PART I. The Teaching of Nature-Study

THE TEACHING OF NATURE-STUDY

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What Nature-Study is 1

What Nature-Study Should do for the Child 1

Nature-Study as a Help to Health 2

What Nature-Study Should do for the Teacher 2

When and Why the Teacher Should say “I do not know!” 3

Nature-Study, The Elixir of Youth 4

Nature-Study as a Help in School Discipline 4

The Relation of Nature-Study to Science 5

Nature-Study not for Drill 6

The Child not Interested in Nature-Study 6

When to Give the Lesson 6

The Length of the Lesson 7

The Nature-Study Lesson Always New 7

Nature-Study and Object Lessons 7

Nature-Study in the Schoolroom 8

Nature-Study and Museum Specimens 8

The Lens, Microscope and Field-glass as Helps 9

Use of Pictures, Charts and Blackboard Drawings 10

The Use of Scientific Names 10

The Story as a Supplement to the Nature-Study Lesson 10

The Nature-Study Attitude toward Life and Death 11

Should the Nature-Study Teacher Teach How to Destroy Life? 13

The Field Note-book 13

The Field Excursion 15

Pets as Nature-Study Subjects 15

The Correlation of Nature-Study with Language Work 16

The Correlation of Nature-Study with Drawing 17

The Correlation of Nature-Study with Geography 18

The Correlation of Nature-Study with History 18

The Correlation of Nature-Study with Arithmetic 19

Gardening and Nature-Study 20

Nature-Study and Agriculture 21

Nature-Study Clubs 22

How to Use this Book 24