Samuel Christian Schmucker

The Study of Nature Samuel Christian Schmucker

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1908. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... XIX HELPFUL BOOKS ON NATURE STUDY 394. The teacher of nature study, like the teacher of any other subject, will deny himself much if he does not go to the literature of the subject for help in his work. But there is an especial danger in such Dagger of help on this subject. So soon as one takes to the BwkT book instead of to nature for questions that nature could easily answer, he loses the spirit of the work. One must be careful, therefore, to ask many questions of things themselves under the open sky, and to read with patience in nature's book. The best service any nature book can render is to send us out into the open better equipped to read nature's own story written in living letters on the broad face of field and meadow, of hill and valley, of stream and lake, of beach and ocean. 395. No attempt is made here at fullness. A few of the most easily accessible books, that seem to the This List is author best adapted to the needs of the class not Full. 0f teachers for whom this book is written, are briefly characterized. It is no criticism of a book that it is not here mentioned. 396. Perhaps the most important single book thus far brought out to supply the needs of the naturestudy teacher is Dr. Clifton F. Hodge's "Na ?? Nature ture Study and Life," published by Ginn study and an(j Company. It is a mine of information and has the advantage of being written by one who is both teacher and scientist. 397. Mrs. L. L. W. Wilson, in her "Nature Study in Elementary Schools," published by the Macmillan Company, has given a detailed series of les- Wilsonsons, month by month. This author has a "Nature positive genius for finding materials for work Elementary in city schools. Where a more detailed pro- Schools-' gram is wanted than preceding sections of the p...