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REPORT OF THE PISH AND GAME COMMISSION. 



made. In order to demonstrate the possibilities involved in work of 

 this kind, the Director of the Bureau of Education, Publicity, and 

 Research, addressed a meeting of teachers, and conducted several field 

 trips in Sacramento. Classes of fifth graders were taken to the city 

 parks and to the outskirts of the city, and were taught the names and 

 habits of the different forms of life encountered. Partly as a result of 

 this endeavor, nature study and trips afield have been permanently 



Fig. 63. Fifth graders of Sacramento public schools being taught the fundamentals 

 of game conservation at Southside Park, where many waterfowl are to 

 be found on the lake. Photograph by H. C. Bryant. 



established in the public schools of Sacramento. It is hoped that other 

 cities will soon recognize the value of teaching children to ''read a 

 roadside as they read a book," and will institute similar work. The 

 ultimate goal, of course, is to have nature study supervisors in every 

 city in the state, each with planned courses of study which shall include 

 field trips where children may learn to study wild life at first hand. To 

 this end proper training of prospective teachers is fundamental. When 

 teachers are asked to take up nature study they either complain that 

 they have not had the training to fit them for the work, or that no 

 material is available. The attempt therefore is being made to stimulate 

 interest in this phase of education in our normal schools, universities, 

 and colleges, and to furnish, in the form of leaflets and bulletins, 

 material which will be useful to such teachers. 



