Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Modern Nature Study, Vol. 1: A First Book for Use in Canadian Schools
It has been impossible for us within the limits of this manual to indicate in detail the various ways in which Nature Study may be of assistance in the teaching of other subjects, composition, geography, etc. On its social side it is related to every subject of the school course, and the points of contact will readily suggest themselves to the teacher.
Part I. Of the manual has been devoted to the outline ofa field of Nature Study and to the presentation of the main facts regarding the different forms of animal and plant life.
If it were at all possible, it would of course be better that each individual teacher and student should observe and ascertain these facts for himself. The manifest absurdity of such a course, however, becomes apparent when we con sider the width of the field to be covered. Years of unaided observation, even to a mind of a scientific turn, could serve to make the student acquainted only with the barest outlines, and the beginner must, in the majority of cases, eventually become discouraged. The aim of the authors of this man ual in supplying the information given in Part I. Is not to prevent observation on the part of the teacher, but to stimu late observation, and to render it intelligent and fruitful. In no case have we attempted to give more than a mere outline of any animal or plant. The main facts given, it remains for the teacher himself to make a detailed study as indicated in the outline lessons in Part II.
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