Contents 



PART I 



Nature- Study Teaching 



PAGE 



I. What Is Nature-Study? 3 



II. Who First Used the Term Nature-Study? i6 



III. The Meaning of the Nature-Study Movement 27 



What nature-study is not 29 



The outlook by fact and by fancy 35 



How nature-study may be taught 37 



What may be the results of nature-study? 50 



IV. The Integument-Man 5^ 



V. Nature-Study with Plants 67 



Suggestions for plant work 7^ 



VI. The Growing of Plants by Children— The School- 

 Garden 78 



Improving of the school-grounds 84 



The school-garden 87 



The larger relations 9° 



VII. Nature-Study Agriculture 93 



A point of view on the rural-school problem... 96 



The prospect ^°5 



PART II 

 The Teacher's Outlook to Nature 



PAGE 

 I. The Teacher's Interpretation of Nature "3 



II. Science for Science's Sake ^^7 



III. Extrinsic and Intrinsic Views of Nature 124 



IV. Must a "Use" be Found for Everything? 131 



V. The New Hunting '39 



VI. The Poetic Interpretation of Nature 151 



VII. An Outlook on Winter '^' 



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