CHOICE OF TOPICS. 19 



and discretion. Seek here and not in the number of sciences 

 the teacher knows for the highest test of his efficiency. 



The whole environment of the child is the field of Nature 

 Study. It may for convenience be divided and subdivided 

 and the subdivisions arranged with regard to the order of 

 the usual development of the children's interest in them. 



A. Animate Nature : 



Man: (1) Family and social relations, — food, recre- 

 ations, etc. 



(2) Occupations in home, farm, factory, 



forest, etc. 



(3) Human physiology. 



Animals : (1) Household pets and farm animals. 



(2) Birds and local wild animals. 



(3) Insects. 



(4) Cold-blooded animals : turtles, snakes, 



frogs, fishes, crustaceans, etc. 



(5) Animal physiology. 



Plants : (1) Cultivated and wild flowers. 



(2) House plants and garden plants. 



(3) Farm crops, seeds, fruits, buds. 



(4) Forest, shade and orchard trees and 



shrubs. 



(5) Weeds and innocent wild plants. 



(6) Toadstools and other inferior plants. 



(7) Plant societies. 



(8) Vegetable physiology. 



