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A Method of Teaching Chemistry in Schools Elementary Science of Common Life (Chemistry) An Elementary Study of Chemistry

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THE authors of the “Method of Teaching Chemistry in Schools” claim to have discovered a new method of teaching elementary chemistry, based on the principle of working from the known to the unknown. Although one may be inclined to question the novelty of the discovery, there is no doubt of the efficacy of the principle. The book is written in the form of suggestions to the teacher. The directions are clear and concise, the illustrations are excellent, and the book is embellished by photographs of the pioneers of chemistry. But it is not the method of treatment, which is scarcely new, or the arrangement of the subject, which might conceivably be improved, which commends the book. What impresses one favourably is its manner rather than its matter. It is written by thoughtful teachers, who have striven in an attractive way to get as much out of each simple problem as it can be made to yield. For the beginner in science, the imparting of many facts or the elucidation of general theories is not wanted; what is required is the cultivation of intelligent observation and of common-sense explanations of phenomena, and if this, is the aim of the little book, as we take it to be, it undoubtedly fulfils its purpose.

A Method of Teaching Chemistry in Schools.

By A. M. Hughes R. Stern. Pp. xii + 120. (Cambridge: University Press, 1906.) Price 3s. net.

Elementary Science of Common Life (Chemistry).

By W. T. Boone. Pp. 252. (London: W. B. Clive, University Tutorial Press, Ltd., 1906.) Price 2s.

An Elementary Study of Chemistry.

By Dr. W. McPherson Dr. W. E. Henderson. Revised edition. Pp. viii + 434. (Boston and London: Ginn and Co., n.d.) Price 6s.

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C., J. A Method of Teaching Chemistry in Schools Elementary Science of Common Life (Chemistry) An Elementary Study of Chemistry . Nature 76, 170–171 (1907). https://doi.org/10.1038/076170b0

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