OUTLINE OF MATERIAL IN THE TEXTBOOKS


3RD GRADE

 Everyday Health by Wilson, Baker, Abbott, and Almack. Publishers Bobbs-
 Merrill Company, New York, 1942. Chapter IX, pp. 68-74.
 (State Adopted)

 A. Use and Misuse of Alcohol

 1. Helps--alcohol helps to make paint, varnish, ink, and other materials
 2. Misuse--inside the body it is harmful

 B. Yeast Plants and Alcohol

 1. Fruit juices spoil when left in the open air, smell sour, and have a
 biting taste due to alcohol,
 2. Alcohol made by yeast plants--plants float through air and dust
 3. Children experiment by watching yeast make alcohol--they disolve a
 cake of yeast in sweetened water--bubbles rise in the jar
 4. Children taste and find alcohol makes water bitter. Yeast plants
 and sugar have made alcohol
 5. Alcohol is poison, but useful as good cleaner and used in paint
 and dyes (reference to alcohol as a poison left out of the 1948
 revision)
 6. Alcohol is not easy to freeze. It is put in radiators to keep them
 from freezing. It is used in ink, shoe polish, paint and varnish.
 7. Poison--anything taken into the body which will cause sickness or
 death. In medicine cabinets poisons should be labeled red with
 skull and crossbones. (This statement is not in the 1948 edition).
 8. "Beer and wines contain some alcohol. Children should not use these
 drinks. Drink fresh fruit juices and milk."

 C. Alcohol and Growth

 1, Experiments were made to show alcohol harms plants. First plant
 was watered and grew. Second plant was not watered and lived a few
 days. The third plant was fed alcohol and died.
 2. Exhibit of good foods and drinks for growth--fresh fruits and
 vegetables from home, also, bread, butter, eggs, cereal, milk,
 meat, and water.
 3. Is alcohol a food? No. Boys and girls should never put alcohol
 in their stomachs, instead drink milk, water, and fruit juices.
 (The statement in the place of C in the 1948 edition reads, "Boys
 and girls who want to be healthy should not take drinks that
 contain alcohol.")