Tropical Hygiene – AIR Air is the most important thing the body requires. A man can live some days without water, and some weeks without food, but cannot live five minutes with- out air. It is the first necessity of life. Composition.-Air is a gas which is a mixture of …

Into Space – COUNTDOWN I still can’t believe it we won! But here we are at the Global Space Center. Actually, we’ve been here for nearly three months and all because of a little essay. We were the winners of a school competition to write a one thousand word essay …

Makers of Civilization – MOSES (about 1300 B.C.) Many years ago a little boy called Moses was growing up in the palace of Pharaoh, King of Egypt. He was not an Egyptian. His tribe, the Jews, were foreigners who had come to Egypt for food in time of famine. They …

CLIMATE: NATURAL REGIONS It is, of course, impossible to talk about “the climate of Asia” owing to the vast area involved. Before we proceed to divide the land-mass into climate sub-divisions there are certain controlling factors which must be understood because they influence, in varying degrees, the climatic phenomena of …

Arithmetic – PRECOUNTING STAGE Counters on Cards (ii) Knife, razor-blade or scissors, ruler. (i) Cardboard (an old carton will do), 2 colours of paint, paste. Plan Instructions for making Cut out base and paint it in one of the colours. Cut out two sets of counters and paint them in …

Tropical Hygiene – Introduction The subject of Hygiene and Sanitation is a very important one in all countries, but is especially so in tropical ones where the warmth and dampness, together with ignorance of the laws of health, make it easy for disease to spread. do on no vino jon …

Makers of Civilization – The HAMMURABI (2288-2232 B.C.) The man whose story is being told in this chapter lived a very long time ago. He lived near a river, the River Euphrates in the land which was after- wards known as Mesopotamia; but is marked on your maps now as …

RELIEF AND STRUCTURE: DRAINAGE General Characteristics The vast land-mass of Asia dwarfs the other continents in size, as a glance at any world map on an equal area projection will confirm. In latitude it extends from nearly 80° N. to nearly 10° S. (if we include the Indonesian Islands). In …

Classroom Equipping – Introduction It is not uncommon for a teacher, anxious to give of his best, to find difficulty in obtaining the apparatus necessary for modern teaching methods. This book has been written to help teachers in tropical countries who face this problem. By far the greater part of …

Into Space – Introduction It has been thirty years since the first satellite went into orbit and the new Age of Space began. I have seen marvelous feats during this time, and all of us have learned more about the Solar system than we had earlier dreamed it might be …