From the book:
Illa Podendorf, former Chairman of the Science Department of the Laboratory Schools, University of Chicago, has prepared this series of books with emphasis on the processes of science. The content is selected from the main branches of science-biology, physics, and chemistry but the thrust is on the process skills which are essential in scientific work. Some of the processes emphasized are observing, classifying, communicating, measuring, inferring, and predicting. The treatment is intellectually stimulating which makes it occupy an active part in a child's thinking. This is important in all general education of children.
This book deals with some basic concepts about plants and plant growth. It is designed to help children learn-through experiences with plants and plant parts to distinguish between making guesses that have no basis in fact, and making predictions that are based on experiences and observations, or upon recorded data.
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