 

 thought, as in- 

 formation les- 

 sons were need- 

 ed by the teach- 

 ers of the State 

 in order that 

 they might be- 

 gin at once the 

 work outlined in 

 the State Sylla- 

 bus. The edi- 

 tors have dared 

 to hope that by 

 this easier path 



Photo, by Verne Morton. 



The ever triumphant dandelion. 



the teacher untrained in nature-study methods may be led to original 

 observation, and to a thorough study of each subject before she presents 

 it to her pupils. In any case, the pupils are so much more interested in 

 direct observation than in mere information concerning animals and 

 plants, that they will naturally carry on the work as original investiga- 

 tion whether the teacher has time to make observations for herself or not. 



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