The Nature-study Review: Devoted to All Phases of Nature-study in Elementary Schools, Volume 5M.A. Bigelow, 1909 - Natural history |
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Page 118 - ... shadow. He was a little salmon, a very little salmon; but the water was good, and there were flies and worms and little living creatures in abundance for him to eat, and he soon became a larger salmon. Then there were many more little salmon with him, some larger and some smaller, and they all had a merry time. Those who had been born soonest and had grown largest used to chase the others around and bite off their tails, or, still better, take them by the heads and swallow them whole; for, said...
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Page 44 - Nature study is learning those things in nature that are best worth knowing to the end of doing those things that make life most worth the living.
Page 31 - Within the court made by the surrounding buildings are to be a garden and plant beds for experimental purposes. In brief, it is to be an epitome of the essential features of zoological park, biological laboratories and experimental horticultural grounds. If the experiment proves a success upon two years...
Page 210 - California Polytechnic School" as used in this code or in any other law means the California State Polytechnic College. The purpose of the college is to furnish to young people of both sexes mental and manual training in the arts and sciences, including agriculture, mechanics, engineering, business methods, domestic economy, and such other branches as will fit the students for the nonprofessional walks of life.
Page 105 - ... absolutely distinct from any other industrial situation, and if it is ever met efficiently it will have to be met in a very distinct way. It will never be met by making agricultural schools of the country primary schools. The children in the elementary schools are too young to want much agriculture ; they want English, and mathematics, and the elementary sciences there. The primary children in the cities stand more in need of agriculture, than the primary children in the country. The primary...
Page 31 - INSTITUTION. (Through the aid of a philanthropist whose name is withheld by request.) Arcadia is to be a "village" of portable buildings devoted to various phases of natural science. The buildings are to be arranged in the form of a court covering more than a half -acre of ground. There...
Page 157 - ... and that each must offer his support; to understand that the policy which is best for the majority must be supported; to see the justice in ten of a class insisting that the eleventh...
Page 94 - The true method of instruction is to lead the pupil from the known to the unknown; from the concrete to the abstract, and by steps which the pupil must take himself.
Page 246 - It has five people giving all of their time and five others giving a part of their time to the promotion of agricultural education. For 17 years the director of the office has been a member of the committee on instruction in agriculture of the Association of American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations, and for all five sessions of the Graduate School of Agriculture he has been dean of the school. The agricultural education service of the office represents the department in its relations...