| Page |
| Prefatory Note | 1 |
| Course of Study—Details | 3 |
| Chapter I |
| The Aims of Nature Study; General Methods | 13 |
| Concrete Material | 15 |
| Topics and material must suit the season; matter suited to the child; use of the commonplace; order of development of lesson; problems in observation; note-books and records | 15 |
| The School Garden | 19 |
| Suggestions; Garden Expenses | 20 |
| The Excursion | 23 |
| Its value; difficulties; frequency; suggestions for ungraded schools; the teacher's excursions; a type excursion | 23 |
| Collections | 29 |
| Animal Studies | 29 |
| Domestic animals; references | 29 |
| Birds; references | 30 |
| Insects; insect collections | 34 |
| Butterfly and moth collections | 37 |
| Plant Collections | 39 |
| Chapter II |
| Physical Science Phase of Nature Study | 42 |
| Instructions and General Method | 42 |
| Value of such lessons; conditions under which experiments should be performed | 42 |
| Correlations of physical science phase | 44 |
| List of Reference Books and Bulletins on garden and plant study, physical science, and animal study | 45 |
| Physical Science—Equipment for Forms III and IV | 47 |
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| Desirable apparatus | 47 |
| Chemicals | 48 |
| Apparatus | 50 |
| Grenet cells; decomposition apparatus; pneumatic trough; spirit-lamp; barometer; hygrometer; hints | 50 |
| Time Apportioned to Nature Study | 53 |
| Chapter III. Form I: Autumn |
| Garden Work | 54 |
| Lessons on a Garden Plant—Pansy | 55 |
| Observation Exercises on the Dandelion | 57 |
| Correlation with literature and reading | 59 |
| Dwarf Nasturtium | 59 |
| Seeds | 60 |
| Field exercise; class-room lesson based on the collection | 60 |
| Seed Dispersal | 61 |
| Lesson on seeds that fly; correlations | 62 |
| Twigs and Buds | 62 |
| Lesson on Twigs | 62 |
| Further study of twigs; review lesson | 63 |
| Lesson on Buds | 65 |
| Review lesson; correlations | 65179 |
| Selection of cuttings; potting of rooted cuttings | 179 |
| Evergreens—class-room lesson | 181 |
| Collection of Wood Specimens | 182 |
| Related Reading | 183 |
| How Animals Prepare for Winter | 183 |
| Summary of Lessons; correlations | 184 |
| Chickens | 185 |
| Conversation lesson; arithmetic lesson; care and food of chickens | 185 |
| Physical Science Phase of Nature Study | 188 |
| Solids, Liquids, and Gases | 188 |
| Change of State | 189 |
| Expansion of Solids | 189 |
| Practical applications; questions for further investigation | 190 |
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| Expansion of Liquids—applications | 192 |
| The Thermometer | 193 |
| Expansion of Air | 194 |
| Sources of Heat and Light | 194 |
| Notes for a Series of Lessons | 194 |
| Conduction—problems | 196 |
| Convection—problems, convection in gases; applications | 198 |
| Radiation of Heat—problems | 199 |
| Chapter XI. Form III: Spring |
| Window Boxes | 201 |
| Window Gardens | 201 |
| Suitable Plants; Fertilizer | 202 |
| Soil Studies—constituents | 203 |
| Garden Work | 206 |
| Tree Seeds | 207 |
| Transplanting—flowers, vegetables, tree seedlings | 208 |
| Budding | 209 |
| Cuttings—leaf cuttings, root cuttings, layering | 211 |
| Planting and Care of Herbaceous Perennials | 212 |
| Garden Studies—biennials | 212 |
| Wild Flowers | 213 |
| Study of the Trillium | 213 |
| Class-room lesson on the specimens | 213 |
| Adaptations of Animals | 215 |
| Bird Types | 217 |
| Woodpeckers—the downy woodpecker; observations | 217 |
| Flycatchers | 219 |
| Wrens | 219 |
| Insect Types | 220 |
| Cabbage-butterfly | 220 |
| Tussock-moth | 221 |
| Potato beetle |
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