24 NATURE STUDY BY GRADES 



Have a play house ; a play store. 



Make an aquarium, if it be only a half-gallon glass jar, 

 and stock it with animal life. 



Make window boxes, or get flower pots for plants and 

 have flowers in the schoolroom windows. 



Clean and keep orderly the school grounds. 



Make useful things in the sloyd or manual training room, 

 if there be one. 



Dry fruits in their proper season. 



Dig a potato pit and store some potatoes for winter. 



Cut and paste pictures on charts to illustrate lessons. 



Hem dust cloths and do other simple sewing. 



Do special decorative work, etc., for holidays. 



Visit the State Fair and study the various exhibits. Base 

 lessons on what interests the children there. 



Make bows and arrows and teach their uses. 



Pupils may aid in many experiments to illustrate prin- 

 ciples taught in nature study. 



Make varied observations of natural phenomena. Col- 

 lect specimens. 



The teacher, familiar with the environment of the children, 

 will think of many more activities, and may omit such of 

 the above as prove to be impracticable for her school. 



Correlation. The foregoing activities, and much of 

 the work mentioned in the lesson outlines, may be made to 

 furnish material as well for lessons in geography, language, art, 

 and reading as for lessons in nature study. In fact, the 

 work in the lower grades should be so unified that the reci- 

 tations in all these branches need not be differentiated in 

 the minds of the pupils. They correlate closely and natu- 

 rally, and form simply different parts of a daily educative 

 experience under the guidance of the teacher, 



