LESSON V. 1. What is the southern point of Africa named? Of South Amer ica? 2. Point out and read the names of four large islands between Australia and Asia. 3. Which is the largest of these? 4. Find out the place where North America and Asia come nearly together: what separates them? 5. Which is the largest ocean? 6. Which is the longest and narrowest? 7. What small ocean around the north pole? 8. What ocean around the south pole? LESSON VI. 1. Find the Amazon River, in South America. 2. Point out the Mississippi, in North America. 3. Find the Nile, in Africa; the Niger. 4. Find some great river in Asia. 5. Find the largest river in Europe. 6. Find any other river that you have ever heard of. 7. Put your finger on the globe where the Amazon seems to begin; follow it down to the ocean: in what direction does it flow? 8. In the same way follow the Mississippi, and tell its direction. 9. Follow down the Nile, and tell its course. LESSON VII. 1. Find the longest range of mountains in North America; read the name. 2. Follow the range with your finger: in what direction does it extend? 3. Find the longest range in South America; follow it with your finger over its whole length: what is its direction? 4. Look at Asia; see if you can find the Himalaya Mountains. 5. Find the name of any other range in Asia. 6. See what mountains you can find in Europe. 7. In Africa. LESSON VIII. 1. Find a sea between North America and South America. 2. Put your finger on a sea between Europe and Africa; name it. 3. Point out a sea south of Asia. 4. Put your finger on a sea north of the island of Borneo. 5. Find a sea between Asia and the Japan isles. 6. What long and narrow sea between Africa and Asia? 8. Find a great gulf south of the United States. 9. Find a great bay north of the United States. 10. Put your finger on a great bay south of Asia. 11. Find a gulf west of Africa, near the equator. 12. Find and name any other bay, gulf, or sea that you can. SECTION II.-SECOND SERIES OF GLOBE LESSONS. LESSON I. 1. Put your finger on the equator, and follow that circle entirely round the globe: in what direction does it extend? 2. Which point is at the greater distance from the equator, the north pole or the south pole? 3. Make up a definition of the equator. 4. Count the small circles between the equator and the north pole; the south pole. 5. There are 360° in a circle: equator to the north pole? how many degrees is it from the The south pole? 6. How many degrees from the equator is the first circle north of it? The second? The third? etc. 7. How many degrees south of the equator is the first circle? The second? The third? etc. 8. What is the use of these circles parallel to the equator? Ans. To show the distance of places north or south from the equator. LESSON II. 1. Put your finger on London, the largest city in the world. 2. Passing near London, north and south, you see a heavily marked black line; follow it with your finger from the north pole to the south pole. 3. What part of the distance round the globe does this line ex tend? 4. Where does it begin and where does it end? 5. What is this half-circle called? Ans. The meridian of Greenwich. 6. See if you can find any other half-circles on the globe. 7. Beginning on the equator, at the meridian of Greenwich, count the half-circles eastward round the globe: how many? 8. Now read the figures on the equator where each of these halfcircles crosses it: what is the first numbered east of the meridian of Greenwich? 9. What is the use of these half-circles or meridians? Ans. To show how many degrees places are east or west from the meridian of Greenwich. LESSON III. Note.-Teachers will now explain the use of the terms latitude and longitude. 1. You will look for the figures showing latitude on the meridian of Greenwich; put your finger on the place named, and then follow the parallel passing through or near that place around to the meridian of Greenwich. If you have a meridian globe, bring the place to the edge of the brass meridian. The degree over the place, counted from the equator, gives the latitude. 2. In what latitude is London ? 3. In what latitude is the northern part of South America? 4. Cape Horn? Cape of Good Hope? 5. The mouth of the Amazon? 6. New York? Philadelphia? Cuba? 7. The Himalaya Mountains? The Isthmus of Suez ? 8. For the figures marking longitude, look on the equator, put your finger on the place named, and follow the meridian passing through or near it to the equator, and read the figures. With a meridian globe, bring the place to the edge of the brazen meridian; the degree on the equator, cut by this meridian, is the longitude of the place. 9. What is the longitude of Cape Horn? Cape of Good Hope? 10. Of Iceland? Of the mouth of the Amazon? 11. Of the Isthmus of Panama ? 12. Of the mouth of the Mississippi? 14. Of the Caribbean Sea ? 15. Of the Sandwich Islands? 16. Of the eastern point of Africa? 17. Of the western point of South America? 18. Of the Nile River? 19. What is the greatest latitude any place can have? Why? The greatest longitude? Why? 20. What places have no latitude? no longitude? Why? 21. Where is the place that has neither latitude nor longitude? LESSON IV. 1. Point out, and follow with your finger around the globe, the dotted circle 233° north of the equator; find its name. 2. Point out in the same way the dotted circle 23° south of the equator: what is it called? 3. Add 23 to 233. 4. How wide is the equatorial, or torrid, zone? 5. Point out and name two large islands in this belt or zone. 6. Find two grand divisions principally within this zone. 7. What great river is entirely within this zone? 8. What important isthmus? 9. What ocean is mainly in it? 10. In what zone is the Niger River? LESSON V. 1. Find a sea, a bay, and a gulf partly in this zone. 2. Find a sea wholly in this zone. 3. Point out on the globe the dotted circle 23° south of the north pole: what is this circle named ? 4. What great island does this circle cross? 5. What three grand divisions does it pass through? 6. Near what straits does it pass? 7. Find a dotted circle 232° north of the south pole: what is it called? 8. The north temperate zone lies between the arctic circle and the tropic of Cancer; follow it around the globe with your two fingers, one on each circle. 9. Point out a great sea in this zone. LESSON VI. 1. In what zone is our country? 2. In what zone are the Japan islands? 3. In what zone is London? Paris? New York? Boston? San Francisco? 4. Find the south temperate zone. 5. What great island partly in this zone? 6. Find two cities in this zone. 7. In which zone is Cape Horn? Cape of Good Hope? LESSON VII.-MAP EXERCISE. Note. After finishing the globe lessons, hang up an outline map of the hemispheres, ask as many of the preceding globe questions as are suitable for the map, and require pupils singly to point to the places with a pointer. SECTION III.-LESSONS IN LOCAL GEOGRAPHY. Note for Teachers.-The following sets of questions are merely suggestive of extended lists to be asked by teachers: I. FIRST STEPS.-THE SCHOOLROOM. 1. What is the part of the room over your heads called? 2. What is the part under your feet called? 3. How many sides has this room? 4. How many ends? |