Illustrate method of keeping time by burning candles and by hour-glass. 

 Discover that a pendulum beats time and suggest its use in regulation of clock machinery. 



Teach children to tell time by means of clock. 

 Get as many children's records of the time of rising and setting of sun necessary to discover 



that the day is growing longer. 

 Soak a variety of seeds and place in moist saw-dust, keeping one batch cold, the other warm. 



Conclusions ? 

 Discover effects of increasing warmth upon vegetation; the swelling of buds, the starting of 



grass and early weeds. 



Teach children how to read a thermometer. 

 Locate young dandelions in some loose soil, carefully remove, wash roots and place in 



suitable bottles of water for study and drawing. 



Compare the growth of these with those outside the school-room. 



Prepare series of colored drawings to show the gradual development of dandelions growing 



under natural conditions. 



Follow through the changes to be seen in single blossoms. 

 Have pupils bring in the earliest wild flower (not the plant) that they discover, keep a 



record by painting the flower on a large calendar. 

 Continue similarly the bird calendar of the first grade. 



Have a bird-day celebration. 

 Place growing plants near window, some farther back and some in a dark box with single 



opening to show search for light by leaves. 



Consider the reason for the arrangement of dandelion leaves, and then of plants in general. 

 Show how men's and children's activities are affected by the changing season. 



Give the children a second chance to rear a brood of silk-worms. 

 Follow through the development of the "wrigglers" into mosquitoes in a covered glass dish. 



Harm done to man by mosquito and prevention. 



Make "blue prints" of leaves, grasses and flowers. 



Stories of the "sun worshipers." 



SUGGESTIONS TO SECOND GRADE TEACHER. 



No formal gardening is recommended for this grade since the children are not yet able 

 to take full charge of the work and interest in plants is a matter of rather slow growth. 

 The same kind of work recommended for the first grade may still be done, the children caring 

 for beds artistically located about the grounds. The spring work of the first two grades is 

 calculated to awaken a general interest in the plants of the neighborhood that are growing 

 without cultivation, this agreeing with the historical order. The child is to be led to 

 appreciate the importance to the plant of the heat and light of the sun, and a considerable 

 variety of plants may be used for the purpose. 



The weather studies of the first grade may be extended throughout the second grade. 

 In addition to the weather calendar with colored circles, the direction of the wind may be 

 stamped across the circle with an arrow made on a rubber stamp. Send a design of the 

 arrow wanted to the Detroit Rubber Stamp Co., for estimate of cost. A common 

 "printing-pad" will also be needed to supply the ink. Note not only the changes in 

 temperature, but also the kinds of weather that accompany changes in the direction of the 

 wind; the east and west winds, as well as the north and south. Upon some unused portion 

 of blackboard draw a couple of concentric circumferences with colored crayon and attach a 

 large arrow cut from strong pasteboard, with which to indicate the direction of the wind. 

 Indicate the points of the compass, placing north at the top, and have the arrow point to the 

 direction from which the wind comes, as in the case of the weather-vane. In stamping the 

 arrows upon the weather calendar have them fly with the wind, so as to get ready for the 

 reading of a government weather map later. In the spring a graphic design for showing the 

 changes in the length of day and night and the increasing temperature will be found of 

 educational value. The length of day and night may be obtained from an almanac and a 

 series of parallel columns colored to show the relative lengths graphically. At the side of 

 this chart may be figured the scale of a thermometer and upon each column, representing each 

 day of the mouth, can be placed a dot to indicate the reading of the thermometer taken at the 

 same hour each day. These dots will be connected with a line to show the temperature 



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