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NATURE STUDY 



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Direct their attention to the weather vanes of the 

 neighborhood. Let them discover that the vane always 

 points toward the direction from which the wind comes. 

 It is very simple with a knitting needle, cardboard, and 

 a cubical block to make the model of a 

 weather vane, which the children may, 

 by turns, keep in accordance with facts. 

 Teach them to estimate the velocity 

 of the wind roughly by applying such 

 words as calm, light, moderate, strong, 

 gale. 



Let the children keep a record of 

 the direction and velocity of the wind 

 on the blackboard. It would be well to have the observa- 

 tions made at stated intervals before school, at noon, and, 

 perhaps, just at the close of school, until the fact of 

 variation is established. 



The clouds should be observed and described when- 

 ever an excursion is taken ; but it will be easier for the 

 teacher, at least, if, to teach the names, she chooses days 

 when the clouds are comparatively simple. 



The following is suggested as a blackboard record for 

 the wind : 



Wind Becord for the Month of 18. 



Observations made at 



