comstock] A GRADED COURSE IN BIRD STUDY 



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Mr. Alfred Emerson, Jr., devised the following plan for teaching 

 third^and fourth grade children the habits of common birds. Each 

 pupil gathered one or more nests and mounted each one in a collar box. 

 This box is mounted on stiff cardboard and beside it a colored outline 

 of the species of birds that built it. On the same card was the story 

 written by the child covering the following points. 1. Name of bird; 

 2. In what kind of tree or bush and how far from the ground was the 

 nest; 3. Of what was it made; 4i With what was it lined. 5. Where in 

 the tree and how far from the ground was the nest placed; 6. The 

 measure of the width and depth of the nest; 7. The color, the number 

 of eggs laid by this bird and the time of nesting. 



