A GRADED COURSE OF NATURE-STUDY 501 



subject,* using perhaps some elementary text-book : Muscles, 

 bones,* digestion and digestive organs,* food, cooking, blood, 

 heart* and blood vessels, respiration* and lungs, the relation 

 between food, respiration, and energy. Exercise, games. 

 Ventilation.* 



Bacteria and disease. Sanitation. The Board of Health. 



The eye,* ear,* and other special sense organs. Nerves 

 and brain,* their uses. Anesthetics, surgery, antiseptics. 

 The hospital. Nursing, invalid food. Emergency rules. 

 Temperance, smoking. Illustrate well with observations 

 on body, with material from the meat market, models, 

 diagrams, pictures, experiments, and possibly the dissection 

 of a frog. Keep to the simple. Let pupils make simple 

 diagrams. 



References: 380, 370, 381, 381a, 385, 368a, 373, 368, 371, 

 372, 209, 375, 387, 386, 295. 



Autumn 

 Animals. 



In connection with geography study the distribution of 

 animals on the earth, tracing the causes that determine it. 

 Note particular adaptations to climate, element, mode of 

 life. Consider typical animals of different zones and also 

 the mountains, forests, prairies, plains, deserts, and the sea. 

 Consider the natural barriers of climate, water areas, and 

 mountains in migration. Discuss island fauna, taking the 

 typical animals of Australia. Very simply discuss the rea- 

 son for this peculiar fauna. (33, 34, 18, 21, 22, 64, 44, Gil- 

 bert and Brigham's Physical Geography, Redway's Physical 

 Geography, other geographies.) 



Study of man: Begin with primitive man. Discuss his 



