South America is in both the Northern and Southern Hemisphere, with the Equator running directly through the continent. The Tropic of Capricorn also runs through South America. The Pacific Ocean ...

Justin Madron’s map of demographic change in the early American South grapples with the movements of enslaved, free, and Indigenous people after America’s founding. For this Behind the Map, Madron, ...

Using a globe, ask pupils to help you find and identify the different countries in South America that the Equator passes through. Use maps and atlases, as well as aerial imagery, to find and talk ...