Excerpt from Our Environment, Its Relation to Us, Vol. 1
The Modern Science Series for Junior High School grades is the coordinating series between Elementary School science and the specialized sciences of the upper high school. This volume of the Modern Science Series is so organized that it may be used independently as an effective introduction to science, as well as the first-year member of the integrated series for the junior high grades.
The book is organized into a small number of related units. Each unit presents a unified picture and understanding of some significant phase of the pupil"s environment. Each unit is developed through a series of interdependent topics, each topic representing a sub-unit part of the unified whole.
Problem-solving abilities are cultivated by the general problems into which each topic is analyzed. Each general problem may include a number of projects. These projects may be handled by a whole class, a group selected by the class, or by an individual. The general problem belongs to the class as a whole.
The problem method involves, first, a realization of a significant problem by the pupil; and second, a background from which he can make his attack on the problem. To these ends, the pupil"s natural, everyday experiences must be reenforced by carefully directed observational training. Not only must the work of the classroom comprehend these purposes, but their attainment should be advanced also by out-of-school contacts which will crystallize the habits of careful, accurate observation and judgment.
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