6. Wild Neighbors Ingersoll. Macmillan & Co., 1897. 



7. Country Cousins Ingersoll. Harper Bros. 



8. Four Footed Americans Wright. Macmillan & Co. 



9. Wild Animals I Have Known Seton-Thompson. Scribner's Sons, 1900. Raggylug and Molly. 



10. Popular Natural History Wood. Porter & Coates. 



11. Friends Worth Knowing Ingersoll. Harper Bros., 1880. Wild mice. 



12. Familiar Trees and their Leaves Mathews. Appleton & Co., 1897. 



13. Stories of the Trees Dyson. Nelson & Sons, 1890. 



14. Trees in Prose and Poetry Stone and Fickett. Ginn & Co., 1902. 



15. The Oak Ward. Appleton & Co., 1900. 



16. Leaves and Acorns of our Common Oaks. Wyman. Cornell Leaflet No. 8. 



17. First Book of Forestry Roth. Ginn & Co., 1902. 



18. Domestic Science in Grammar Grades Wilson. Macmillan & Co., 1900. 



19. Woman's Share in Primitive Culture Mason. Appleton & Co., 1894. 



20. Story of Wheat Halifax. World's Events Publishing Co., 1906. 



21. Elements of the Theory and Practice of Cookery Williams & Fisher. Macmillan & Co., 1901. 



22. Bread and Bread Making. Farmer's Bulletin No. 112. 



23. School Sanitation and Decoration Burrage & Bailey. Heath & Co., 1900. 



24. Graded Lessons in Physiology and Hygiene Krohn. Appleton & Co., 1906. 



25. School Hygiene Shaw. Macmillan & Co., 1901. 



26. Story of Germ Life Conn. Appleton & Co., 1897. 



27. Our Bodies and How We Live Blaisdell. Ginn & Co. 



28. How to Make Pottery White. Doubleday, Page & Co., 1904. 



29. Real Things in Nature Holden. Macmillan & Co., 1903. 



30. Nature Study with Common Things Carter. American Book Co., 1904. 



31. Natural History Lessons Black & Carter. Holt & Co., 1892. 



32. The Maple Sugar Industry Fox & Hubbard. United States Department of Agriculture, 1905. 



33. Great American Industries Rocheleau, Volumes II and III. Flanagan, 1901. 



34. Life on the Farm Sheperd. Flanagan, 1901. 



35. The Great World's Farm Gaye. Macmillan & Co , 1894. 



36. Lessons with Plants Bailey. Macmillan & Co., 1902. 



37. The Soil King. Macmillan & Co., 1895. 



38. How Crops Feed Johnson. Orange Judd Co., 1883. 



39. Lessons in Botany Flower and Fruit. Newell. Ginn & Co., 1893. 



40. First Studies in Plant Life Atkinson. Ginn & Co., 1902. 



41. Nature Study Hodge. Flower rearing and forestry. 



42. Tree Planting on Rural School Grounds Farmer's Bulletin No. 134. 



43. About the Weather Harrington. Appleton & Co. , 1899. 



See also Third Grade list upon Agriculture. 



Fifth Grade. Communal Phase. Age of Co-operation and Mutual Helpfulness. 



CENTRAL FALL THOUGHT; Community Living and Thrift. 



Grasshopper studied afield and indoors, as to structure, habits, adaptation, food, and enemies. 

 Shiftlessness of insect, failure to provide a home, to co-operate with fellows, to store 



food and resulting consequences. 

 Varieties of grasshoppers, crickets, katy-dids, etc. 

 The hive bee studied afield and in glass observation hive as to structure, 



habits, adaptation, food and enemies. 

 Industry, co-operation, patience, thrift, loyalty, a home and abundant food supply. 



Contrast with condition of grasshopper. 

 A study of bees-wax; color, odor, taste, feel, plasticity, lightness and melting temperature. 



How produced and use in making comb. 

 Study of some old comb, shape, size, arrangement and use of cells. 



Physical properties and source of honey. 

 Propolis upon old frames; its nature, source and use by bees. 



Along with the above work take up the nasturtium in the school gardens. Study entire 

 plants and end with flowers; color, odor, shape, position, parts, markings, 



fringes, nectar in spur. 



Observe how many different kinds of insects visit the flower. 

 Starting with young flowers in water, have each child discover how the stamens 



behave and finally the pistil. 

 Meaning of this behavior and explanation of the flower characteristics. 



Idea of cross pollination but not fertilization. 

 Follow individual flowers through to the seeds. 



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