Author: Harold Wellman FairbanksPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780332966014
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Excerpt from Stories of Our Mother Earth, Vol. 2 Nature study is deservedly attracting more and more atten tion in the schools, but the most of the aids for teachers and pupils have been limited to a presentation of organic nature, while the wide and fully as important field of inorganic nature has been very 'much neglected. With the hope of supplying, to some extent, the existing lack, this little book is presented for the use of grammar-grade pupils. It has been the Opinion of some educators that children are not as quickly or as easily interested in rocks, minerals, and the processes which are changing the surface of the' earth, as in plants and animals. I believe, however, that where the experiment has been well tried, all phases of natai e with which the child comes in contact, have been found to be equally interesting and instructive. It is undoubtedly true that the study of specimens by them selves is largely devoid Of interest. Children want to know the relation existing between things in the world about them. I am thoroughly convinced also that they are capable of under standing many of the processes involved in the shaping of the earth, but because of the idea that the subject is too difficult, or from lack of proper familiarity with nature on the part of the teacher, these inorganic nature studies are more often neglected. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.