PALMER CORNELL RURAL SCHOOL LEAFLET 211 



to their original perch. The third year of a child's school work 

 he would return to a consideration of the group studied the first 

 year and he may or may not study the same example of that 

 group. The fourth year he would return to the group he studied 

 the second year, and so on through the eight years. 



Agriculture and Home Making. 



A wise decision was made when it was advised that the seventh 

 and eighth years of work along nature-study lines be largely 

 agricultural. The plan outlined organizes the work for the sev- 

 enth and eighth grades so that the whole field of subject matter 

 works in nicely. This work may or may not be done as organ- 

 ized project work. The types selected are chosen with the view 

 that they will lead up to some home-making or agricultural proj- 

 ect. The study of sugar-producing plants in nature study creates 

 an excellent background for the use of sugars as food in a home- 

 making lesson. The study of rabbit tracks as nature study 

 in the lower grades creates an interest in rabbits which may be 

 reared as projects or served as a portion of a well balanced meal. 

 It is neither necessary or advisable that any rural school take 

 up all of the projects oiitlined for the seventh and eighth grades. 

 The outline merely shows how any of the nature study lessons 

 may be associated with an agricultural or homemaking project. 

 It will probably be found wise to have the girls confine their work 

 to one project and the boys to another and allow them to work 

 on these projects during the nature study period, providing 

 their services are not needed in helping the teacher with the young- 

 er children. We all learn by teaching and the older boys will 

 grow in ability and power by making birds baths, bird houses 

 and feeding stations for the school. The older girls will learn 

 additional things about the part of the landscape birds care for 

 if they help the smaller children with their cut-out pictures. 



Humaneness. 



The New York State law requires that humaneness be taii^lit 

 in the schools of the State and it includes a clause to t]ie effect 

 that the assistance of state money may be withheld from tliose 

 schools which do not live up to this requirement. Many teacli- 



