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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo11amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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TeachtT and class at the Museum. " Tlie fruit of the Museums influence often appears months afterward in some reading lesson or conversation" TUESDAY AT THE MUSEUM Bj/ Mary B. C. Bi/rue Primary Teacher, Public School No. 9, The Bronx WHEN I caiiie away from the American IVIiiseum of Natural History, Tuesday, I carried witli me a sense of that institution's cfHcient service to the children of our f^reater city; and with an army of other teachers, I am grateful for the inspiring message which the )\Iuseum daily speaks to New York City's children through us their primary teachers. The work is of \ery tangible assistance to teacher, pupil and home. Looking over the suggestive topics in the Course of Sfu(h/ for the Ele- inoiianj Sehools of the City of Xeir Yorh, tlie teacher of fiftli year nature comes upon such large-looming headings as "Adaptation to Knvironment" and "Elementary Classification" and she asks herself, "How can I teach 'adaptation to environment' when there is nothing at hand, save a stray fly or English si)arr()w"" "How shall I teach 'elementary classification' when there is no ilhistrati\e material, save such forms of life as are found on the city's asphalt pavements or within the l)rick walls of the nearby apartment houses or factories?" In answer to this problem comes the temj)tation to fall back on the time-honored textl)ook methods, but conscious of the delusion of isolated fact-learning, she an.swers her first qtiestion by asking a second: "What gain shall come to Dominick Ciiiantomasi, or to Moses Rozansky, or to Patrick Sweeney, e\en though they do master such terms with definitions as 'amphibians, molhisks, crustaceans," and all the rest?" It is in this definite and puzzling situation that the Museum comes forward with help. 262

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