574 NATURE STUDY. 



Summary. Get from children such statements as those 

 below, write on blackboard, and read to or with them or 

 have them read. 



Mother Nature told Mother Bean that winter was coming. 

 Mother Bean made a cradle for her babies. 

 She put five babies in a cradle. 

 She put a coat on each baby. 

 : The cold did not hurt them. 

 They slept all winter. 

 Now they want to wake up. 



We will help them. We have put them in the ground. 

 The dirt and the sun and the water will help. 



LESSON II. WAKING UP. 



Preparatory observations. Have children examine each 

 day the seeds in the glasses. Help them, so far as ne- 

 cessary, in observing how the seed swells, how the coat 

 wrinkles and then becomes smooth, how and where the 

 little white pointed " foot " comes out, how fast it grows 

 (measure), how its branches first appear as knobs and how 

 they grow, how it splits and sometimes pushes off the coat 

 of the seed-baby, how the " foot " insists on growing down- 

 ward and will not grow upward. To show latter, place, in a 

 moist saucer, bean with "foot" (or "radicle" or 'fcaulicle") 

 half an inch or more in length, pinning it through the coty- 

 ledons to a cork with the point of the radicle upward, and 

 cover with an inverted tumbler, so that the air around it 

 will keep moist. In a few hours the radicle will bend 

 downward. If again fastened with point upward, it will 

 again bend downward. The pea is somewhat better than 

 the bean for this and similar experiments. 



When the children have- considerable to tell, have a les- 

 son. A week or more may intervene between Lesson I. 

 and Lesson IL 



