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c. Natural phenomena and tools. 
d. Appropriate material affords what two oportunities to children 
of these grades. 
e. Value and importance of developing responsibility. 
9. Characteristics of children of grammar grades, p. 79. 
a. Experiences and knowledge. 
b. Laws and living things. 
c. Attitude towards natural processes. 
d. Searching for truth. 
e. Recognition of social order and need of cooperation. 
10. Materials in nature study course for grammar grades, p. 79. 
a. Enjoyment in what kind of work? 
b. Kinds of experiments. 
c. Fundamental relations. 
d. Original designs. 
e. Group classifications. 
11. Opportunity for progressive work. p. 80. 
12. Adaptability to the child always first consideration in choice of 
material and method of presentation, p. 80. 
13. Importance of natural relations, p. 80. 
14. Illustration of organization of material, p. 80. 
15. Fitting the nature work to the needs of the child; “While the hope 
of fitting the nature work to the exact needs of the child at every 
step in his development will, perhaps, never be fully realized, yet, 
if the work is planned and carried out along lines of his growing 
intelligence and sympathies, it will fulfill its mission. It will leave 
the child better equipped to meet the exigencies of life, better 
disciplined, physically, mentally, and morally to do work in the 
world, and it will leave an abiding interest in nature which 
stimulates self-resourcefulness, and makes the world in every 
aspect always a most interesting and enjoyable place of resi¬ 
dence.” pp. 80, 81. 
