Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-02-09

Wild fowl, ducks. geese, ETC., insect
pestroyers." common birds and the
work they do for for s nsl e Gn, na"I9ry
Rocks. Grinnell. our Western
ards, bulletin "a. Some Common
pirds,v bulletin, II, Fowls. Care and
Feeding" bulletin 5i. STANDARD Vnri-
.ties az Chickens;" bulletin z. Wood
necters;" and -Four Common Birds"
w OUR FOES AND FRIENDS
Grade 4---"rhe Insect Terrible" To-
Gusts. grasshoppers, crickets and army
worms. and their scourges; our BIRD
Allies" gulla, owls nighthawks. etc.
and what they do for us. Books;
Weed, Mature biographies" Com
stock. ways Of the Six Footed bull
letin. 50. Common Birds" bulletin 3,
ana year books FOR 1905. 1896 and
1000 topics on meadow mice. food OF
nesting birds and hawks and owls
v GREAT LESSONS FROM LITTLE
FOLK.
Grade s--~"The Insect Wonderful
ants. bees, wasps, their ways, intelli-
rences, instincts, etc, the honey bee
and its care. Books: Lubbock, ANTS.
Bees and Wasps;" Peckham, "Wpsps,
Social and Solitary" bulletin 80, bee
Keeping" Comstock, Insect Lie
VI. ROMANCE OF INSECT LIFE.
Grade s--"The Insect Beautiful"
meta morphosls of the lepidodptera.
The moths and the butterflies. Books:
Bndenoch, Romance of the Insect
World !" Dickorson, Moths and But
terfies:, Weed, Life Histories of
American Insects" Comstock, How
10 Know the Butterflies"
VII. ABOUT FROGS AND FISHES.
Grade Aquatic Life" manage
ment of an aquarium with special OBJ
yervation of the toad as an insect
destroyer also fishes and other forms
OF marine life. Books Bulletin 1876,
Usefulness of the American Toad"
Rateman "The Book of Aquarla;
Bamford. up and Down the Brooks;
Jordan & kellogg, Animal Life"
Holmes, 1.-THE Frog"
VIII THE MARVELLOUS TEMPLE.
Grade s--"The Human Body" com
parsion of the human and animal
skeletons; the human hand; the mus
cles; hygiene of exercise, eating. bath
ing and breathing. Books: Any school
text on physiology; Martin, The HUI
man Body" Cotton. practical Physi-
oiogy," None of the books named
are to be read by pupils in the grade
The books are guides for the teacher
only, or are for home and private
reading.
THE POINT OF VIEW.
1t may not be necessary to state
that there are no such geological
classifcations as those indicated i'm the
foregoing sections. In the case of in
sects, there Is no division by scient-
lists into insect terrible" insect Won
derful," etc; neither do psychologists
consider the human mind and body
as 1.-The man wonderful in the house
beautiful" The classifications adopt
ed here are those which the learner
would be perhaps most likely to make
upon learning the class of facts in
dicated in each case. That is, the
point of view from which we make
these classitications, If they may be so
termed, Is that of the child and the
beginner, and not that OF the scien-
fist These are the aspects OF the
various groups which Will be of most
interest 10 the learner, 1t Is his men
tai attitude that we are considering
and not the field of birds. insects, or
auadrupeds as divisions of zoology
Primarily we are working with the
pupu rather than with the animal
The more obvious and familiar the
grouping we can adopt, the more easy
natural, and assimilable the knowledge
will be to the child or the beginner;
always provided that the grouping is
also striking, impressive, and capable
of being related TO the interests OF the
learner And the whole aim of the
method. the sequence, and the grad
alton preferred herein Is simplicity
and human interest.
For reading on the topics as n
whole, see Harris-Natural Science,
Education, January. $780, Jordan
Nature Study and Moral Culture Proc
N. u. A.. 1896; Nature Study Review,
n. Y; Huxley-Science and Educa-
ton; Thomas-Study of Animal Life.