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1st Year
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A) Knowledge and distinction of colors. |
| B) Observation of the external features of several bodies, their qualities and uses. |
| C) Studies of known animals and their classification by external features: feather, fur and scales animals; animals that walk, that fly, that swim, that crawl; useful animals, harmful animals. |
| D) Knowledge of some animal products: meat, bone, leather, horn, teeth, feathers, fur, etc. |
| E) Lectures on known vegetables: utility and use of their products in food, home remedies, construction and manufacturing of furniture, fabrics, paper, etc. |
| F) Fruit trees from fields, jungles and orchards. |
| G) Advice on diet. |
| H) Advice on personal grooming. |
| I) Harmful effects of smoking and drinking alcohol. |
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2nd Year
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A) Objective teaching of the states and qualities of the bodies; solid, liquid and gaseous bodies; rough, smooth and slippery bodies; fragile, resistant, porous, translucent, opaque, elastic, flexible bodies; combustible, flammable, explosive, fusible, soluble, fibrous, granular, sounding, astringent, spicy, acidic, sweet, salty bodies. |
| B) First observations on vertebrate and invertebrate animals; animals that are useful and harmful to agriculture. Domestic animals. Animals useful to men; harmful animals: means of defense that we have. Studies of the life of some very important animals, such as ox, horse, sheep, goat, domestic birds, bees, silkworm, etc. |
| C) Elementary study of the human body; general observations of the human body; general observations on the hygiene of eating and of the senses. |
| D) Care with the organ of sight to prevent the diseases that attack it. |
| E) Study of some useful produce: yerba mate, coffee, cotton, wheat, rice, beans, potato, vegetables, etc. |
| F) Observations on seed germination. |
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3rd Year
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A) Atmospheric air: barometers. |
| B) Air composition. Stale air. Air humidity and its causes. |
| C) Evaporation; observation on the general phenomenon of evaporation, its causes and effects. |
| D) Rain: formation of rain and its effects. |
| F) Winds; its causes and its effects. |
| G) Very simple studies of some well-known minerals: iron, stone coal, lead, copper, nickel, silver, gold. |
| H) Water; its composition. Fresh and saline waters. Brackish and drinking waters. Mineral and medicinal waters. Thermal waters. |
| I) Heat; heat sources. Thermometers. |
| J) Animals; main characteristics of vertebrates and invertebrates. |
| K) Useful animals. |
| L) Man; main parts of the human body. Main skeleton bones. |
| M) Digestive system; its function. |
| N) Description of the instruments most used in agriculture. |
| O) The various processes for artificial reproduction of vegetables; cutting, layering and grafting. |
| P) Growing of some useful vegetables in experience fields: coffee, cotton, sugar cane, cereals. Fruit trees, leguminous plants. Benefits that these plants provide to man. |
| Q) The growing of roses, carnations and other flowers. |
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4th Year
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A) Brief explanations about the electric bell, telephone, telegraph, lightning rod, pendulum, clock, electric light and power, air circulation, air heating, gas lighting, the vapor pressure of water, the corrosive action of acids and alkalis; the dissolving power of alcohol and turpentine essence, etc.; steam and electricity applications, etc. |
| B) Animal classification: elementary study of the main classes of vertebrates. |
| C) Elementary study of the human skeleton. |
| D) General characteristics of the invertebrates. |
| E) Respiratory, circulatory and digestive systems. |
| F) Elementary study of the senses. |
| G) Planting and growing of fruit trees and more useful vegetables typical of our climate. Planting season and growing processes. Pruning process season. |
| H) Fertilizers. |
| I) Hygiene of houses, clothes and food. Physical exercises, the need for them, and their benefits. Rest and sleep. |
| J) Insects that transmit diseases. |
| K) Contagious and infectious diseases; malaria, tuberculosis, trachoma, leprosy; means for preventing them, and how to treat them. |
| L) Antiophidic, anti-diphtheria and anti-tetanus serum; rabies and its preventive treatment. |
| M) Vaccination against smallpox and typhoid fever. |
| N) Urgent care in case of injuries, fractures, vertigo, burns and asphyxia. |
| O) Care with injuries to the feet and hands; use of hydrophilic cotton, gauze, bandages, iodine, hydrogen peroxide, etc. |
