Handbook of nature study by anna botsford comstock online
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Beautiful Feet Books: Pocahontas. Pagoo, Paperback. Witness the wonders of God's creation with naturalist Comstock as your guide! In the mids, the New York Society for the Promotion of Agriculture enlisted her help to introduce a nature study program into local schools in Westchester County. Though some resisted the notion of nature study in schools, the program eventually spread nationwide.
Comstock wrote leaflets, study guides, and books, and taught teachers across the country. Cornell University hired Comstock as an assistant in nature study in , and two years later, she became the first female professor at that institution. Conservative trustees objected and she was demoted to lecturer, only to be reinstated the following year.
However, she was not offered a full professorship until She died of cancer in Ithaca, New York on August 24, Anna Botsford Comstock advocated the sort of attention to nature that we have lost and are just beginning to realize we have lost—how to observe, how to play, how to be. Despite language we might consider quaint and assumptions that are not quite PC e.
In it, she advocates a careful study of the nature that is close at hand and that is interesting to the student, reasoning that understanding an individual of a particular species fosters interest in the larger scientific world. The Handbook of Nature Study is available at local and online bookstores, though the most current version is a scan of the original and the image quality has suffered as a result. If you can lay your hands on a used copy, by all means do so.
Ask them to choose something in nature plant or animal either at home or at school, to observe for 5 minutes a day for a week this is just a suggestion—you could do it once a week for a number of weeks or 5 minutes for two weeks, etc.
Encourage them to write down their observations and illustrate them as appropriate. If students are able, have them read the passages in The Handbook of Nature Study about the plant or animal they have chosen. At the end of the allotted period, give students an opportunity to share some of their observations.
Though it is designed for homeschool families, her material is extensive and much of it is easily adaptable to a classroom study. For older students, particularly girls, who might be interested in women naturalists, I recommend the book Girls Who Looked Under Rocks, by Jeannine Atkins. Her husband begrudgingly admits that this can sometimes be useful, like when she spotted the grizzly bear in Yellowstone.
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