A Guide for the Study of Animals. Worrallo Whitney
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Mabel Elizabeth Smallwood, Frederic Colby Lucas, Harold Brough Shinn, Worrallo Whitney
A Guide for the Study of Animals
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664609663
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY STUDIES OF LIVING ANIMALS
CHAPTER III THE CONNECTION BETWEEN STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION
CHAPTER IV ADAPTATION TO SURROUNDINGS
CHAPTER V ADAPTATIONS FOR PROTECTION FROM ENEMIES
D. Protective Habits and Powers
CHAPTER VII ADAPTATIONS FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THE SPECIES
C. Protection and Care of Young
D. Adaptations for the Preservation of the Species
PREFACE
The following guide to the study of animals is intended for pupils in secondary schools. It was prepared by the authors at the request of the Biology Round Table, an association composed of the teachers of Biology in the Chicago High Schools, to whom the authors wish to take this opportunity of expressing their appreciation of the many helpful suggestions and criticisms of the manuscript.
The time has passed when a high school course in zoölogy consists simply of a somewhat simplified edition of a similar course in college. All teachers now recognize that the motivization of any course should be its adaptability to the needs of the student, and that zoölogy must be taught from the standpoint of the student rather than that of the subject. In preparing this guide, the authors have tried to keep these points in mind.
The matter of presentation, the order of topics, and the choice of material has been much discussed, but the trend of opinion has finally set in toward an ecological rather than a type study of animals; that there should be in the case of young students a brief study of rather a large number of animals to bring out some general biological law, rather than an exhaustive study of a very few types. It is further recognized that the use of a reference library is absolutely essential in connection with and to supplement the laboratory work, as there are some topics beyond the ability of the young student for original investigation as well as impossible in the amount of time usually allotted to the subject in our crowded curricula. Of great importance is the economic side of zoölogy, especially its bearing upon the applied sciences of medicine, sanitation, household science, and agriculture, and this phase has received special attention in this guide.
The desirability of field work has always been recognized, but the special conditions under which schools must work are so variable as to make any set directions for field work of little value, and so they have in most cases been omitted in this work. Each teacher can easily give such special direction for collecting material and study in the field as the locality of the school and the time available for it shall determine.
Since zoölogy will probably be the pupil's first laboratory science, the authors have preceded the more formal portion of the manual with a series of short exercises on familiar and easily obtained animals in order to introduce the pupil to the laboratory method and to stimulate his interest, training