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10. The use of the story as a supplement to the nature study lesson. 
pp. 10, 11. 
11. Rules for making the field notebook a success, pp. 13, 14. 
a. Especially observe last rule on top page 14. 
12. How to avoid the dangers of the field excursion, p. 15. 
V. Dangers of Nature Study. 
A. Coulter and Patterson, pp. 29-45. 
1. The teacher, pp. 29-31. 
2. What constitutes dead work? pp. 31-33. 
3. Confusion between “terminology” and knowledge, pp. 33, 34. 
4. Meaning of factitious interest, pp. 34-36. 
5. Danger of unwarranted inferences, pp. 36-38. 
6. Danger of sentimentality, pp. 38-40. 
7. Dangers of book dependence, pp. 40, 41. 
8. Use of outlines, pp. 41-44. 
9. Hopeful outlook, pp. 44-45. 
VI. Summary of Educative Results of Nature Study. 
A. Coulter and Patterson, pp. 25-28. 
1. A sustained interest in natural objects and the phenomena of nature. 
p. 26. 
2. Independence in observation and influence, p. 26. 
3. Some conception of what an exact statement is. p. 27. 
4. Some conception of what constitutes proof, p. 27. 
B. Bailey, pp. 50-57. 
1. Its legitimate result is? p. 50. 
2. Gives relaxation from formal school work. p. 51. 
3. Develops personality and encourages thinking, p. 52. 
4. Tends toward simplicity of living. 
5. Puts new force and enthusiasm into the school and the child, p. 52. 
6. Nature study spirit stands for a normal outlook on life. p. 53. 
7. Sets our thinking in the direction of our daily doing, p. 54. 
8. Brings the child into natural relations with the world, p. 54. 
9. Nature study teaching to utilize as a means of education the tools 
a boy or girl naturally uses. p. 55. 
10. Observations on self has a remarkable significance to health, p. 55. 
11. The public and social value of nature study, p. 57. 
VII. Nature Study and Agriculture. 
A. Comstock, pp. 21, 22. 
1. Agriculture cannot be worked out by rules because nature varies. 
p. 21. 
2. Nature study and agriculture based upon the study of life and 
physical conditions which encourage or limit life. p. 21. 
3. Nature furnishes materials and laboratories on every farm. p. 21. 
4. Child in nature study makes progress by understanding laws of life. 
p 21. 
5. Child in nature study learns: 
a. How a plant grows; 
b. Adaptation of roots; 
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