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lined for the fifth and sixth grades. The still older children in 

 this group can finish this work more quickly than the younger 

 ones and go on to the work outlined for the seventh and eighth 

 grades. In taking up a new subject, all must begin as "little 

 children." 



A Type Nature-Study Period, 



If the children in your school have never used the material 

 in the Leaflet according to any system, it is well to consider 

 the following suggestion showing how a lesson may be taught 

 to a whole school at once in such a manner that all may be kept 

 busy. 



Suppose for example at the beginning of the nature study 

 period some child reports that on his way to school he saw some 

 rather small birds flying around in the air. After he tells all 

 that he can about the birds the teacher may for guidance refer 

 to the outline given at the end of this article. One page of this 

 outline deals with birds and it will be seen that a part of this page 

 deals with birds found feeding in the air. Under this section, 

 reference is m.ade to Volume XIV, No. 4 of the Cornell Rural 

 School Leaflet. This means that that number of the Leaflet 

 should be a source of information- for studying birds that feed 

 in the air just as the M section of the dictionary gives you guid- 

 ance for information concerning words beginning with M. 



A copy of Volume XIV, No. 4 of the Cornell Rural School 

 Leaflet has been sent to every rural school in the state and should 

 have been left in the library. Those schools whose teachers 

 requested additional copies have enough copies for each child. 

 Under these circumstances it should be safe to imply that every 

 rural school has access to this material. 



Volume XIV, No. 4 of the Leaflet contains a chapter dealing 

 with birds found feeding in the air. These birds are called the 

 ceiling cleaners. This chapter m.ay be read to or by the pupils 

 and should give the school some clue as to what the bird seen 

 might be. It may be decided for example that it is a bam rwal- 

 low. So far at least the lesson m_ay be carried on by the school 

 as a whole. 



Reference to the outline at the end of this article suggests 

 that the use of the cut out pictures will give profitable work for 



