OUR ENVIRONMENT AND HOW WE USE IT M 



cutting cloth, a knife cutting an apple, thread in a needle, pencil 

 on a pad of paper, pen in an ink bottle, stamp and an envelope, 

 cup and saucer, cracker and cheese, soap and water, baseball and 

 player's glove. If you have a party of 12, invite six at a time 

 into the room to look the things over on the table. After two 

 minutes (perhaps one minute) send them back. Give each a pencil 

 and paper warn them not to talk and have them write out a 

 list of the pairs of objects seen. Have each check their answers 

 when you read the correct list. Have a simple prize for the winner. 

 To make the game more difficult, separate the paired articles on 

 the table so that no two things to be paired will be together, but 

 ask them to make their list of pairs of things which commonly are 

 used together. 



SCIENCE CLUB ACTIVITIES 



1. A field trip to discover as many kinds of environment as 

 possible. 



2. To make a list of superstitions of your locality and find out 

 how many members of the science classes are influenced by any of 

 them. 



3. Visit a factory or a hospital to see some of the recent results 

 of science in these places. 



4. PHYSICAL VERSUS CHEMICAL 



Divide the club into two teams. One team will bring to the 

 meeting a list of important common physical changes. The 

 other team will bring in a list of important common chemical 

 changes. Have the two teams present in turn a change and argue 

 why it is important. Give a point for each important change and 

 see which team runs up the largest score. Choose some dis- 

 interested party to act as umpire to decide questionable points. 



REFERENCE READING 



Darrow, F. L., Boys' Own Book of Science. Macmillan, 1923. 



Darrow, F. L., The Story of Chemistry. Bobbs-Merrill, 1930. 



Harrow, Benjamin, Romance of the Atom. Boni and Liveright, 

 1927. 



Heyl, P. R., New Frontiers of Physics. Appleton, 1930. 



Hunter, G. W., and Whitford, R. C., Readings in Science. Mac- 

 millan, 1931. 



Yates, R. F., Boys' Playbook of Chemistry. Century, 1923. 



