Teaching Children Science - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Teaching Children Science write by Sally Gregory Kohlstedt. This book was released on 2010-05-15. Teaching Children Science available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the early twentieth century, a curriculum known as nature study flourished in major city school systems, streetcar suburbs, small towns, and even rural one-room schools. This object-based approach to learning about the natural world marked the first systematic attempt to introduce science into elementary education, and it came at a time when institutions such as zoos, botanical gardens, natural history museums, and national parks were promoting the idea that direct knowledge of nature would benefit an increasingly urban and industrial nation. The definitive history of this once pervasive nature study movement, TeachingChildren Science emphasizes the scientific, pedagogical, and social incentives that encouraged primarily women teachers to explore nature in and beyond their classrooms. Sally Gregory Kohlstedt brings to vivid life the instructors and reformers who advanced nature study through on-campus schools, summer programs, textbooks, and public speaking. Within a generation, this highly successful hands-on approach migrated beyond public schools into summer camps, afterschool activities, and the scouting movement. Although the rich diversity of nature study classes eventually lost ground to increasingly standardized curricula, Kohlstedt locates its legacy in the living plants and animals in classrooms and environmental field trips that remain central parts of science education today.
The Nature-study Idea
The Nature-study Idea - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Nature-study Idea write by Liberty Hyde Bailey. This book was released on 1903. The Nature-study Idea available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Educational Reform and Environmental Concern
Educational Reform and Environmental Concern - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Educational Reform and Environmental Concern write by Dorothy Kass. This book was released on 2017-08-09. Educational Reform and Environmental Concern available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A crucial component of the New Education reform movement, nature study was introduced to elementary schools throughout the English-speaking world in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Despite the undoubted enthusiasm with which educators regarded nature study, and the ambitious aims envisioned for teaching it, little scholarly attention has been paid to the subject and the legacy that nature study bequeathed to later curricular developments. Educational Reform and Environmental Concern explores the theories that supported nature study, as well as its definitions, aims, how it was introduced to curricula and its practice in the classroom, by focusing upon educational reform in the Australian state of New South Wales. This book explores nature study within the context of broader educational reform movements in a period characterised by a transnational exchange of ideas. It is the only book on nature study available to date that focuses on the history of the movement outside the USA, providing a much-needed alternative perspective. Kass considers nature study as it adapted and changed throughout the twentieth century, addressing the extent to which the nature study idea represented, responded to and even influenced concern about the natural environment. Educational Reform and Environmental Concern will appeal to researchers, academics and postgraduate students engaged in the study of educational and environmental history. Researchers with an interest in a transnational or imperial approach to the history of education will also benefit from the wealth of comparative material that Kass presents.
The Nature Study Movement
The Nature Study Movement - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Nature Study Movement write by Kevin C. Armitage. This book was released on 2009. The Nature Study Movement available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first comprehensive history of the nature study movement and its significance to American environmental thought and politics. Argues that nature study advocates, through their systematic program or educating children about nature, formed a critical foundation for the launching of the conservation movement.
Nature Guiding
Nature Guiding - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nature Guiding write by William Gould Vinal. This book was released on 2019-03-15. Nature Guiding available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Nature Guiding is the science of inculcating nature enthusiasm, nature principles, and nature facts into the spirit of individuals. "Doing" nature-study means observing, wondering, and solving problems. It could include collecting, building, measuring, painting, planning, writing, touching, experimenting or any of a wide range of other activities. Most importantly, it allows children to be "original investigators." This book is intended as a resource for teachers and students engaged in nature study at summer camps and in schools. William Gould Vinal believed that the teacher of nature study should be "in sympathy with the simple life and the country way," that the nature study should emphasize observation of the interactions of plants and animals in their environment, and not be reduced to matters of taxonomy and anatomy. In Nature Guiding, he offers advice to camp counselors and school teachers on incorporating nature study into everyday activities, as well as suggestions for parents and others about using visits to state and national parks to teach nature lore.
