Teaching elementary school subjects . Fourth-grade garden activities. Elementary school, University of Chicago. Making a telegraph at the University of Chicago elementary school NATURE STUDY 351 definite projects suited to the individual pupils are well worthwhile. The project may be connected with the farm or gar-den. A maximum crop of com from an acre, a garden patchrun as a commercial venture with accurate accounting of allexpenses and receipts, a pen of chickens, a hive of bees, acorner of the orchard—these are suggestive of the kind ofproject that may be adopted by some or all of the pupi
Teaching elementary school subjects . Fourth-grade garden activities. Elementary school, University of Chicago. Making a telegraph at the University of Chicago elementary school NATURE STUDY 351 definite projects suited to the individual pupils are well worthwhile. The project may be connected with the farm or gar-den. A maximum crop of com from an acre, a garden patchrun as a commercial venture with accurate accounting of allexpenses and receipts, a pen of chickens, a hive of bees, acorner of the orchard—these are suggestive of the kind ofproject that may be adopted by some or all of the pupils, tobe worked to a successful conclusion through careful solutionof difficulties, by patient observation, and by thinking outthe various problems involved with the help of such informa-tion as books and pamphlets can give. In a Southern cityone grade became enthusiastic in its study of a pen of chickensstarted by a setting of eggs and an old hen kept under theteachers desk during the period of incubation. Their naturework centered around this pen for a couple of years. In aWestern town it was an old or
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