FOR THE USB OF TEACHERS. 



No. 13. 



Leaflet 



On Nature Study. 



Especially Adapted to the Use of Children in Schools 

 IN Rural Districts. 



PREPARED BY THE 



FACULTY OF PURDUE UNIVERSITY. 



Climate in Some of Its Relations to Daily Life. 



IN FOUR LESSONS. 

 By Prof. H. a. Huston. 



I. 



The weather is a continuous but very variable factor in our every- 

 day life. We accept all kinds of weather ;is a matter of course and 

 often underrate its influence on our affairs. Extremes of heat or cold, 

 great storms and unusual phenomena attract passing attention. But 

 the ordinary climatic conditions upon which so much of our comfort 

 and welfare depends are practically unnoticed. Do you know what is 

 the average temperature of the town in which you live? Do you 

 know how much rain falls about you in a year, how it is distributed 

 by months, and how it varies from year to year? The figures repre- 

 senting these facts are not exciting reading, yet the conditions that 

 they record exert a most important influence on our health, our ca- 

 pacity to work, our ability to produce or obtain food and, in fact, on 

 almost every act of our lives. Every one who has charge of workmen, 

 students or invalids understand the ill effects of a dull or unseason- 



NOTE.-Someof the topics in tliis leaflet are difliciilt ones to present 

 to very young people, bnt &n attempt has been made to simplify the lan- 

 guage as far as po.ssible, and it is hoped that much of what is found liere 

 may profitably be presented by the skillful teaclier to uiost of the cliil- 

 dren in the district schools. 



