TEACHING SCIENCE IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS


as a foundation for this course. It also gives extensive lists of
other valuable references, materials, visual aids, and the like.
Its richness in activities should challenge every earnest science
teacher.
 Activities should be selected from a wide range to help solve
each problem. The teacher, after careful study of the commu-
nity and the needs of the students, can suggest and direct the
school activities significant to the group. These activities will
provide for pupil committees as a means of adding interest and
variety, of developing leadership, of bringing in community
contacts, and of increasing the scope of the whole experience.
The discussion material offers excellent opportunity for panels,
forums, and for bringing in outside speakers. The outside speak-
ers may be selected from parents (trained in any special area),
doctors, the county agricultural agent, the county home dem-
onstration agent, members of the county health unit, Boy Scout
and Girl Scout officers, representatives of the American Red
Cross, and other civic leaders.
 The field trip serves as a very worth while activity in this pro-
gram. The teacher should refer to the general suggestions in this
bulletin concerning field trips. A trip to the grocery store would
provide experience in problems of health, science, and home
living. Some suggested problems are refrigeration of meat, vege-
tables, and dairy products; methods of preserving foods; cuts
of meat and their cost; consumer buying; cleanliness and sani-
tation of foods; and insect control.
 The notebook has a distinct and important place in the pro-
 gram outlined in Everyday Living. It is suggested however, that
 pupil interest not be sacrificed for the notebook. The note-
 book may be divided into sections. One section may be used to
 write up in the best form all important experiments, field trips,
 and demonstrations and as many other items as time permits.
 Another section may be used to keep a list of new words for the
 scientific vocabulary and for class notes. The keeping of a note-
 book should develop habits of self-expression, neatness and
 orderliness, responsibility, and the ability to select the im-
 portant from the unimportant and to follow directions.