The Gary schools; a general account . is the Emerson course in zoology,covering forty weeks, made up of two months work oninsects, three or four months study of the most importantanimal groups, a month or six weeks of human physiology,the remaining weeks of the year being devoted to collect-ing and studying the zoological materials character-istic of the environment. The course was a happycombination of scientific order with practical study of insects, for example, involved the use ofboth textbook and laboratory; but the teacher had aneye for such topics as insects and plants, ins
The Gary schools; a general account . is the Emerson course in zoology,covering forty weeks, made up of two months work oninsects, three or four months study of the most importantanimal groups, a month or six weeks of human physiology,the remaining weeks of the year being devoted to collect-ing and studying the zoological materials character-istic of the environment. The course was a happycombination of scientific order with practical study of insects, for example, involved the use ofboth textbook and laboratory; but the teacher had aneye for such topics as insects and plants, insects and hu-man disease, beneficial insects, etc. Among the mostsuccessful and elaborate projects in operation may bementioned care of poultry—a subject conscientiouslypursued through all its phases from incubator to market—though one would hardly be warranted in placingcomplete confidence in the records kept by the Froebel work in this subject was distinctly inferior. In chemistry similar conditions prevail. The grade. SCIENCE TEACHING 115 work is topical in character. At the Emerson school,starch conversions, fermentation, carbon compounds areamong the subjects concretely presented to pupils in theupper elementary grades. In both high schools, a yearis systematically devoted to the subject. A well knowntextbook is in use, supplemented, especially at theEmerson school, by illustrations drawn from industrialprocesses. Thus, for example, the school coal was testedby the teacher and pupils in cooperation. So, again,the dyes used in commercial jeUies were investigated;pupils were also employed at the City Health Depart-ment, assisting in the bacteriological examination ofmilk. Classroom and garden work in all the sciences is sup-plemented by the use of science materials in the audito-rium, to which, as we shall shortly see, Gary has given aquite unprecedented development. Through a large partof the school day, successive groups of classes assemblethere to witness a
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