 | The University of Virginia record April, 1908 |  |
NATURE STUDY.
| Professor Davis. | Miss King. |
The following topics will be treated in this course: Bird neighbors, 54; insectiverous
birds; seed eating birds; birds of prey; the American toad, 196; collecting
insects for school use; life in a terrarium; the cabbage butterfly; the grasshopper;
the housefly; the tent caterpillar; life in an aquarium; June beetles; mosquitoes
and health; honey bees; earth worms; the teeth of animals; osmosis; digestion and
absorption; Nature's flying machines; how Nature prepares for winter; rock layers,
and other rocks; how Nature forms soils; movements of soils; preserving plants
for school use; how plants get up in the world; annual flowering plants, 195; storage
of nourishment in seeds; the office of root-hairs on plants; struggles in a tree-top.
Substitute lessons: Light relation; cross-pollenizing and self-pollenizing in flowers;
relation of season to life history of plant; annual, biennials, and perennials; tasseling
and silking of corn; useful weeds, 188; lessons from the strawberry plant, 198.
Lessons subject to change. Numbers refer to United States Farmers' Bulletins.
Daily, from 3.30 to 4.30. West Range Laboratory.
School Gardens.—This course will be very practical, consisting of the actual
work in a school garden by a class of children under the supervision of the instructor.
fertilized, what vegetables and what flowers raised which will mature during the
school session, the effect of certain insects on those plants for good or for bad, and
the various interesting subjects that arise during the process of cultivation, will
be treated. The school garden will be easily accessible to students and all are invited
to observe the work done.
| The University of Virginia record April, 1908 | |