Author: Emmy Lou Cooke
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Category : Camps
Languages : en
Pages : 236
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Teaching Children Science
Author: Sally Gregory Kohlstedt
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226449920
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
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.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226449920
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
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.
Cornell University Announcements
Author: Cornell University
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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Abstracts of Theses Accepted in Partial Satisfaction of the Requirements for the Doctor's Degree
Author: Cornell University
Publisher:
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Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 528
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Publisher:
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Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 528
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Forestry Theses Accepted by Colleges and Universities in the United States
Author:
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Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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Publisher:
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Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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Bibliographic Series
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Category : Oregon
Languages : en
Pages : 564
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Category : Oregon
Languages : en
Pages : 564
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Summer Term of the Western State Normal School
Author: Western State Normal School (Kalamazoo, Mich.)
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Category : Universities and colleges
Languages : en
Pages : 474
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Publisher:
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Category : Universities and colleges
Languages : en
Pages : 474
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Bibliographic Series
Author: Oregon. Library. Forest Research Laboratory
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 150
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Publisher:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 150
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Camps and Camping
Author:
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Category : Camps
Languages : en
Pages : 294
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Publisher:
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Category : Camps
Languages : en
Pages : 294
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Proceedings
Author: Pennsylvania State University. Schoolmen's Week
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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Proceedings
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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Publisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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