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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA 
COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE 
AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION TUr’ c [ c ' 
ITLINES OF COURSE OF INSTRUCTION IN 
GRICULTURAL NATURE STUDY FOR THE 
RURAL SCHOOLS OF CALIFORNIA 
By O. J. KERN 
Assistant Professor of Agricultural Education 
February, 1923 
The following pages contain suggestive material for the use of 
teachers in the Rural Elementary School or in any elementary school 
in California for that matter. The teacher is urged to make selection 
suitable to her own environment. 
A. The material that follows is grouped under four general topics, 
viz.: 
1. Human Needs, Interests, and Activities. 
2. Plant Life throughout the Year. 
3. Animal Life throughout the Year. 
4. Natural Phenomena and the Inorganic World, and Soil 
Studies. 
B. Since human needs are considered, the physiology and hygiene 
for the first six grades are included in nature study. The instruction 
in physiology and hygiene may be given during the worst weather of 
the winter months, when there is more need of emphasizing the care 
of the body and the observance of health conditions in general. 
Besides, this work lends itself to indoor instruction when weather 
conditions forbid much outdoor work. If desired, an elementary text 
as Health Lessons, The Body in Which We Live, etc., may be used as 
a health reader in the Third, Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth grades. Of 
course for the First and Second grades all instruction in health lessons 
and nature study is oral. 
I. OUTLINES FOR FIRST GRADE 
Children of the First and Second grades want to know their 
environment in a large, general way and are not old enough to be 
interested in minute details. 
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