Abstract
(First part of Introduction) The problem of this thesis is to present a number of biological projects which have been found suitable for development in a medial class in a secondary school with moderate equipment. It is intended that portions of this thesis will be used as a guide for instruction of future students, and as a basis for further development of the project method of approach to high school science. A beginning biology teacher will find this thesis a workable introduction to laboratory projects dealing with plants and animals.|In most high schools, biology is a required subject, and the teacher works with an unselected group. To be a successful subject it must have life and movement for it is the study of life. When the science becomes an experience of textbook memorization interspersed with a laboratory study of inanimate objects, it is a dead subject to the student. The aim has been to promote mental growth, and to develop the satisfaction and adventure of personal discovery in a beginning science, for the arts, trades, and crafts of mankind are all expressions of physical energy directed by original thinking. In this search for knowledge teacher and pupil should form a partnership, each teaching and each learning. The requirements of the laboratory course should be adapted to the varying natural abilities and interests of the students.|The problems to be presented are those which, through actual experience and trial over a period of two years, were found to stimulate the mind and sustain the natural curiosity of this particular age group, improvements were made and unsatisfactory materials deleted as experience indicated.