CHAPTER VIL-lNTERflEDIATE COURSE OF STUDY. 



"Spacious and fair is the world; yet oh ! how I thank a kind heaven, 

 That I a garden possess, small though it be, yet mine own. 



One which enticeth me homewards; why should a gardener wander ? 

 Honor and pleasure he finds, when to his garden he looks." Goethe. 



Fourth Grade. Agricultural Phase. Age of Cultivated Plants. 



CENTRAL FALL THOUGHT; Storage of Food by Animals, Plants and Man. 



Live rabbits in school-room, or on grounds; structure, habits, food, enemies, adaptation. 



Failure to store food and consequent disadvantages. 

 Beets, carrots, turnips, kohlrabi, cabbage, parsnips from children's garden. 



Plant storage in root, leaf and stem. 

 Utilization of this food by rabbit, other animals and man. 



Methods and reasons for cooking vegetables. 

 Pet squirrel in school-room, or on grounds, if procurable. 

 Comparison with the rabbit as to structure, habits, food, enemies. 

 Find reasons for differences between rabbit and squirrel. 

 Homes of squirrels, storage of food and advantages. 



Study of oak, hickory and walnut. 

 Storage of food in nuts and utilization by squirrel and man. 



Varieties of squirrels and rabbits by pictures and stories. 

 Other gnawers as; beavers, ground-hogs, muskrats, prairie-dogs, mice, rats, etc. 



Comparison of teeth of cat, dog, sheep, gnawers and man. 

 Corn, wheat, oats, rye, barley and buckwheat from children's gardens. 

 Gathering and threshing of grains illustrated by the hands. 

 Use of knife, sickle, scythe, reaper and binder by pictures. 



Storage of the white powder (starch) in grains. 

 Physical properties of starch and test with dilute iodine solution. 



Manufacture starch from potatoes. 



Thanksgiving Theme: Food. Have children collect and distribute to nejedy. 



Before weather is too cold arrange some beds of bulbous plants for spring; 



tulips, daffodils, hyacinths, snowdrops, crocus, June lilies, etc. 



CENTRAL WINTER THOUGHT; Use of Stored Vegetable Food in the Home. 



Why the growing of vegetables and grains required a settled life. 

 Opportunities afforded for a better and larger home. 

 Have the children unite in the construction of a log cabin. 

 Mould from clay small bricks and allow to dry. 



From these bricks construct an adobe house. 

 Stand some of these dry bricks in water and observe effect. 



Thoroughly dry some bricks and heat intensely in a furnace or anthracite $tove. 

 Stand these "burned brick" in water and observe. 

 The making, drying and burning of household pottery. 

 In small vials, one for each child, dissolve in water some sugar or salt. Taste. 



Using a glass funnel and filter-paper filter a solution of the same and taste. 

 Evaporate water, condense some of the vapor for tasting and recover substance dissolved. 



Try to dissolve starch in cold water, filter and test with iodine. 

 Boil a little starch in water, filter and test for starch. Conclusions ? 



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