Excerpt from Science in Our World of ProgressTo best make science function at the junior high school level, several things must be done. During those three years children undergo great changes in body, -in ability to learn, in attitudes and ways of doing and thinking. Our methods and subject matter must be adapted carefully to these changes. The teaching tech niques of the seventh grade must be quite different from those used in the ninth grade. At the seventh - grade level the teacher must use simple language. The science vocabulary should be restricted to the use of relatively simple terms. The experiments and demon strations should be easy to understand and to perform. The teach ing techniques should be adjusted to the levels of the immature youngster of this group. At the eighth-grade level, after a year of exposure to the junior high school activities, our boy or girl comes back to school in the fall with a perspective much enlarged and with a social viewpoint quite different from that held in the previous year. The instruction at this level and the quality of work will therefore be not only at a higher terrace of difficulty, but should be given from quite a different social viewpoint. As the outlook of. The child broadens in the third year of the junior high school, a third cycle of science activities will develop at a still higher terrace of difficulty. At this age level the child might transfer his science interests to the wider field of the nation and the world.The underlying theme for junior high school science should be first, at the lowest level, Simple knowledges about the interesting and useful science in the immediate environment of the individual. In the second year understanding is more the goal, while in the last year interpretation and application of science are the desired out comes. The philosophy Of presentation should result in the ulti mate generalization that man oi all the animals is the only one who can control and artificially change his environment. As such, he has dominion over the earth.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.