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LESSONS IN ELEMENTARY SCIENCE. 

 LONGMANS' OBJECT LESSONS. Hints on Pre- 

 paring and Giving Them. With full Notes of Com- 

 plete Courses of Lessons on Elementary Science. 



By David Salmon, Principal of the Training College, Swansea ; Revised 

 and Adapted to American Schools by John F. Woodhull, Professor 

 of Methods of Teaching Natural Science in the New York College for 

 the Training of Teachers. i2mo, 246 pages. 152 Illustrations. 

 Mailing Price, $1,10. 



PART I. — HINTS on PREPARING AND GIVING LESSONS. 



Should Science be Taught? — When should Science Teaching Begin? — 

 Subjects of Lessons — Matter of Lessons — Notes of Lessons — Illustrations — 

 Language — Questions — Telling and Eliciting — Emphasis — Summary — Re- 

 capitulation. (Pp. 1-36.) 



PART II. — NOTES OF LESSONS. 



First Year. — (a) Lessons on Common Properties, {b) Lessons on Common 

 Animals, {c) Lessons on Plants. 



Second Year. — ((7) Lessons on Common Properties, {b) Lessons on Animals, 

 (r) Lessons on Plants. 



Third Year. — {a) Lessons on Elementary Chemistry and Physics, {b) Les- 

 sons on Animals, {c) Lessons on Flowers, 



Fourth Year. — {a) Lessons on Elementary Physics, {b) General Lessons on 

 Natural History, {c) Lessons on Elementary Botany. 



Notes of a Lesson on the Cat. — Index. (Pp. 41-238.) 



" If these lessons are given at the rate of one a week, and thoroughly re- 

 viewed from time to time, they will provide work for four or five years. Teach- 

 ers and pupils should make large use of cyclopedias and other sources of in- 

 formation. Hence the book offers a course of elementary science for lower 

 grades, leading up to the specific study of zoology, physiology, botany, chem- 

 istry, physics, and geology, which are to be undertaken in the higher grades." 



" A four years' course in science is here scheduled that embraces botany, 

 zoology, chemistry, and physics. The four subjects are studied throughout the 

 course, the lessons being graded to suit the stage of intellectual development of 

 the child. The plan adopted is emmently objective and inductive. . . . 

 throughout the book new knowledge gained is made the stepping-stone to some- 

 thing higher, co-ordinating not only the facts of any one science but also the 

 various sciences themselves. The process of comparing objects, in order to de- 

 termine their similarities and differences as a basis of classification, is most ad- 

 mirably developed. . . . Manuals heretofore have, as a general rule, treated 

 each object as if it were isolated from all else in the material world, and as if 

 the facts concerning that particular object were of prime importance. This 

 book subordinates the knowledge gained of particular objects to the use of ob- 

 jects as a means of exercising the powers of observation, comparison, and gen- 

 eralization." — Educational Rev ie-Ji\ N. Y. 



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