Nature Study in Elementary Schools: A Manual for Teachers |
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Alice Cary Andersen animals Apple aquarium bark beautiful birds branches breathe buds Butterfly calyx carbon dioxide caterpillars Celia Thaxter CERCUS Chestnut Child's World cold color corolla covered Dandelion Difficult Poems earth Easy Poems eggs Eleanor Smith's Songs Emilie Poulsson's evaporation excursions F. D. Sherman Facts feldspar fern fish flowers Frost fruit Germination give gneiss Goldenrod green ground hektograph drawings Helen Hunt Jackson honey insects larvæ leaf leaves lessons Let the children light Little Folks locust Lovejoy's Nature Lucy Larcom Maple Method mica moon Myths Nature in Verse nest Nora Perry numerous observation ovary Phoebe Cary Pine pistil plants pollen poplar protected quartz rain Robin rock roots seeds Sensitive Fern snails Snow soil Songs for Little Sparrow spring stamens stars Stories Sunflower Susan Coolidge teach teacher thistle tion tree tumbler Weather Record Whittier Whittier's Child Willow wings winter wood yellow young
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Page 188 - The plough is one of the most ancient and most valuable of man's inventions; but, long before he existed, the land was, in fact, regularly ploughed by earth worms. It may be doubted whether there are many other animals which have played so important
Page 215 - The monarch Oak, the patriarch of trees, Shoots rising up, and spreads by slow degrees: Three centuries he grows, and three he stays Supreme in state, and in three more decays.
Page 190 - one on his back and the hue of the other on his breast, and ordained that his appearance in the spring should denote that the strife and war between these two elements was at an end. He is the
Page 32 - The sunflower turns on her god when he sets The same look which she turned when he rose.
Page 207 - from one lake or river to another, which is called the portage. A canoe, calculated for four persons with their baggage, weighs from forty to fifty pounds. Some of them are made to carry fifteen passengers.
Page 140 - through the ground and immediately afterwards. We may suppose a man to be thrown down on his hands and knees, and at the same time to one side, by a load of hay falling on him. He would first endeavor to get his arched back upright, wriggling at the same time in all directions to free himself a little from the surrounding pressure.
Page viii - boundless possibilities, a freshness of spirit that is in itself the most potent factor in education, a devotion that inspires new contributions to the unlimited science of teaching. This book is such a contribution, and I am sure it will be a great help to many teachers who are struggling with the problem of Nature Study.