N ATUR E STUDY 



I0.40 



By FRANK OVERTON, A.M., M.D., assisted by 

 MARY E. HILL, Instructor in Science and Nature 

 Study in the Goodyear Buriingame School, Syracuse, N. Y, 



THIS book is designed to furnish a year's work in nature 

 study for pupils from eight to eleven years of age. The 

 subjects taken up are connected with everyday life, and 

 include the house fly, mosquito, butterfly, moths, mush- 

 rooms, dandelion, spider webs, golden-rod, golden-rod gall, 

 burdock, nest of a paper wasp, nest of a mud wasp, bird's 

 nest, tree trunk, cocoons, ice, snowflake, frost, pine tree, 

 pine leaves, pine cone, apple branch, apple fruit spur, earth- 

 worm, onion, maple seed, sprouting bean, maple bud, tad- 

 pole, water strider, duckweed, apple blossom, oak apple, and 

 clothes moth. These are arranged in the order of the 

 seasons, beginning with fall, but suggestions are given for 

 studying many of the specimens throughout their entire life 

 histories. 



^ The lessons throw light on unfamiliar sides of familiar 

 things, and afford a basis for future scientific studies, especially 

 along biological lines. They are correlated with drawing 

 and language in such a way that sketching and composition 

 writing may lead to closer observation of the specimens, and 

 that nature study may afford interesting and inspiring subjects 

 for expression with pencil and pen. 



^ The use of the laboratory method throughout the book 

 arouses the enthusiasm of the pupil, because it gives him 

 something to do in which he is naturally interested. His 

 power and love of observation are developed, and the out- 

 door world takes on an added charm. The work is so 

 clearly outlined that the greatest success can be attained even 

 by teachers who have had no previous knowledge of the sub- 

 ject, provided only that they are learners with their pupils. 



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