. Handbook of nature-study for teachers and parents, based on the Cornell nature-study leaflets. Nature study. The Teaching of Nature-Study 19 of the locusts' invasion mentioned in the Bible, and the stars which witnessed our creation and of which Job sang and the ancients wrote, shine over our heads every night. But the trees, through the lengthy span of their lives, cover more history individually, than do other organisms. In glancing across the wood-covered hills of New York one often sees there, far above the other trees, the gaunt crowns of old white pines. Such trees belonged to the fore
. Handbook of nature-study for teachers and parents, based on the Cornell nature-study leaflets. Nature study. The Teaching of Nature-Study 19 of the locusts' invasion mentioned in the Bible, and the stars which witnessed our creation and of which Job sang and the ancients wrote, shine over our heads every night. But the trees, through the lengthy span of their lives, cover more history individually, than do other organisms. In glancing across the wood-covered hills of New York one often sees there, far above the other trees, the gaunt crowns of old white pines. Such trees belonged to the forest primeval and may have attained the age of two centuries; the}' stand there looking out over the world, relics of another age when America be- longed to the red man, and the bear and the panther played or fought beneath them. The cedars live longer than do the pines and the great scarlet oak may have attained the age of four centuries before it yields to fate. Perhaps in no other way may the attention of the pupil be turned so naturally to past events, as through the thought that the life of such a tree has spanned so much of human history. The life history of one of these ancient trees should be made the center of local history; let the pupils find when the town was first settled by the whites and where they came from and how large the tree was then. What Indian tribes roamed the woods before that and what animals were in the forest when this tree was a sapling? Thus may be brought out the chief events in the history of the county and township, when they were established and for whom or what they were named; and a comparison of the present industries may be made with those of a hundred years ago. THE CORRELATION OF NATURE-STUDY WITH ARITHMETIC HE arithmetical problems presented by nature-study are many; some of them are simple and some of them are complicated, and all of them are illumin- ing. Seed distribution especially lends itself to computation; a milkweed pod c
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