AGRICULTURAL NATURE STUDY OUTLINES 
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II. OUTLINES FOR SECOND GRADE 
1. Human Needs, Interests, and Activities 
Summer vacation experiences .—Outings, picnics, fishing trips, 
visits to friends or relatives, etc. Work done by the children about 
the home, in the garden, or in the fields. New things they have learned 
since school closed in the spring. 
Health lessons .—Talks about good articles of food for the various 
meals. Proper breakfast materials, summer and winter, for children, 
as eggs, milk, fruit, cereals. Manners in eating. Thorough chewing 
and proper digestion. The school lunch, character, and how eaten. 
Ways of making the school lunch more hygienic. Duty of the home and 
the school. The muscles. Development through activity, as in work 
and play. Muscular activity and good food and fresh air. The hands 
and nails, why kept clean? Comfortable shoes and frequent bathing 
of the feet, why important? The eye, its importance and care. 
Proper light for reading. Danger in x>oor light. AVhen to use glasses. 
Testing the eyesight. Proper lighting of a schoolroom. Things to be 
observed in the care of the ear. Danger of sudden and loud noises. 
Deafness, cause and inconvenience. The pleasant voice and how 
acquire it. 
Seasonal activities .—Kinds of work performed on the farm 
throughout the year. Children report on practice of farmers in pre¬ 
paring the ground for seeding, setting out trees, for irrigation, etc. 
Preparations for the home garden. Why cultivate the growing crops ? 
What is done with the various crops after they are harvested? What 
did each child do in the various farming operations? 
2. Plant Life throughout the Year 
Garden crops .—Name different plants growing in the garden. 
AVhen was the seed planted? What care has the garden received 
during the summer ? Mention any vegetables in the garden that have 
gone to seed, as radish, lettuce, peas, corn, beans, etc. Gather some 
seed and save for planting in the garden in the spring. Study in 
detail the radish or lettuce plant gone to seed, noting root, stem, 
blossom, seed pods, and seeds. Any vine crops in the garden. During 
winter months arouse interest in the children for the spring garden 
work. Children help to make the window garden in the schoolroom. 
Preparatory talks on the kind of box to hold the soil, the best kind of 
