390 REPORT— 1897. 



carefully at the most common phenomena and the chief features of the 

 land's surface. 



Elementary Course (7-9 years). 



Continuation and development of the exercises of the previous stage. 

 The points of the compass, not learned by heart, but discovered in the 

 field, in the playground, during walks, and according to the position of 

 the sun. 



Exercises in observation : the seasons, the chief atmospheric pheno- 

 mena, the horizon, the nature of the land's surface, &c. 



Explanation of geographical terms (mountains, rivers, seas, gulfs, 

 isthmuses, straits, &c.), always beginning from objects seen by the pupil 

 and proceeding by analogy. 



Preparatory study of geography by intuitive and descriptive methods: 



1st. Local geography (house,' street, village, commune, canton, &c.). 

 2nd. General geography (the earth, its form and dimensions, its great 

 divisions and their subdivisions). 



The notion of cartographic representation : the elements of plan and 

 map reading. 



The terrestrial globe, continents and oceans. 

 Conversations about the home region. 



Intermediate Course (9-11 years). 



Geography of France and its colonies. 



Physical geography. 



Political geography, with more detailed study of the home canton 

 the departement, and the region. 



Exercises in map drawing on the blackboard, and on note books, with- 

 out tracing. 



Advanced Course (11-13 years;. 



Revision and development of the geography of France. 



Physical and political geography of Europe. 



More summary treatment of the geography of the other continents. 



French colonies. 



Map drawing from memory. 



VIII. — Code of Regulations and Reports on Evening Continua- 

 tion Schools, England and Wales and Scotland, (1897). 



Geography. 



General geography of the British Isles, tlieir chief industries and 

 means of communication by land and water. 



General geography of Canada and the United States, or of Europe or 

 Australasia or British India, with special reference in each case to their 

 industries and to their commercial relations with Great Britain. 



Colonisation and the conditions of successful industry in the British 

 possessions generally. 



