APPENDIX B. 

 COURSE OF STUDY. 



It is practically impossible to prepare in detail a schedule of work in 

 nature-study that will have much value beyond that of suggestion. The 

 aspects of nature vary greatly, and the subject-matter selected for the curricu- 

 lum must vary in a way that corresponds. 



The following outlines, selected from a year's work given in the author's 

 Nature Study and Related Subjects, are submitted with a view to indicating 

 certain typical selections of subject-matter based largely upon seasonal con- 

 ditions, and also the relations of other subjects to nature-study. It must be 

 understood that this is not an attempt to make nature-study the organizing 

 center of the curriculum; it merely tries to show some of the things which 

 the pupil will be interested in, most likely, and it offers suggestions as to how 

 some other subjects may be used to assist in the development of the nature- 

 picture. Three months, September, January, and June, representing the 

 extremes of seasonal conditions are presented. These charts and the remain- 

 ing ones for the year are described in detail in the author's book above noted. 



References for September. — (Numbers correspond to those found in the 

 charts, Appendix B.) (i) Population of an Old Pear Tree (Macmillan) ; (2) 

 Readings in Nature's Story Book (American Book Co.) ; (3) Living Creatures of 

 Land, Water, and Air (American Book Co.) ; (4) Flyers, Creepers and Swim- 

 mers (American Book Co.) ; (5) This Continent of Ours, King; (6) Entertain- 

 ments in Chemistry (Interstate Publishing Co.) ; (7) World of Matter (D. C. 

 Heath & Co.) ; (8) Normal Course in Reading (Silver, Burdett & Co.). 



References for January. — (1) Seaside and Wayside, No. 4 (Heath & Co.) ; 

 [(2) Seaside and Wayside, No. 3 ; (3) Readings in Nature's Story Book (American 

 Book Co.) ; (4) Normal Course in Readmg ; (5) Hooker's Cliild's Book of Nature 

 (American Book Co.) ; (6) Story of our Continent (Ginn & Co.) ; (7) Storyland 

 of the Stars, Pratt; (8) Stories Mother Nature Told Her Children (Lee & 

 Shepard) ; (9) First Book in Geology (Heath & Co.) ; (10) Monteith's Science 

 Readers; (11) King's Geographical Reader, No. 2 (Lee & Shepard); (12) Com- 

 mon Minerals and Rocks ^Heath & Co.) ; (13) Leaves and Flowers (American 

 Book Co.) ; (14) Fairyland of Science (Appleton) ; (15) Heart of Oak, Book I 

 (Heath & Co.) ; (16) Heroes of Science; Botany, Geology, Zoology (E. & J. B. 

 Young & Co., New York); (17) Normal Course in Reading; (18) Pioneers of 

 Science, Lodge. On Foods: Human Body, Martin (Holt & Co.) ; Chemistry of 

 Cooking and Cleaning, Richards (Estes & Lauriat). 



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