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"Nature study" Quotes from Famous Books

... being quoted adds: "The whole matter may be summed up, that we owe infinitely more to the simple nature study of our people in the great affair of health than we owe to ...

— Myths of Babylonia and Assyria • Donald A. Mackenzie

... The Aims of Nature Study; General Methods 13 Concrete Material 15 Topics and material must suit the season; matter suited to the child; use of the commonplace; order of development of lesson; problems in observation; note-books and ...

— Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study • Ontario Ministry of Education

... or thereabouts the Nature Study movement swept over the schools, and "nature specimens" then became the material for sense training: as far as possible each child had a specimen, and by the minute examination of these, stimulated their senses and stifled their appreciation of ...

— The Child Under Eight • E.R. Murray and Henrietta Brown Smith

... quite apart from the other lessons, just an undivided whole, because it had effects of its own which were best brought about by not being connected with other lessons. She frowned her disapproval and said: "I am sorry, because I thought I would take the Goat for my nature study lesson and then tell your story at the end." I thought of the terrible struggle in the child's mind between his conscientious wish to be accurate and his dramatic enjoyment of the abnormal habits of a goat who went out with scissors, needle and thread; but ...

— The Art of the Story-Teller • Marie L. Shedlock

Words linked to "Nature study" : research, inquiry, enquiry