SCHOOL NUMBER 
BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN 
LEAFLETS 
THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES 
Series IV Brooklyn, N. Y., April 5, 1916. No. 1 
LIST OF TALKS FOR ELEMENTARY 
SCHOOL CLASSES 
The following list of talks is the third one offered at the 
Brooklyn Botanic Garden. It differs a little from those preceding 
it in this respect, that certain talks are considered of such impor- 
tance that these are suggested for all grades. The talks that are 
recommended for different grades have been carefully selected so 
that they correlate with the nature study and the geography of 
those grades. 
We feel more than ever that it is important for the boys and 
girls of Brooklyn to become acquainted with the Garden and 
know what it has to offer. It is hoped that the children look upon 
their visits here not only in the light of an outing but as an 
opportunity for study— the sort of study which cannot be obtained 
from books, but only from living specimens. It is not an easy 
thing to conduct classes of children through the city from a school 
to such an institution as the Botanic Garden, and therefore the 
work, for which the classes come, should be well worth the 
teacher’s output of energy. These are the things we have to offer: 
The study from life of plants uncommon to our own locality, read 
of in books, difficult to see; lessons on plant life not easy to give 
in class-rooms, but with possibilities of adaptation to school con- 
ditions; talks with lantern slides carefully selected to illustrate 
the subjects; and an acquaintance with trees and wild flowers 
common to our section, with simple keys for the identification of 
the same. 
Many children visited the Garden last year because of these 
talks; they came with their teachers, they returned with their 
fathers and mothers or by themselves. Is not this what the city' 
of Brooklyn desires? One great object in education is to teach 
children how and where to obtain knowledge. 
