Problems in Botany (Classic Reprint)
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Author(s)W. L. Eikenberry
PublisherForgotten Books
ISBN / ASIN133025662X
ISBN-139781330256626
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Excerpt from Problems in Botany
The rapid development of our country during the last few years has brought about a more general recognition of the great importance of the basic industry of plant production and of the necessity of applying the scientific method to this industry. This recognition emphasizes the importance of the study of the laws of plant growth, whether under the name of botany or of agriculture.
In presenting this manual it is the intention to place before high-school pupils a series of problems which have to do with the activities of plants and with their relations to human interests.
The problem method of presentation has been used. The experience of the best teachers shows that the interest of pupils is better maintained when, so far as practicable, each laboratory exercise is presented as a definite problem, the solution of which must be achieved by the pupil with only such assistance as will enable him to apprehend the problem and secure the necessary data. Furthermore, the experiences to which it is expected that the pupils will apply their scientific training present themselves as discrete problems, and it is therefore highly desirable, educationally, that their school work should tend to produce in them the habit of solving environmental problems in a scientific manner. At the same time it is recognized that there are some topics in botany as in any other science that do not lend themselves readily to statement in the form of problems. The author has not hesitated to depart from the problem method of attack in the case of individual exercises when another form appeared desirable.
The manual is organized about the activities of plants rather than about their structures.
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The rapid development of our country during the last few years has brought about a more general recognition of the great importance of the basic industry of plant production and of the necessity of applying the scientific method to this industry. This recognition emphasizes the importance of the study of the laws of plant growth, whether under the name of botany or of agriculture.
In presenting this manual it is the intention to place before high-school pupils a series of problems which have to do with the activities of plants and with their relations to human interests.
The problem method of presentation has been used. The experience of the best teachers shows that the interest of pupils is better maintained when, so far as practicable, each laboratory exercise is presented as a definite problem, the solution of which must be achieved by the pupil with only such assistance as will enable him to apprehend the problem and secure the necessary data. Furthermore, the experiences to which it is expected that the pupils will apply their scientific training present themselves as discrete problems, and it is therefore highly desirable, educationally, that their school work should tend to produce in them the habit of solving environmental problems in a scientific manner. At the same time it is recognized that there are some topics in botany as in any other science that do not lend themselves readily to statement in the form of problems. The author has not hesitated to depart from the problem method of attack in the case of individual exercises when another form appeared desirable.
The manual is organized about the activities of plants rather than about their structures.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
