APPENDIX I 

 PUPIL AND SCHOOLROOM EQUIPMENT 



Note-books and drawings. — Each pupil should have 

 a note-book of about 8 x lo inches, opening at the end, 

 in which both drawings and notes can be made. The paper 

 should be unruled and of good quality (not too soft). Each 

 pupil should make the drawings called for in connection 

 with the study of the various animals considered in this 

 book. These drawings should be in outline, and put in 

 by pencil; the lines may be inked over if preferred. Each 

 drawing and all the animal parts represented in it should 

 be fully named. Notes should be made of any observations 

 which cannot be represented in the drawings, for example, 

 on the behavior of living animals. All notes referring to 

 matters of life-history should be dated. 



Scattered through this book will be found numerous 

 suggestions for student field-work, for the observation of the 

 life-history and habits and conditions of animals in nature. 

 The initiation and direction of such work is left to the teacher. 

 But its importance, both because of its instructiveness and 

 its interest, is great. Pupils should not only be incited to 

 make individual observations whenever and wherever they 

 can, but the teacher should make little field-excursions 

 with the class, or with parts of it, at various times, to ponds 

 or streams or woods, and "show things" to all. The life- 

 history and feeding-habits of insects, the web-making of 

 spiders, the flight, songs, nesting and care of young of birds, 

 the haunts of fishes, the development of frogs, toads, and 

 salamanders, the home-building and feeding-habits of 

 squirrels, mice, and other familiar mammals are all (as has 

 been called attention to at proper places in the book) specially 

 fit subjects for field-observation. 



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