. Map modeling in geography : including the use of sand, clay putty, paper pulp, plaster of Paris, and other materials : also chalk modeling in its adaptation to purposes of illustration. d giving primary notions whichmay be expanded through the exercise of the natural modifyingimagination. Results obtained from field lessons will depend in a greatmeasure upon the degree of school spirit kept among the childrenduring the work. Children are apt to be led aside from the les-son, and the teacher must have very definite purpose in order Nature Study. 53 to give effective instruction in the field.
. Map modeling in geography : including the use of sand, clay putty, paper pulp, plaster of Paris, and other materials : also chalk modeling in its adaptation to purposes of illustration. d giving primary notions whichmay be expanded through the exercise of the natural modifyingimagination. Results obtained from field lessons will depend in a greatmeasure upon the degree of school spirit kept among the childrenduring the work. Children are apt to be led aside from the les-son, and the teacher must have very definite purpose in order Nature Study. 53 to give effective instruction in the field. The study of a brookand its basin was the object in view in the lesson here reported,but rain interfered with the comfortable completion of the , this may have fixed certain ideas concerning rainfall. Ob-servations were made during one hour. The children were told: 1. To keep sharp and open eyes, 2. To note in their blank-books things seen, 3. To draw pictures of subjects observed, 4. To trace the brook in its course, 5. To make a written report next day. From the mass of reports handed in at beginning of class-work next day the following observations have been selected:. There are three slopes forming the basin of the source of this brook is a large source of the brook, Fig. 25. 54 Nature Study. The spring is walled about, and supplies a watering-troughwith pure, cold water. Mr. Grine owns the spring. The brook crosses the road, and runs through the fields intothe woods. It is joined by a smaller stream that rises in a swamp, and byanother which rises in a small pond.
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