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Washington, D.C. PROFESSIONAL PAPER November 11, 1915 
EXERCISES WITH PLANTS AND ANIMALS FOR 
SOUTHERN RURAL SCHOOLS:.' 
By HE. A. Miter, Specialist in Agricultural Education. 
CONTENTS. 
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AmEROMUEHIONM ase sete fe oe el. ek ae Tea Ui aMANy: (Shee) eke aime sone Ae: PRE Lee em 37 
SEMUEMROG?. -ShG8s be bee sapere aeae ee Zielebebruaryase. =< PSAs eae Sone eee Se 43 
OGiDOOR: . oo cde ES aa ee ater ee aee Ua pia Chimie saa oh et Gl ne oo ae eee 49 
INOW OSE 5 Sa RNS SR Oe ae ee ee DAMN esAc rilvam de Mia yeas 4: heres cece tly Mey een ames 58 
MECermberetne seas a eeclewee ae Se Mee 20 cA pen Ginga 4) Jers aescory. Gees eee PE eee 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 eee ed. 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 
sreatly vitalized. It is intended that this publication shall serve as 
an approach to the study of formal or textbook ee in the 
upper elementary grades. 
Jt 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. H. Lane, Chief Specialist in Agricultural Education. 
Norte.—This bulletin is intended especially for the use of rural school teachers in the Southern States. 
§394°—Bull. 305—15——1 
