146 The Ottawa Naturalist. [October 



Form II. 



Nature Study. — Course of Form I. continued. Animal life : 

 Life history and habits of domestic animals and of a familiar wild 

 animals, as the squirrel, chipmunk, robin, crow ; earth-worm, 

 habits, structure, uses ; toad, habits, structure, uses ; observation 

 of live insects and their activities, comparison of young and adult 

 stages. 



Plant Life : Co-operative and individual work in school 

 garden ; cultivation of plants in pots with observation of the 

 development of leaves and flowers , parts of leaves and flowers ; 

 change of flower to fruit and of fruit to seed ; functions of the parts 

 of flowers ; the forms and uses of trees ; activities connected with 

 forestry and lumbering, with study of pioneer life and present con- 

 ditions on the prairie. 



Observation of farm, garden, and household operations. 



Form III. 



Nature Study. — Course of Form II. continued. 



Animal Life : Adaptation of different kinds of Animals to 

 their respective habits and surroundings ; birds, life history of 

 types, habits of wild fowl in diff'erent seasons ; fish, forms and 

 uses of different parts of the body, food and how obtained ; life 

 histories of moths, butterflies, beetles and grass-hoppers ; useful 

 insects, as ladybird and dragon fly ; harmful insects ; Nature's 

 insecticides. 



Plant Life : Germination of seeds under controllable con- 

 ditions and in the school garden and window boxes ; opening of 

 buds ; study of the forms and functions of the parts of plants, and 

 comparison of these forms and functions in different plants ; 

 observation of the culture of farm and garden crops and of orchard 

 and shade trees ; the observing and the distinguishing of the com- 

 mon forest trees. 



Different kinds of soil, as sand, gravel, loam, leaf-mould and 

 clay ; experiments to ascertain how soils are composed, whether 

 of mineral or of decayed organic material, and which best retains 

 water. Additional phenomena of spring in the vicinity of the 

 school, cause of snow melting, ice floating, etc.; how nature pre- 

 pares the soil for growth of plants. Distinction between hard and 



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