90 NATURE STUDY REVIEW [10:3— Mar., 1914 



Shape of house. What different kinds of shapes do you find among 



these houses ? Do you think one is any better than 



the others? Why? 

 Size of hole. How can we tell how big to make the hole ? Take 



a ruler and measure the holes in these houses. 

 Location of Look at this house with the nest in it and see if 



hole. you can tell where the hole ought to be bored. 



Putting up Where is the best place to put up a house? 

 house. How shall we fasten it? When should it be put 



out? 

 Similarities. In what ways are all these houses alike? These 



things we ought to notice specially when we make 



our houses. 



C. Summary. 



Which one of these houses do you think a pair of wrens 

 would like best ? Why ? 



D. Application. , 



How many think you can find a small box, or tin can, or 



some boards at home from which you can make a wren 



house? How many will make a house and bring it to 



school to show me and the class ? I will get a camera 



and take a picture of the class with their wren 



houses in their hands. Then I shall expect you to 



bring your houses next Monday. After we take the 



picture, you can carry your houses home again and 



put them up. 



Sometimes the class observes a lesson taught to children, either 



by the writer or by a teacher from the Training School. This 



lesson is carefully discussed at the next meeting of the class. 



In addition to these features that deal with individual lessons 

 there is a discussion of general suggestions on teaching, touching 

 on correlation with literature and drawing, uses of colored plates, 

 study of nests, reports of children's observations, calendars, 

 attracting birds, and field work. 



An outline of bird study for the grades is prepared, divided 

 first according to the age of the children into primary, intermediate 

 and grammar grades ; and then each of these is divided according 

 to seasons into fall, winter, and spring work. 



When the students do their practice teaching in the Training 

 School, some of them teach nature-study. Here the suggestions, 



