. Handbook of nature-study for teachers and parents, based on the Cornell nature-study leaflets. Nature study. 820 Handbook of Nature-Study. What the children find living in the brook. Method—The best time to study a brook is after a rain, and October or May is an interesting time for beginning this lesson. The work should be continued during the entire year. It may be done at noon or recess, if the brook is near at hand; or there may be excursions after school, if the brook is at some distance. The observations should be made by the class as a whole. Observations—i. Does the brook have its so
. Handbook of nature-study for teachers and parents, based on the Cornell nature-study leaflets. Nature study. 820 Handbook of Nature-Study. What the children find living in the brook. Method—The best time to study a brook is after a rain, and October or May is an interesting time for beginning this lesson. The work should be continued during the entire year. It may be done at noon or recess, if the brook is near at hand; or there may be excursions after school, if the brook is at some distance. The observations should be made by the class as a whole. Observations—i. Does the brook have its source in a spring or a swamp, or does it receive its water as drainage from surrounding hills? Follow it back to its very beginning. Do you find this in open fields or woods? Is the land about it level or hilly? 2. Are its banks deeper at the beginning, or is the brook at first almost on a level with the fields? Do the banks become deeper farther from the source ? Are the banks higher where the brook flows down hill, or where it is on a level ? 3. Is the course of the brook more crooked on a hillside or when flowing through a level area ? Are the banks more worn away and steep where the brook flows through woods or bushes than through the open fields ? 4. Can you find the places where the water is cutting the banks most, when the brook is flooded? Why does it cut the banks at these particiilar points ? 5. Into what stream, pond or lake does the brook flow? If you should launch a toy boat upon the waters of this brook, and it should keep afloat, through what streams would it pass to reach the ocean? Through what townships, counties, states or countries would it pass? 6. When is the brook working and when is it playing? What is the difference between the color of the water ordinarily and when the brook is flooded? What causes this difference?. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability
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