. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. BULLETIN No. 281 $ sZty'^u Contribution front the States Relations Service A. C. TRUE, Director. s\Jy*^mru Washington, D. C. August 12, 1915 CORRELATING AGRICULTURE WITH THE PUBLIC SCHOOL SUBJECTS IN THE NORTHERN STATES. By C. H. Lane, Chief Specialist in Agricultural Education, and F. E. Heald, Assistant in Agricultural Education. CONTENTS. Page. Introduction 1 The plan 2 How the teacher may organize a club 2 Prizes 4 How to keep up the club interest 5 School-exhibit day 5 September - 6 October 9 November 12 December
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. BULLETIN No. 281 $ sZty'^u Contribution front the States Relations Service A. C. TRUE, Director. s\Jy*^mru Washington, D. C. August 12, 1915 CORRELATING AGRICULTURE WITH THE PUBLIC SCHOOL SUBJECTS IN THE NORTHERN STATES. By C. H. Lane, Chief Specialist in Agricultural Education, and F. E. Heald, Assistant in Agricultural Education. CONTENTS. Page. Introduction 1 The plan 2 How the teacher may organize a club 2 Prizes 4 How to keep up the club interest 5 School-exhibit day 5 September - 6 October 9 November 12 December 14 January 16 February IS March 20 April 22 May and June 24 Correlation supplements 25 INTRODUCTION. Home projects 1 as a part of the regular instruction in elementary agriculture promise to afford the teacher a most potent means of making the subject sufficiently concrete and practical. Too often the teaching begins and ends with the assignment and recitation of lessons from the pages of a textbook. By projecting the work of the school into the home in the vital way in which home projects do, it enlists the interest of parents and becomes the means of their edu- cation in this subject, thus affecting quickly the work on the farms of the community. The purpose of this bulletin is to suggest some ways and means by which the public-school teacher may utilize home projects in correlating agriculture and farm problems with the regular school work. 1 The term "home project," applied to instruction in elementary and secondary agriculture, includes each of the following requisites: (1) There must be a plan for work at home covering a season more or less extended, (2) it must be a part of the instruction in agriculture of the school, (3) there must be a problem more or less new to the pupil, (4) the parents and pupil should agree with the teacher upon the plan, (5) some competent person must supervise the home work, (6) detailed records of time, method, cost, and in- come mus
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