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THE thirty-six object-lessons contained in the present volume form the third part of a scheme of lessons drawn up by the author at the request of the Liverpool School Board. They are designed for children of Standard III., and are in continuation of others given in previously published volumes suitable for Standards I. and II. The author's long experience in teaching science to children in elementary schools gives him the ability which is necessary properly to draw up such a course as the one before us. For the most part the facts and principles dealt with relate to the classification of bodies into solids, liquids, and gases, and with the changes from one of these states to another. The experiments described may be performed with the simplest of apparatus, and the inferences to be drawn from them must be manifest to all children for whom the work is intended. Whenever possible, the principles considered in the lessons are applied to explain physiographical phenomena, thus aiding the development of that intelligent observation which is the soul of science. The arrangement of the matter is generally good, and elementary school teachers will find in the work exactly what they require for their pupils.
Elementary Science Lessons.
By W. Hewitt (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1891.)
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Elementary Science Lessons. Nature 44, 444 (1891). https://doi.org/10.1038/044444b0
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