Introductory statement.-Natural-science instruction in one form or another is given throughout the University Elementary and High schools. In all the grades all pupils have elementary science. In the first year of the high school almost all pupils have general science, the only exceptions being those pupils whohave two foreign languages in their first-year course. Following the first year of the high school the work in the special sciences is elective. General aims.-The work aims to utilize, extend, and develop the pupils' interests; to arouse new interests; to establish a fund of concrete experiences which are experimented with and discussed sufficiently to make them intelligently usable; to develop the habit of recognizing the problems which nature presents, and of trying to discover the explanatory reasons which are involved in such problems; to present to the pupils the types of materials and types of thinking which are involved in some of the divisions of science, and to give an elementary understanding by means of which they may appreciate the significance of some of the contributions which science has made to human welfare; above all the work is designed to stimulate the pupils to use science in their thinking and constructive work and to lead them to a measure of independence as they develop in their powers of observation, discrimination, and interpretation. General methods.-In method, throughout the University Elementary and High schools, considerations of science are constantly based upon concrete experiences recalled from out-of-school life 410
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