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This series of Science Readers was published for the use of
teachers and students. It will be found useful, not only in those
schools in which Elementary Science is taken as a class subject,
but also for the purposes of an ordinary reader.
Of this series of Science Readers, Books I, II, and III are
adapted to pupils who are in their third and fourth years of school
work. Both the reading and the subject matter of Books IV, V, and
VI are suitable for Senior Grades.
It is hoped that the young readers who follow them through these
lessons will catch something of the enthusiasm and earnestness
which characterize them as they advance step by step from very
small beginnings to a real understanding of the elementary facts of
natural science.
目錄：
第一册
Water 1
Water — A Liquid 4
Solids 6
Liquids and Solids 9
The Cat 12
More about the Cat 16
Hard and Soft Bodies 19
Porous Bodies 22
The Dog 25
Dogs 29
A Piece of Clay 34
Clay — Its Uses I 37
Clay — Its Uses II 40
The Cat’s Big Cousins — The Lion 42
The Cat’s Big Cousins — The Tiger 46
Wolves and Foxes 49
A Piece of Putty 52
Putty — What it is 55
Gutta-Percha 57
A Piece of Salt 59
The Sheep 61
Salt 64
The Pig 66
Rock-Salt — Table Salt 69
A Plant 72
Sugar 76
The Root of a Plant 79
Loaf Sugar 82
The Root and its Work 85
About Burning 88
The Stems of Plants 91
Coal I 95
Coal II 97
Leaves 100
Coal — The Mine 103
The Mine and the Miners 106
More about Leaves 110
More about the Mine 112
Flowers 115
What we mean by Elastic
第二册
Porous Bodies 1
Sponge — and its Uses 4
The Sponge 7
Filters 11
The Poor Man’s Filter 14
Soluble 17
Soluble Substances 20
Starch 23
What Starch is 25
Starch for Food 28
Soluble and Insoluble 31
Soap 34
Corn 36
Kinds of Corn 39
Adhesive 42
Cements 45
Wheat and Rice 48
Fusible 51
Maize 54
About Metals 57
Some More about Metals 59
Iron Ore
Iron 64
The Cow 67
Cast-Iron 71
Milk, Butter, Cheese 74
Wrought Iron 77
The Horse 80
Steel 85
The Rabbit 87
Copper 90
The Rabbit at Home 93
Lead 97
The Monkey 100
Tin 103
Three Classes of Monkeys 106
Zinc 110
The Mole 113
Silver 117
Gold
第三册
Water—Its Properties 1
Some of the Uses of Water 5
Birds and their Covering 8
A Feather 12
The Uses of Feathers 16
Water as a Solvent 19
Further Uses of Water 22
Birds 26
Water in other Forms 30
Vapor in the Air 34
Birds and their Beaks 37
More about Beaks 42
Vapor—What Becomes of It 45
Clouds, Rain, Dew 48
Birds—Their Legs and Feet 51
Birds—More about Legs and Feet 55
Solid Water 61
Ice, Hail, and Snow 64
A Snake 67
How the Snake Feeds 71
Mercury 74
The Poisonous Snakes
The Non-Poisonous Snakes 81
Mercury — Its Preparation and Uses 84
The Frog 87
Air 91
More about the Frog 94
More about the Air 97
The Frog and the Toad compared 100
Gases 103
The Frog—Its Life History 106
Coal-Gas 110
A Fish 113
More about Coal-Gas 116
More about the Fish 119
Balloons 122
How The Fish Moves 125
Tar 128
The Fish and its Food 131
Paraffin Oil 134
An Insect 137
Carbonic Acid Gas
More about Insects 144
More about Carbonic Acid Gas 147
Life History of an Insect 150
Parts of a Plant 153
The Spider 157
The Vital Organs of the Plant 161
The Spider’s Web 165
Parts of a Flower 168
More about the Flowers 171
The Flower and its Work 174
Seeds 177
Seedlings 180
The Seed-Leaves 183
The Single Seed-Leaf 186
The Bark 189
Kinds of Bass 192
Flax 195
Linen-Making 198
第四册
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第五册
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第六册
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內容試閱：
Lesson 01
Water
Fred and his cousin Willie were two smart boys in the same
class at school. They were only little boys, but they were fond of
their school and their lessons.
They used to play at school in the evening with Fred’s little
sister Norah.
Their teacher was giving the class jolly lessons on some of
the common things around them. These were not at all like the other
lessons of the day. Teacher gave them to the class as a treat. The
boys soon began to look forward to them, as the best of all their
lessons.
Norah, too, liked to hear all about them from the boys. It was
great fun to sit around the fire in the evening, and chat over the
lessons of the day.
The first lesson was about water.
“What do you think, Norah?” said Fred one evening. “Teacher
began to talk to us about water, by showing us a saucer full of
sawdust.
“He piled up the sawdust in a heap in the saucer, and then
tried to do the same with some water in another saucer.”
“But, of course, he couldn’t do it,” said Willie,
“because you can’t make water stand up in a heap. It always
keeps a flat or level surface.”
“Yes; and, when it got to the top of the saucer, it ran away
over the sides, and on to the table,” added Fred. “We saw it flow
along the table, and fall down to the ground.”
“Why, of course,” said Norah, “water always flows down. We can
see it flow down, if we turn on the tap. It never flows up.”
“Teacher told us to think of the rain, too,” said Willie. “The
drops of rain always fall down—never up.”
“I can show you some drops of water.”said Fred.
“Look; I dip this brush in the water, and shake it. The water
will fall from the brush in little round drops.”
SUMMARY
We cannot pile up water in a heap; it always keeps a level
surface. Water breaks up into little drops, and flows about. Water
always flows down.
Lesson 02
Water—A Liquid
Norah’s mother called her away to mind the baby, before the
boys had told her all about their lesson. She came back as soon as
she could, and they began to chat again.
“I wonder whether Norah forgets what we learned about water,”
said Fred.
“No,” said Norah, “I don’t forget. I know that water flows,
and it always flows down. It keeps a flat surface, and it cannot
stand in a heap. It breaks up into round drops, but the drops will
run together again, and make a pool of water.”
“Quite right,” said Fred. “But now I’m going to puzzle you.
Can you tell me what shape water is?
“Teacher tried to puzzle us; didn’t he, Will? But he soon made
it clear. He showed us the saucer, and we saw that it was round.
Then he filled it with water, and of course it was easy to see that
the water in the saucer was round too.”
“But the water did not remain round,” said Willie, “for
teacher next poured it out of the saucer into a square tin
box.”
“I know.” said Norah, “it became square then, like the
box.”
“Right,” replied Fred, “and then we saw the water poured out
of the box into a tumbler; out of the tumbler into a jug; out of
the jug into a bottle. It took the shape of the new vessel each
time.
“Can you think of any other things, Norah, that would do as
water does?”
“I know some,” said Norah. “Milk and oil, vinegar and tea
would do the same.”
“Now, Norah,” said both boys at once, “you must try not to
forget the proper name for all these things. Teacher tells us to
call them liquids.
“Liquids flow about, break up into drops, take the shape of
the vessel which holds them, and cannot stand in a heap, but always
keep a level surface.”
SUMMARY
Water has no shape of its own. It always takes the shape of
the vessel which holds it. Water, milk, oil, and vinegar are
liquids.
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