Before we started learning about South America for our geography. I knew a couple of things. I knew about the Amazon River and the rain forest. You can't have grown up in the 90s and not heard about the rain forest, and how we were going to DESTROY IT NOW! Fern Gully, evil … [Read more...]
Indonesia Unit
Funny story, a few weeks ago I was having lunch with my Mom and she talked about a news report where someone had gone to Indonesia and come back with lots of clothes. She doubted they had really been there because her memory of Indonesia (from 1979 or 1980) was of all the fabrics … [Read more...]
Cuba Unit
Growing up in the United States my knowledge of Cuba could be summed up in a few phrases or words: cigars, Fidel Castro, Cuban Missile Crisis. For most of those years I didn't even know what the Cuban Missile Crisis was, I just knew it was a thing that happened. My college … [Read more...]
Chile Unit
Just think of all the puns you can make with the country name. What are you doing? Nothing much, just Chile. Actually now that I think about it, they're pretty much all variations on that. So, not lots of puns, just one very versatile pun. That being said, it was a fun geography … [Read more...]
Micronesia Unit
With a name like Micronesia, of course, it's going to be a tiny little country. I have to admit, at first, I thought it wasn't a real country. It sounds like the phrase micro-nations, or micro-countries, but no, it's a real country in Oceania, and so we learned about it in our … [Read more...]
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