78 The Nature-Study Exhibition 



Nature-study from the garden, illustrate how the children are allowed 

 first to actually note and examine for themselves, and then to apply 

 the knowledge thus obtained to the lessons given them in the school- 

 room." 



It may be added that during the day's outing yearly taken 

 to the sea-side the girls found time to collect quite a number 

 of the commoner objects of the sea-shore, with which they 

 illustrated their observational notes. 



The work done at Baldovan Home Office School, 

 Dundee, was illustrated by injurious insects, barks and 

 woods of trees, cereals and other botanical exhibits. The 

 actual methods of teaching are stated to be: — 



"(a) Lectures and lessons, given principally on Saturday evenings, 

 illustrated by living and mounted specimens, and by diagrams. 



" {b) Frequent visits, with teachers, to museums and gardens, with 

 note-books, the jottings in which are extended in the school-room so 

 soon afterwards as practicable. 



" {c) General field-work, with teachers, embracing visits to stations, 

 as marked on section of local map, where special specimens are to be 

 found." 



The photographs taken by the boys at the Poplar Union 

 School showed that outdoor rambles play a part in the 

 teaching. 



The exhibits from the Morpach Industrial Board School 

 consisted of specimens of the wild flowers that grow in its 

 neighbourhood. 



"They are collected and preserved in order to illustrate a course of 

 lessons on plant-life taught in school. 



"The collection is made during the long country rambles which the 

 children take on Saturday afternoons, thus training their oljservation 

 and giving them a keener interest in their walks, as well as a better 

 knowledge of the life around them. 



"We take 'Nature-study' here under the head of 'Elementary 

 Science', but most of the lessons are given in the open air, where 

 observations can be made upon the plants as seen growing. 



" The children are encouraged to collect the finest specimens, and to 

 press them for use during recapitulation lessons given in winter. 



