PREFACE 



THE position of Nature Work in the school curriculum is 

 established. It has passed the experimental stage. Its value 

 as an educational factor is recognized. 



The object in introducting " Nature Study Made Easy " into 

 the classroom is twofold : 



(a) To make easy for the teacher the task of bringing the 

 child of ten or eleven years of age to realize some of the 

 elementary truths of Nature seen in the world of plants 

 around him. 



(&) To make intelligible to the child, by exercising his 

 observation and exciting his interest, the wonderful lessons 

 that the Plant World daily unfolds to him. 



In view of this fact much illustrative matter is brought 

 before the class. Pupils are directed to gather their own 

 materials and bring them to the classroom, to work out and 

 record their own experiments, to grow their own plants. This 

 puts a personal element into the study. 



The lessons are given in a simple, pleasing manner ; a 

 second lesson, in different form, sometimes following the first, 

 to impress or fix it. 



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