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FIFTH GRADE. 



SEPTEMBER. 

 PLANTS. 



Make collection of fruits fleshy, stone, dry. Compare color, tex- 

 ture of covering; color, texture, and marking of pit; parts of flower 

 developed into fruit. 



Fermentation: Place bottles of grape, apple, peach juice where 

 cool, warm, light and dark. Note effect and conditions most favor- 

 able to it. During fermentation place a lighted taper in jar; effect 

 upon flame. What might force the cork out? 



ANIMALS. 



Make breeding cage, collect larvae on tomato, cabbage, milkweed, 

 caraway, maple, oak, chestnut. Supply appropriate food; watch 

 changes. 



MINERALS. 



1. Pebbles. Make collections; distinguish 



(a) River, ocean; life history of each. 



(b) Glacial; life history of each. 



(c) Conglomerates; life history of each. 



(d) Breccia; life history of each. 



NOTE. Children should now be able to do some independent work, and sup 

 plement the work of the school by making their own collections. An effort 

 should be made to form and properly label and catalogue a collection. 



A collection of leaves pressed and mounted will serve to identify related trees 

 and plants. Seeds of different fruits may be preserved in bottles or jars and 

 neatly labelled. 



During the year they should learn the life histories of the most common in- 

 sects their form, color, marking, movements, food, habits, homes. As the eggs 

 and skins are difficult to preserve, they can be painted or drawn and the cocoons 

 chrysalids, and adult insects preserved. A few clear related ideas based upon 

 individual observation are of more value than much haphazard information. 



Observe formation of pebbles in a stream bed; compare with those in gravel 

 pits; what does a gravel pit suggest? Do you find pebbles of different color, 

 hardness, composition? Compare them with the rock in your neighborhood. 

 What results from the formation of pebbles? 



