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Nature Guiding is the science of inculcating nature enthusiasm, nature principles, and nature facts into the spirit of individuals. "Doing" nature-study means observing, wondering, and solving problems. It could include collecting, building, measuring, painting, planning, writing, touching, experimenting or any of a wide range of other activities. Most importantly, it allows children to be "original investigators."

This book is intended as a resource for teachers and students engaged in nature study at summer camps and in schools. William Gould Vinal believed that the teacher of nature study should be "in sympathy with the simple life and the country way," that the nature study should emphasize observation of the interactions of plants and animals in their environment, and not be reduced to matters of taxonomy and anatomy. In Nature Guiding, he offers advice to camp counselors and school teachers on incorporating nature study into everyday activities, as well as suggestions for parents and others about using visits to state and national parks to teach nature lore.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Frontispiece
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  1. Title Page
  2. p. i
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  1. Preface
  2. William Gould Vinal
  3. pp. iii-iv
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  1. Table of Contents
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  1. Publishers Acknowledgments
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  1. Foreword
  2. Anna Botsford Comstock
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  1. Epigraph
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  1. Introduction
  2. pp. ix-x
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  1. Part 1 Nature-Lore for Camps
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  1. Chapter 1 Nature Leaders for Camps
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  1. Chapter 2 Nature-Lore for Camps
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  1. Chapter 3 The Nature Way at Camp Chequesset
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  1. Chapter 4 The Camp Museum
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  1. Chapter 5 Etiquette of the Woods
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  1. Chapter 6 Suggestions for Religion From the Out-Of-Doors
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  1. Chapter 7 Nature Games
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  1. Chapter 8 Suggestions for Nature Trails
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  1. Chapter 9 A Nature Guides' Dictionary
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  1. Chapter 10 Outdoor Cooking
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  1. Chapter 11 Craft Out of the Environment
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  1. Chapter 12 Common Mistakes in Natural History
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  1. Chapter 13 "Timber Lines"
  2. pp. 159-166
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  1. Part 2 Nature-Study for Schools
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  1. Chapter 14 Teacher Training in Nature-Study
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  1. Chapter 15 The Nature-Study Movement in America
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  1. Chapter 16 Organization of a Nature Club
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  1. Chapter 17 The Organization of Nature Instruction on the Psychological Basis
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  1. Chapter 18 Some General Principles of Nature Teaching
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  1. Chapter 19 The Teachikg Lesson in Nature-Study
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  1. Chapter 20 Nature-Study and the Project Method
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  1. Chapter 21 Knowing Nature Facts
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  1. Chapter 22 Observation Tests in Nature-Study
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  1. Chapter 23 Mainly the Pedagogy of Seeds With Some Seeds of Pedagogy
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  1. Chapter 24 First Grade Readers a Survey and Criticism
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  1. Chapter 25 Suggestions for Arbor Day Program
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  1. Chapter 26 Some Mechanical Aids in Nature-Study
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  1. Chapter 27 Suggestions for Picture Study in Nature-Study
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  1. Chapter 28 Nature-Study by Grades
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  1. Part 3 Suggestions for Teaching Some Nature Lessons
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  1. Chapter 29 Geography Lessons in the Primary and in the Grammar Grades
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  1. Chapter 30 Geography Lessons in the Primary Grades
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  1. Chapter 31 Field Work for Fourth Grades
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  1. Chapter 32 Field Lessons for Fourth Grade
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  1. Chapter 33 Map Study
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  1. Chapter 34 Ten Lessons on Our Food Supply
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  1. Chapter 35 Nature Gardening
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  1. Chapter 36 An Outline for a Study of the Potato
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  1. Chapter 37 Potato Geography
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  1. Chapter 38 The Tomato
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  1. Chapter 39 Study of the Tulip and Other Bulbs
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  1. Chapter 40 Community Projects in a Sand-Box
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  1. Chapter 41 Tree Surgery and Dentistry Rules for the Tree Doctor
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  1. Chapter 42 The Uses of the Forest
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  1. Chapter 43 Decoration With Plants
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  1. Chapter 44 The Teaching of Plant Diseases in the Grades
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  1. Chapter 45 Rhode Island Trees: A Type Study in Tree Geography
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  1. Chapter 46 "Grasshopper" a Type Lesson in Insect-Study
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  1. Chapter 47 Suggestive Lessons in Bird-Study: The Woodpecker
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  1. Chapter 48 The Black-Crowned Night Heron
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  1. Chapter 49 Suggestive Lessons in Bird-Study
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  1. Chapter 50 The Diary of a Nature Guide's Son
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  1. Chapter 51 Notes by a Yosemite Nature Guide
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  1. Chapter 52 Nature-Study on the Playground
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  1. Chapter 53 Winter Nature-Study: Was and Is
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  1. Chapter 54 Nature-Lore: A Selected Bibliography
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  1. Index
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  1. Copyright
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