Contents 



PART I 

 NATURE- STUDY TEACHING 



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I. What Is Nature-Study? 3 



II. Who First Used the Term Nature-Study? ^6 



III. The Meaning of the Nature-Study Movement. ... 27 



What nature-study is not 29 



The outlook by fact and by fancy 35 



How nature-study may be taught 37 



What may be the results of nature-study? 50 



IV. The Integument-Man 58 



V. Nature-Study with Plants 67 



Suggestions for plant work 70 



VI. The Growing of Plants by Children The School- 

 Garden 78 



Improving of the school-grounds 84 



The school-garden 87 



The larger relations 90 



VII. Nature-Study Agriculture 93 



A point of view on the rural-school problem... 96 



The prospect 105 



PART II 



THE TEACHER'S OUTLOOK TO NATURE 



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I. The Teacher's Interpretation of Nature 113 



II. Science for Science's Sake 117 



III. Extrinsic and Intrinsic Views of Nature 124 



IV. Must a "Use" be Found for Everything? 131 



V. The New Hunting 139 



VI. The Poetic Interpretation of Nature 151 



VII. An Outlook on Winter 161 



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