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Excerpt from Stories of Rocks and Minerals: For the Grammar Grades
The great value of Nature Study in the primary grades is its training of the observational powers, and the cultivation of clear mental images. It should be made the beginning of geography.
In the grammar grades Nature study or elementary Science has an additional value because of the information which it conveys. It is an important feature of the new geography, which deals with a world of related rather than of isolated facts,
A scheme of education is fundamentally wrong which permits children to undertake the struggle for their existence entirely ignorant of the physical world with which they come in contact.
Although elementary science now has a standing in all well organized courses of study, there has been a tendency to make it one sided. It has been too often natural history alone, with little or no attention given to the physical conditions upon which life depends.
The study of nature in the grammar grades should not be differentiated as it is in the high school, but it should include an elementary treatment of all the natural sciences. The study of rocks and minerals, their origin, and the changes which they undergo in fitting the world to be a home for plants and animals, should equally with the elements of botany, zoology, meteorology, etc., be included in a symmetrical course.
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Excerpt from Stories of Rocks and Minerals: For the Grammar Grades
The great value of Nature Study in the primary grades is its training of the observational powers, and the cultivation of clear mental images. It should be made the beginning of geography.
In the grammar grades Nature study or elementary Science has an additional value because of the information which it conveys. It is an important feature of the new geography, which deals with a world of related rather than of isolated facts,
A scheme of education is fundamentally wrong which permits children to undertake the struggle for their existence entirely ignorant of the physical world with which they come in contact.
Although elementary science now has a standing in all well organized courses of study, there has been a tendency to make it one sided. It has been too often natural history alone, with little or no attention given to the physical conditions upon which life depends.
The study of nature in the grammar grades should not be differentiated as it is in the high school, but it should include an elementary treatment of all the natural sciences. The study of rocks and minerals, their origin, and the changes which they undergo in fitting the world to be a home for plants and animals, should equally with the elements of botany, zoology, meteorology, etc., be included in a symmetrical course.
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