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en Announcement for Teachers and School 
Please Post 
Bulletin Boards 
BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN | 
Lessons, Lectures, and Field Trips 
on 
Nature Study, Geography, and Gardening 
SEPTEMBER 25 to December 20, 1928 
TO BE GIVEN AT THE BOTANIC GARDEN 
Grades 
4A and, 4B 
Grades 
5A and 5B 
Grades 
6A and 6B 
Grades 
Junior 
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Fall wild flowers every child should know. (Lantern 
slides. specimens 
ee for your classrooms. (Specimen plants presented 
o each grade. 
‘iva hoxes-—planting and care. (Demonstration 
with living mater 
Simple classroom eae ane with plants to show how 
they live and work. (Demonstrations. 
Common oe eee family life. Lantern slides and 
field t 
ur Risa garden crops—simple noisier cal facts for 
veryday use. (Actual material. 
Grains that provide food for us—wheat, corn, rice, oats. 
(Lantern slides 
. A trip through the South—cotton, tobacco, fruits. 
Foods of the Orient—tea, rice, spices, bamboo. 
South America’s economic plant contributions —coffee, 
rubber. (Slides and motion pic 
f 
11. Geographic distribution of plants. earns m se 
s.) 
The cacao industry. (Slides and motion pictur 
(F 
. Ecologic factors in plant life. field trips. 
Plant life as seen in the Botanic Garden greenhouses. 
. Plant life from infancy to old age. 
. Indoor Culture of bulbs, (IDeInOnerE ations. ) 
. Plant propagation. (Greenhouse Demonstrations.) 
. Flowers and flower arrangements. (DeaGR TE aGRS 
with materials.) 
. Fall trip around oe grounds. 
The Japanese Garden—its poten cance 
. Birds are ree: va ae to m 
. Nature’s Thanksgiving Rinne: (Given November 
-28. 
20% CNTR: greens—old tales and fables. (Given Decem- 
) 
ber 12-20. 
ote.—Principal s ang teachers should make appointments for classes at 
No 
least one wee 
k 
in a 
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— 
nce, no appointments will be made for Mondays. 
Cards for this may he obtained by writing to Miss Ellen Eddy Shaw, 
Curator of Elementary Instruction, Brook lyn Botanic Garden 
