UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



BULLETIN No. 281 $ 



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Contribution front the States Relations Service 

 A. C. TRUE, Director 



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Washington, D. C. 



August 12, 1915 



CORRELATING AGRICULTURE WITH THE PUBLIC 

 SCHOOL SUBJECTS IN THE NORTHERN STATES. 



By C. H. Lane, Chief Specialist in Agricultural Education, and F. E. Heald, Assistant 



in Agricultural Education. 



CONTENTS. 



Page. 



Introduction 1 



The plan 2 



How the teacher may organize a club 2 



Prizes 4 



How to keep up the club interest 5 



School-exhibit day 5 



September - 6 



October 9 



November 12 



December 14 



January 16 



February IS 



March 20 



April 22 



May and June 24 



Correlation supplements 25 



INTRODUCTION. 



Home projects 1 as a part of the regular instruction in elementary 

 agriculture promise to afford the teacher a most potent means of 

 making the subject sufficiently concrete and practical. Too often 

 the teaching begins and ends with the assignment and recitation of 

 lessons from the pages of a textbook. By projecting the work of the 

 school into the home in the vital way in which home projects do, it 

 enlists the interest of parents and becomes the means of their edu- 

 cation in this subject, thus affecting quickly the work on the farms 

 of the community. 



The purpose of this bulletin is to suggest some ways and means 

 by which the public-school teacher may utilize home projects in 

 correlating agriculture and farm problems with the regular school 

 work. 



1 The term "home project," applied to instruction in elementary and secondary agriculture, includes 

 each of the following requisites: (1) There must be a plan for work at home covering a season more or less 

 extended, (2) it must be a part of the instruction in agriculture of the school, (3) there must be a problem 

 more or less new to the pupil, (4) the parents and pupil should agree with the teacher upon the plan, (5) 

 some competent person must supervise the home work, (6) detailed records of time, method, cost, and in- 

 come must be honestly kept, and ( 7) a written report based on the record must be submitted to the teacher. 

 This report may be in the form of a booklet. 



Note. — This bulletin is prepared especially for the use of rural school teachers in the Northern States. 

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