Tag: africa
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Eswatini unit
This is a fun country, because when I started our geography lessons it was towards the end of the alphabet, but it changed its name from Swaziland to Eswatini, and so now we have a Eswatini unit and you get to learn all about this African country in our Africa Unit. (there are affiliate links…
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Tunisia Unit
For some reason, Tunisia has always seemed exotic to me. I think it’s because it gets brief mentions in older movies, or they’ll film there to find alien landscapes (cough Star Wars cough cough). Either way, our Tunisia Unit was a great way for me to learn more about Tunisia than the vague memories I…
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Gambia Unit
When I studied the various countries I really should have written a date on the country so I would know what grade to put them in. That is completely unrelated to our Gambia Unit, but I’m staring at my notes and what we did on Gambia and the big thing I’m getting from my notes…
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Gabon Unit
Our Gabon unit wasn’t super long, and I’m sure there is a lot we could have done, but it was an interesting geography lesson. Sorry, this is a super short introduction to the latest addition to our Africa Unit, but after 100 or so country units it becomes hard to create super interesting introductions. (there…
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Democratic Republic of the Congo Unit
The interesting thing about studying Africa is how recently many of these countries have formed, and how poorly country lines were formed. A lot of this is a result of European colonization, and arbitrarily drawing up lines. This causes things like having two countries with the name of Congo in it. Today’s geography lesson is…