4 NATURE STUDY BY GRADES 



sion, held in 1908, to adopt text-books for the ensuing five 

 years, the author was requested to compile the lessons and 

 suggestions embodied in these outlines into a text-book, 

 a more convenient form for use in the schools. The pres- 

 ent work is the result of the agreement reached on that 

 occasion, and includes, besides the best that the monthly out- 

 lines contained, a number of lessons, suggestions, and illus- 

 trations prepared especially for these volumes. 



The work is graded carefully, so that the various topics 

 will not be repeated to the same children year after year, 

 since each grade is provided with a full year's work, adapted 

 as well as possible to the age of the pupils, and different from 

 the work given in subsequent grades. This feature one 

 most difficult to determine in some cases gives new work 

 continually and adds much to the interest and value of the 

 series. 



For this selection of topics adapted to the different grades, 

 the author is greatly indebted to the faculty of the Normal 

 Training School. They have held many meetings, discuss- 

 ing the topics chosen and the arrangement given herein ; 

 and while mistakes, perhaps, have been made that may neces- 

 sitate changes, the well-known ability of the teachers com- 

 posing the faculty gives assurance that on the whole the selec- 

 tion and arrangement are good, having been demonstrated 

 by them in actual teaching. 



If this book shall prove a helpful, suggestive manual to 

 teachers and students in their study and investigations of 

 the phenomena of nature seen in common things about them, 

 the aim of the author will have been achieved. 



H. H. C. 



SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. 



