Nature Studies
Author : George Francis Scott Elliot
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Page : 370 pages
File Size : 30,84 MB
Release : 1903
Category : Botany
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Author : George Francis Scott Elliot
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Page : 370 pages
File Size : 30,84 MB
Release : 1903
Category : Botany
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Author : Sally Gregory Kohlstedt
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 31,26 MB
Release : 2010-05-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 0226449920
In the early twentieth century, a curriculum known as nature study flourished in major city school systems, streetcar suburbs, small towns, and even rural one-room schools. This object-based approach to learning about the natural world marked the first systematic attempt to introduce science into elementary education, and it came at a time when institutions such as zoos, botanical gardens, natural history museums, and national parks were promoting the idea that direct knowledge of nature would benefit an increasingly urban and industrial nation. The definitive history of this once pervasive nature study movement, TeachingChildren Science emphasizes the scientific, pedagogical, and social incentives that encouraged primarily women teachers to explore nature in and beyond their classrooms. Sally Gregory Kohlstedt brings to vivid life the instructors and reformers who advanced nature study through on-campus schools, summer programs, textbooks, and public speaking. Within a generation, this highly successful hands-on approach migrated beyond public schools into summer camps, afterschool activities, and the scouting movement. Although the rich diversity of nature study classes eventually lost ground to increasingly standardized curricula, Kohlstedt locates its legacy in the living plants and animals in classrooms and environmental field trips that remain central parts of science education today.
Author : J. T. Kesler
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Page : 44 pages
File Size : 30,20 MB
Release : 1906
Category : Biology
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Author : Benjamin Charles Gruenberg
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Page : 628 pages
File Size : 21,39 MB
Release : 1925
Category : Biology
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Author : Hugh Robert Mill
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Page : 454 pages
File Size : 31,26 MB
Release : 1892
Category : Geomorphology
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Author : Anna Botsford Comstock
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,73 MB
Release : 1950
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Author : George Ellison
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 39,66 MB
Release : 2006-04-19
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1420004174
Unprecedented advances in genetics and biotechnology have brought profound new insights into human biological variation. These present challenges and opportunities for understanding the origins of human nature, the nature of difference, and the social practices these sustain. This provides an opportunity for cooperation between the biological and s
Author : Geoffrey Norman Ridley
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Page : 128 pages
File Size : 10,55 MB
Release : 1944
Category : Science
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Page : 316 pages
File Size : 16,15 MB
Release : 1905
Category : Natural history
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Author : Adrian Bejan
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 12,71 MB
Release : 2013-01-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 0307744345
In this groundbreaking book, Adrian Bejan takes the recurring patterns in nature—trees, tributaries, air passages, neural networks, and lightning bolts—and reveals how a single principle of physics, the constructal law, accounts for the evolution of these and many other designs in our world. Everything—from biological life to inanimate systems—generates shape and structure and evolves in a sequence of ever-improving designs in order to facilitate flow. River basins, cardiovascular systems, and bolts of lightning are very efficient flow systems to move a current—of water, blood, or electricity. Likewise, the more complex architecture of animals evolve to cover greater distance per unit of useful energy, or increase their flow across the land. Such designs also appear in human organizations, like the hierarchical “flowcharts” or reporting structures in corporations and political bodies. All are governed by the same principle, known as the constructal law, and configure and reconfigure themselves over time to flow more efficiently. Written in an easy style that achieves clarity without sacrificing complexity, Design in Nature is a paradigm-shifting book that will fundamentally transform our understanding of the world around us.