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APPENDIX. 



Schedule II. — Course T>. 'Elementary Science and Geograj>hy combined.' 



Standards I., II., and III. — Annual courses of about thirty object 

 lessons, of which elementary geography should form a part, beginning with 

 the simplest phenomena which the children can observe : — land, water, the 

 form of the earth, the sea, hills, valleys, rivers, proceeding to notions of 

 locality and distance, and the means of representing all of these by 

 modelling in sand or other material, and by a map, with special reference 

 to the map of England. 



The other object lessons should include some of the various subjects 

 suggested in this Schedule under the head of Elementary Science. 



Standard IV. — Geography of England, physical and political. 



Lessons on aramals and on materials used in agriculture, or in some 

 simple manufactures. 



Standard V. — Geography of the British Isles, with some knowledge of 

 India, and one or more of the Colonies. 



Lessons on means of locomotion, and on processes used in agriculture 

 or manufacture. 



Standard YI. — Geography of Europe, physical, political, and com- 

 mercial. 



Lessons on the physical laws that determine climate, animal life, 

 locality of certain industries, itc. 



Standard VII. — The work of the preceding years, with special know- 

 ledge of the British Empire, and of those portions of the world Avith which 

 we are engaged in commerce. 



Distribution of the races of mankind. 



Schedule IV. — Si^ecific Siihjects. (13.) ' Etenuntary Physics and 



Chemistry.' 



1st Stage. — Properties of common stuiFs ; relative density of solids and 

 liquids ; flotation of solids. The barometer and thermometer ; their use ; 

 graphic lepresentation of daily readings. Solution : water as a solvent ; 

 solubility of metals, Arc. in acids ; crystallisation of salt, soda, alum. 



2nd Stage. — Evaporation and distillation ; heat absorbed in fusion of 

 ice and in conversion of water into steam ; density of ice ; change in den- 

 sity of water on heating ; moisture in air ; wet and dry bulb thermometer. 

 Study of iron rusting, and of combustion of candle, gas, oil, phosphorus ; 

 effect on metals of heating in air ; discovery of active constituent of air. 



Zrd Stage. — Chalk and lime ; the burning of chalk or limestone ; action 

 of muriatic acid on chalk or limestone ; carbonic acid ; reformation of 

 chalk. Discovery of carbonic acid in air ; its formation by combustion of 

 carbonaceous materials and in resjsiration. Study of action of muriatic 

 and vitriolic acids on zinc ; combustion of the gas obtained, and discovery 

 of the composition of water. Presence of air and solids dissolved in water ; 

 sea water : hardness of water. 



