CORRELATIONS
With literature and reading: By interpreting "The Maple", The Ontario Readers, Third Book, page 179;
With art: By sketching the tree and reproducing the autumn leaves in colour work.
WEED STUDIES
In every locality there are about a dozen weeds that are particularly troublesome, and the pupils of Form III should be taught to identify these and to understand the characteristics which make each weed persistent.
To produce these results it will be necessary to have exercises such as the following:
1. The teacher exhibits a weed to the pupils and directs their attention to a few of the outstanding features of the plant.
2. The pupils are required, as a field exercise, to observe where the weed is abundant; and whether in hay field, pasture, hoe crop, or in grain. The pupils will bring specimens to the class.
3. Detailed study in the class of specimens of the weed brought by the pupils to find offensive odours and prickles, also the character of the leaves, flowers, seed pods, and seeds, including the means of dispersal; the underground parts, whether underground stem, tap-root, or fibrous root, and the value of the underground parts as a means of persistence.
4. The pupils make a collection of the weeds that have been studied. (See Plant Collection, page 39, in General Method.)