UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



Contribution from the States Relations Service 

 A. C. TRUE, Director 



Washington, D. C. 



PROFESSIONAL PAPER 



November 11, 1915 



EXERCISES WITH PLANTS AND ANIMALS FOR 

 SOUTHERN RURAL SCHOOLS. 1 



By E. A. Miller, Specialist in Agricultural Education. 



CONTENTS. 



Page. 



Introduction 1 



September 2 



October 12 



November 21 



December 30 



January 37 



February 43 



March 49 



April and May 55 



Appendix 61 



INTRODUCTION. 



The purpose of this bulletin is to set forth simple exercises with 

 plants and animals arranged after a monthly sequence plan for the 

 first five grades in southern rural schools. The monthly sequence 

 plan is followed so that plants and animals may be studied at a time 

 when they are most interesting. The monthly exercises provide 

 work for each of the first five grades of the public school. Practical 

 exercises and field trips are suggested. If the best results are to be 

 obtained each pupil should be required to have notebooks and keep 

 records of the observations made and the information secured. In 

 connection with each exercise correlations with other subjects are 

 given. These are intended to be suggestive, but if the idea is followed 

 out and supplemented the ordinary public school branches may be 

 greatly vitalized. It is intended that this publication shall serve as 

 iiii approach to tins study of formal or textbook agriculture in the 

 upper elementary grades. 



It is to be understood that this is in no sense a textbook, but a 

 guide for the teacher. There may be communities to which all the 

 exercises given here are not adapted, but in that event they should 

 prove sufficiently suggestive to be helpful to the teacher in planning 



1 Prepared under the direction of C. u. Lane, Chief Specialist In Agricultural Education. 

 Mote. Thla bulletin j i Intended especially for the u$e of runii uhooi mmi-Ikt:; in the Southern states. 



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