Excerpt from Suggestions for Primary and Intermediate Lessons on the Human Body: A Study of Its Structure and Needs Correlated With Nature Study In the lower grades, especially, physiology and hygiene occupy an isolated place, being completely cut off from those subjects with which they are naturally related and in which the pupils are interested. The method employed in teaching is mainly either the narrative or the text-book method. The subject-matter suggested in courses of study for primary grades is, in most cases, well adapted to the capacity of young children, being a study of the ex ternal parts of the body, as the arm, the leg, the trunk, et'c., together with the general needs of the body, as food, water, air, etc.
In this book I have taken the topics of the outline generally used, and endeavored to work them out in detail and relate them to topics in Nature Study or Science Work, continuing the study of the principal parts of the body until their internal as well as their external structure is included.
There is no attempt to outline a complete course in Nature Study. The pupils in nearly all the schools observed, are studying plants, animals, air, water, etc. It is only a step from the consideration of these topics to those relat ing to the structure and needs of the human body, and it is this step that I would indicate to teachers, and suggest methods by which the latter can be taught in an interest ing and profitable manner.
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