52 THE NATURE STUDY COURSE. 



"This work must be taken." The quoted prescription is 

 probably not intended to imply that this part is more 

 important or educative than the biological work of which it 

 may be assumed that a portion must also be taken. The 

 topics in the inanimate group are few and definite, and they 

 are sure to come within the range of experience of every 

 school, and hence they may be prescribed imperatively. 



Ontario. Form II (3rd and 4th years). Course of form I. con- 

 tinued. Animal Life : — Life history and habits of domestic animals 

 and of familiar wild animals, as the squirrel, chipmunk, robin, crow ; 

 earth-worm, habits, structure, uses ; toad, habits, structure, uses ; 

 observation of live insects and their activities, comparison of young and 

 adult stages. 



Plant Life : — Co-operative and individual work in school-garden ; 

 cultivation of plants in pots with observation of the development of 

 leaves and flowers ; parts of leaves and flowers ; change of flower to 

 fruit and of fruit to seed ; functions of the parts of flowers ; the forms 

 and uses of trees ; activities connected with forestry and lumbering, 

 with study of pioneer life and present conditions on the prairie. 



Observation of farm, garden, and household operations. 



Geography (in part). — Continued observations of local land and water 

 forms. Observations of highest points in the neighborhood, the chief 

 slopes, hills, valleys, divides, etc. Special study of a brook, creek or 

 river, to see origin, direction, size, work of draining, eroding, carrying, 

 plant and animal life along banks, etc. Representation by drawing and 

 modelling of typical surface features actually observed bj T pupil. Obser- 

 vation of weather ; Winds, direction, force ; clouds ; rainfall ; frost ; 

 changes of season ; characteristic features of each season ; systematic 

 weather records ; general notions of climate ; record of moon's phases, 

 with drawings of their appearance. People of the locality, nationalities, 

 appearance, original homes, etc.; child life in other lands. Location 

 of any places of historical interest in the neighborhood. 



Physiology and Hygiene.— Course in Form I continued. Simple 

 lessons on digestion, exercise, cleanliness, and ventilation. Lessons on 

 the organs of the body, that can be taught by the Nature Study 

 Method. General effects of tea, coffee, alcohol and tolwicco. 



Aut. — Free drawing of plants and other common objects. Water- 

 colors of flowers and leaves with autumn tints, butterflies, birds, fish, 

 etc., clay modelling of apple, beet, banana, etc. 



