Elementary Science by Grades Book Four: A Nature Study and Science Reader (1929)
Persing, Ellis C., Wildman, Edward E. · D. Appleton and Company · leaf 161
HOW TO TELL DIRECTION 143 color on the old hark of trees and the green patch on stones, you will know which way is north. … THE COMPASS NEEDLE ALWAYS POINTS TOWARD THE NORTH AND SOUTH. Still another way of telling direction is with the compass. In the picture you can see a com¬ pass. It is called a magnetic compass because its needle is a little magnet. You remember reading about the bar and horseshoe magnets. About…
Science · Ants · Wasps · Turtles · Crayfish · Trees · Mushrooms · Birds · Beavers · Muskrat · Bears · Milky Way · Balloons · Water · Windmills · Kites
Internet Archive · National Library of Education · Public domain (published before 1931). Free to use for anything.
