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PART I THE TEACHING OF NATURE-STUDY
What Nature-Study Is
1
1
What Nature-Study Should Do for the Child
1
1
Nature-Study as a Help to Health
2
1
What Nature-Study Should Do for the Teacher
3
1
When and Why the Teacher Should Say ``I Do Not Know!''
3
1
Nature-Study, the Elixir of Youth
4
1
Nature-Study as a Help in School Discipline
4
1
Relation of Nature-Study to Science
5
1
Nature-Study Not for Drill
6
1
The Child Not Interested in Nature-Study
6
1
When to Give the Lesson
6
1
Length of the Lesson
6
1
The Nature-Study Lesson Always New
7
1
Nature-Study and Object Lessons
7
1
Nature-Study in the Schoolroom
8
1
Nature-Study and Museum Specimens
8
1
Lens, Microscope and Field Glass as Helps
9
1
Uses of Pictures, Charts, and Blackboard Drawings
10
1
Uses of Scientific Names
10
1
The Story as a Supplement to the Nature-Study Lesson
11
1
The Nature-Study Attitude toward Life and Death
12
1
Should the Nature-Study Teacher Teacher How to Destroy Life?
13
1
The Field Notebook
13
2
The Field Excursion
15
1
Pets as Nature-Study Subjects
15
1
Correlation of Nature-Study with Language Work
16
1
Correlation of Nature-Study and Drawing
17
1
Correlation of Nature-Study with Geography
18
1
Correlation of Nature-Study with History
18
1
Correlation of Nature-Study with Arithmetic
19
1
Gardening and Nature-Study
20
1
Nature-Study and Agriculture
21
1
Nature-Study Clubs
22
1
How to Use This Book
23
4
PART II ANIMALS
Birds
27
117
Beginning Bird Study in the Primary Grades
28
1
Feathers as Clothing
29
2
Feathers as Ornament
31
1
How Birds Fly
31
4
Migration of Birds
35
3
Eyes and Ears of Birds
38
1
Form and Use of Beaks
39
1
Feet of Birds
40
2
Songs of Birds
42
1
Attracting Birds
43
2
Value of Birds
45
1
Study of Birds' Nests in Winter
46
1
Chicken Ways
47
3
Pigeons
50
3
Canary and the Goldfinch
53
4
Robin
57
5
Bluebird
62
3
White-breasted Nuthatch
65
3
Chickadee
68
2
Downy Woodpecker
70
4
Sapsucker
74
2
Redheaded Woodpecker
76
1
Flicker or Yellow-hammer
77
3
Meadowlark
80
3
English Sparrow
83
3
Chipping Sparrow
86
3
Song Sparrow
89
2
Mockingbird
91
4
Catbird
95
2
Belted Kingfisher
97
3
Screech Owl
100
4
Hawks
104
2
Birds of Prey and Scavengers
106
3
Swallows and the Chimney Swift
109
6
Hummingbird
115
2
Red-winged Blackbird
117
3
Baltimore Oriole
120
4
Crow
124
3
Cardinal Grosbeak
127
3
Geese
130
3
Wild Geese
133
3
Game Birds
136
2
Turkey
138
4
Birds of Marsh and Shore
142
2
Fishes
144
26
Goldfish
144
4
Bullhead
148
4
Common Sucker
152
2
Shiner
154
2
Brook Trout
156
3
Stickleback
159
3
Sunfish
162
4
Johnny Darter
166
4
Amphibians
170
23
Tailless Amphibians
170
17
Common Toad
170
5
Tadpole Aquarium
175
2
Spring Peeper or Pickering's Hyla
177
3
Frog
180
7
Tailed Amphibians
187
6
Newt or Eft
187
6
Reptiles
193
21
Garter or Garden Snake
194
3
Milk Snake or Spotted Adder
197
1
Water Snake
198
2
Other Snakes
200
4
Turtles
204
6
Lizards
210
4
Mammals
214
80
Cotton-tail Rabbit
215
4
Muskrat
219
5
House Mouse
224
5
Woodchuck
229
4
Red Squirrel or Chickaree
233
4
Furry
237
2
Chipmunk
239
2
Little Brown Bat
241
4
Skunk
245
2
Raccoon
247
3
Wolf
250
1
Fox
251
3
Dogs
254
6
Cat
260
6
Goat
266
4
Sheep
270
4
Horse
274
6
Cattle
280
6
Pig
286
4
Animals of Zoos and Parks
290
4
Insects
294
7
Life History and Structure of Insects
294
7
Insects of the Fields and Woods
301
99
Black Swallowtail Butterfly
301
4
Monarch Butterfly
305
5
Isabella Tiger Moth or Woolly Bear
310
3
Cecropia
313
4
Promethea
317
2
Cynthia
319
1
Hummingbird or Sphinx Moths
320
5
Codling Moth
325
4
Leaf-miners
329
3
Leaf-rollers
332
3
Gall Dwellers
335
3
Grasshopper
338
5
Katydid
343
1
Black Cricket
344
4
Snowy Tree Cricket
348
2
Cockroach
350
1
Aphids or Plant Lice
351
3
Ant Lion
354
2
Mother Lacewing and the Aphis Lion
356
2
Housefly
358
4
Colorado Potato Beetle
362
2
Ladybird
364
3
Firefly
367
2
Ways of the Ant
369
4
How to Make a Lubbock Antnest
373
1
The Ant-nest and What May Be Seen within It
374
4
Mud-dauber
378
2
Yellow Jacket
380
4
Leaf-cutter Bee
384
2
Little Carpenter Bee
386
3
Bumblebee
389
2
Honeybee
391
4
Honeycomb
395
1
Industries of the Hive and the Observation Hive
396
4
Insects of the Brook and Pond
400
16
How to Make an Aquarium for Insects
400
1
Dragonflies and Damsel Flies
401
1
Other Aquatic Insects
402
6
Caddis Worms and the Caddis Flies
408
3
Mosquito
411
5
Invertebrate Animals other than Insects
416
37
Garden Snail
416
2
Shells of Florida and the East Coast
418
4
Earthworm
422
3
Crayfish
425
5
Seashore Creatures
430
2
Daddy Longlegs or Grandfather Greybeard
432
3
Spiders
435
1
Cobwebs
436
2
Funnel Web of a Grass Spider
438
1
Orb Web
439
4
Filmy Dome
443
1
Ballooning Spiders
444
1
White Crab Spider
445
1
How the Spider Mothers Take Care of Their Eggs
446
2
Other Invertebrates
448
5
PART III PLANTS
How to Begin the Study of Plants and Their Flowers
453
1
Some Needs of Plants
454
2
How to Teach the Names of the Parts of a Flower and of the Plant
456
1
Teach the Use of the Flower
457
1
Flower and Insect Partners
457
1
Relation of Plants to Geography
458
1
Seed Germination
458
2
Wild Flowers
460
52
Hepatica
461
2
Yellow Adder's-Tongue
463
3
Bloodroot
466
2
Trillium
468
3
Dutchman's-Breeches and Squirrel Corn
471
2
Jack-in-the-Pulpit
473
3
Violet
476
3
May Apple or Mandrake
479
4
Bluets
483
1
Yellow Lady's-Slipper
484
4
Evening Primrose
488
3
Milkweed
491
4
White Water Lily
495
3
Pondweed
498
2
Cattail
500
3
Type Lesson for a Composite Flower
503
1
Goldenrod
503
3
Asters
506
2
The Jewelweed or Touch-me-not
508
4
Weeds
512
34
Outline for the Study of a Weed
513
1
Poison Ivy
514
1
Prevention of Ivy Poisoning
514
1
Curative Treatment for Ivy Poisoning
514
2
Common or Field Buttercup
516
2
Hedge Bindweed
518
17
Dodder
520
2
White Daisy
522
1
Yellow Daisy or Black-eyed Susan
523
1
Thistle
524
3
Burdock
527
2
Prickly Lettuce, a Compass Plant
529
2
Dandelion
531
4
Pearly Everlasting
535
2
Mullein
537
2
Teasel
539
3
Queen Anne's Lace or Wild Carrot
542
4
Garden Flowers
546
45
Crocus
547
2
Daffodils and Their Relatives
549
3
Tulip
552
3
Pansy
555
3
Bleeding Heart
558
2
Poppies
560
3
California Poppy
563
3
Nasturtium
566
2
Bee-Larkspur
568
3
Blue Flag or Iris
571
3
Sunflower
574
4
Bachelor's-Button
578
1
Salvia or Scarlet Sage
579
2
Petunias
581
4
Garden or Horseshoe Geranium
585
3
Sweet Pea
588
3
Cultivated Crop Plants
591
27
Clovers
591
3
Sweet Clover
594
2
White Clover
596
2
Maize or Indian Corn
598
6
Cotton Plant
604
4
Strawberry
608
3
Pumpkin
611
7
Trees
618
75
Parts of the Tree
618
2
The Way a Tree Grows
620
2
How to Begin Tree Study
622
4
How to Make Leaf Prints
626
2
Maples
628
6
American Elm
634
4
Oaks
638
5
Shagbark Hickory
643
2
Chestnut
645
3
Horse Chestnut
648
3
Willows
651
4
Cottonwood or Carolina Poplar
655
3
White Ash
658
3
Apple Tree
661
4
How an Apple Grows
665
2
The Apple
667
3
Pines
670
5
Norway Spruce
675
4
Hemlock
679
1
Dogwood
680
3
Velvet or Staghorn Sumac
683
3
Witch Hazel
686
3
Mountain Laurel
689
4
Flowerless Plants
693
43
Christmas Fern
693
3
Bracken
696
2
How a Fern Bud Unfolds
698
1
Fruiting of the Fern
699
5
Other Ferns
704
2
Field Horsetail
706
3
Hair-cap Moss or Pigeon Wheat
709
3
Other Mosses and Hepatics
712
2
Mushrooms and Other Fungi
714
2
How Mushrooms Look and How They Live
716
4
Puffballs
720
1
Bracket Fungi
721
4
Hedgehog Fungi
725
1
Scarlet Saucer
725
1
Morels
726
1
Stinkhorns
727
1
Molds
727
2
Bacteria
729
7
PART IV EARTH AND SKY
The Brook
736
14
Life in the Brook
739
1
How a Brook Drops Its Load
740
3
Rocks and Minerals
743
3
Rocks
744
1
Sedimentary Rocks
745
1
Igneous Rocks
746
2
Metamorphic Rocks
748
2
Calcite, Limestone, and Marble
748
2
Minerals
750
10
Crystal Growth
751
2
Salt
753
1
Quartz
754
1
Feldspar
755
1
Fossils
756
2
Mica
758
2
The Soil
760
16
Soil Material
761
1
Soil Formation
762
1
Kinds of Soil
763
1
Soil Experiments
764
2
How Valuable Soil Is Lost
766
3
Soil Erosion, an Old Problem
769
1
How to Conserve Our Soil
770
6
The Magnet
776
4
Climate and Weather
780
28
Tower of the Winds
781
1
Historical
781
2
Atmosphere
783
1
Air as a Gas
783
1
Composition of Air
783
2
Pressure of Atmosphere
785
2
The Barometer
787
1
Height of the Atmosphere
788
2
Temperature of the Atmosphere
790
1
Thermometer Scales in Use
790
1
Distribution of Temperature and Pressure
791
1
Winds of the World
791
7
Storms
798
1
Weather Maps
799
1
The Principles of Weather Forecasting
799
1
Forecasts Based on Weather Maps
800
1
Maps, Where Published and How Obtained
800
1
Value of Weather Service
801
1
How to Read Weather Maps
801
5
Highs and Lows
806
1
Observations Concerning the Weather
806
1
Weather Proverbs
807
1
Water Forms
808
7
The Skies
815
46
The Story of the Stars
815
3
How to Begin Star Study
818
1
Circumpolar Constellations
818
1
The Polestar and the Dippers
818
3
Cassiopeia's Chair, Cepheus, and the Dragon
821
2
Winter Stars
823
1
Orion
823
3
Aldebaran and the Pleiades
826
1
The Two Dog Stars, Sirius and Procyon
827
1
Capella and the Heavenly Twins
828
1
Stars of Summer
829
1
Regulus
830
1
Arcturus
831
1
The Crown
831
1
Spica
832
1
Vega
832
1
Antares
832
1
Deneb or Arided
832
1
Altair
833
1
The Sun
833
5
Comets and Meteors
838
1
Shooting Stars
839
2
The Relation between the Tropic of Cancer and the Planting of the Garden
841
2
The Ecliptic and the Zodiac
843
1
The Sky Clock
844
3
Equatorial Star Finder
847
4
The Relations of the Sun to the Earth
851
2
How to Make a Sundial
853
2
The Moon
855
6
Index
861