The Look About You Nature Book, No. 2
The land is at rest
The
“LOOK ABOUT YOU”
Nature Study Books
BOOK II.
BY
THOMAS W. HOARE
TEACHER OF NATURE STUDY
to the Falkirk School Board and Stirlingshire County Council
Publisher’s Logo
LONDON: T. C. & E. C. JACK, Ltd.
35 PATERNOSTER ROW, E.C.
AND EDINBURGH
PREFACE.
This little book should be used as a simple guide tothe practical study of Nature rather than as a mere reader.
Every lesson herein set down has, during the author’smany years’ experience in teaching Nature Study, beentaught by observation and practice again and again;and each time with satisfactory result. The materialsrequired for the lessons are within everybody’s reach.
There is nothing that appeals to the heart of theordinary child like living things, be they animal orvegetable, and there is no branch of education at thepresent day that bears, in the young mind, such excellentfruit as the study of the simple, living things around us.
Your child is nothing if not curious. He wants tounderstand everything that lives in his bright little world.
Nature Study involves so many ingenious little deductions,that the reasoning powers are almost constantlyemployed, and intelligence grows proportionately. Thechild’s powers of observation are stimulated, and hismemory is cultivated in the way most pleasing to hisinquiring nature. By drawing his specimens, no matterhow roughly or rapidly, his eye is trained more thoroughlythan any amount of enforced copying of stiff, uninterestingmodels of prisms, cones, etc., ever could train it.
The love of flowers and animals is one of the mostcommendable traits in the disposition of the wonderingchild, and ought to be encouraged above all others. Afew lessons on Nature Phenomena are added.
It is the author’s fondest and most sanguine hopethat his little pupils may study further the great bookof Nature, whose broad pages are ever open to us, andwhose silent answers to our manifold questions arenever very difficult to read.
T. W. H.
CONTENTS
LESSON PAGE
I. How Plants take Food from the Soil (1) 5
II. How Plants take Food from the Soil (2) 13
III. The Weasel and the Otter 20
IV. Dwellers in the Corn Field 27
V. Harvest Time 33
VI. The Squirrel 40
VII. How the Fire Burns 48
VII                        
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