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 geography lessons.

At some point soon I need to create an Oceania Unit page. I think I might have reached the threshold of enough countries written about for that to make sense…

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Micronesia Unit resources

This tiny little island nation has only a few facts that are in common shared about it.

• 25 Micronesia facts– it’s interesting to me how many times these islands changed hands in just a few centuries for such a little bit of land in what seems to be not important strategically
• Most Interesting Micronesia Facts– I’m loving that these are actually giving me different facts from each other, this does not always happen
• 11 Interesting Micronesia Facts-reading this, I just realized one of the cheesy Christmas movies I’ve watched is about this country

And the Geography Now video:

The interesting thing about watching the Geography Now videos is seeing how he slowly changes the way he looks, and you can tell he’s been doing a lot of working out.

I’m watching the Flag Friday video now, and he mentions Operation Santa, that’s rather amusing.

Micronesia recipe: Chicken Micronesia

I discovered that a small island nation tends to have lots and lots of fish recipes, but none of the fish recipes looked particularly like anyone would like them, AND it tended towards more expensive fish. Finally after searching I found chicken Micronesia recipe.

Ingredients

• 5 chicken breasts
• 1 20-ounce can of pineapple tidbits
• 1/4 cup soy sauce
• 1/2 teaspoon ginger
• 1/4 cup onion minced
• 1/4 cup coconut grated

Let’s make this

1. Drain liquid from the canned pineapple into a mixing bowl, then add the soy sauce and ginger. Stir.
2. Put the chicken in a Ziploc bag and pour the pineapple mixture into the bag. Seal the bag, and leave the chicken to marinate for at least an hour.
3. Put chicken and marinade into the dish. Sprinkle pineapple, onion, and coconut on top of the chicken.
4. Place in oven and bake at 350 degrees for 1.25 hours. Serve on rice.

I knew this wasn’t going to be a big hit. Jeff doesn’t like sweet sauces on meat, and the kids were just going to make fun of the pineapple.

Which is kind of hilarious because their absolute favorite hamburgers have a grilled pineapple slice.

Chicken Micronesia

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Try this sweet and savory chicken with rice for a nice weeknight meal.

Prep Time 5 minutes

Cook Time 1 hour 15 minutes

Additional Time 1 hour

Total Time 2 hours 20 minutes

Ingredients

• 5 chicken breasts
• 1 20-ounce can of pineapple tidbits
• 1/4 cup soy sauce
• 1/2 teaspoon ginger
• 1/4 cup onion minced
• 1/4 cup coconut grated

Instructions

1. Drain liquid from the canned pineapple into a mixing bowl, then add the soy sauce and ginger. Stir.
2. Put the chicken in a Ziploc bag and pour the pineapple mixture into the bag. Seal the bag, and leave the chicken to marinate for at least an hour.
3. Put chicken and marinade into the dish. Sprinkle pineapple, onion, and coconut on top of the chicken.
4. Place in oven and bake at 350 degrees for 1.25 hours. Serve on rice.

Micronesia Unit: notebooking pages

We filled out the Oceania notebooking pages. I didn’t make any extra mini-books to add to the pages. I can’t quite decide if anyone uses them, and my kids don’t like them.

• lots of World War II relics from sunk ships (also super dangerous to sail nearby because of it)
• they use the US dollar for their currency
• they gained independence in 1980s (but there is some discussion as to just how independent they really are)
• they have a legend of twin sorcerers, I forgot to track down that story at the time we studied it, and now I need to go look that up

More random cool things to do

I’m going to randomly pick a bunch of 4th-grade projects to share

• Battle of Hastings lesson
• France Unit
• Landing for planetary landing shuttle
• Inkheart book club
• Legend of the Bluebonnet
• France Wars of Religion

“General Photos: Federated States of Micronesia” by Asian Development Bank is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.