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Living Material In The Laboratory, O. R. Clark
Living Material In The Laboratory, O. R. Clark
Science Bulletin
Living plants and animals serve as valuable aids in stimulating interest in the biology course and, during that part of the year when field trips are impossible, provide material for the study of habits and the relation of organisms to their environment. Laboratory conditions are of course artificial but they should be made as nearly natural as it is possible to make them.
Insects And Man, Roy L. Abbott
Insects And Man, Roy L. Abbott
Science Bulletin
Biologically speaking, insects may be called a highly successful group, and much of this success is due to their adaptability to the conditions of their environment. They are found everywhere, and eat almost everything. All of the large groups of insects are world-wide in their distribution, though the most widely distributed are the beetles.
Insects And Man, Roy L. Abbott
Insects And Man, Roy L. Abbott
Science Bulletin
Mrs. Jiggs, in the cartoon, "Bringing up Father," frequently calls her husband an insect. This is a flagrant misuse of the term as an insect never has fewer nor more than six legs. It may be wingless as are the bedbugs, two winged as are all flies, or four winged as the grasshoppers, but no normal insect ever has more or less than six legs and by this one positive character you may know them.
Collecting Specimens At Night, Roy L. Abbott
Collecting Specimens At Night, Roy L. Abbott
Science Bulletin
Many teachers of biology don’t realize how much valuable biological material may be collected after dark. In fact, certain specimens, as grasshoppers, earthworms, and various species of amphibia, are most easily captured then.
Introducing The Biology Course In The Classroom, Roy L. Abbott
Introducing The Biology Course In The Classroom, Roy L. Abbott
Science Bulletin
The success of any course in high school science often depends upon the interest aroused in it during the first days of its presentation. This interest is particularly easy to arouse in biology, chiefly, l suppose, because people are always interested in living things, or things that have been alive. Moreover, though he does not recognize it as such, nearly every pupil has considerable biological knowledge when he first comes to class, and it is this preliminary knowledge which can be made a strong entering wedge into his interest in the subject.
Cockroaches For Laboratory Study, Roy L. Abbott
Cockroaches For Laboratory Study, Roy L. Abbott
Science Bulletin
Teachers of high school biology are often handicapped by a lack of living material. This is particularly true in the teaching of insects. Most texts in biology use the grasshopper as a type of insect, largely, I suppose, because of its familiarity to the average pupil.